Central Committee's Comments Transmitting the Beijing Municipal Committee's Report on the Rectification Work
(July 21, 1950)

To all central bureaus, sub-bureaus, and forward to all major municipal committees, provincial committees, and district party committees:

Hereby transmit a copy of the Beijing Municipal Committee's report on the Party-wide rectification work for your reference. We believe that many of the experiences [1] contained therein are worth adopting, either wholly or partially, by provincial committees and district party committees, especially those in large and medium-sized cities.

Central Committee
July 21

[1] Refers to the proposed measures put forward in the report by Peng Zhen, Secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, on July 18, 1950, regarding Beijing's rectification work plan. The main points include: (1) Leading cadres should take personal responsibility and direct involvement, emphasizing the integration of the leading core with the masses. (2) Work summaries and reviews of ideology and work style in all units should generally be conducted through and rely on the leading organs of the respective organizations. Higher levels must strengthen leadership but guard against monopolizing tasks, substituting for lower levels, or unnecessarily bypassing organizational structures. (3) Using people's congress meetings to review work and examine the conduct of personnel is a correct and highly effective method. (4) The focus of rectification is to summarize work from the top down, reviewing the implementation of the Central Committee's policies and directives, lessons learned, and work styles. Regarding cadre work style, higher levels should primarily examine bureaucratism, while middle and lower levels should primarily examine commandism. In terms of cooperation with non-Party figures, the focus should be on examining tendencies toward closed-doorism and neglect of united front work. (5) In the rectification of government and mass organization systems, work summaries must uniformly be reviewed in accordance with the Common Program and the policies and decrees of the Central People's Government. Party and non-Party cadres should be treated equally. However, when reviewing individual ideology and work style, distinctions should be made between Party and non-Party personnel, especially democratic personages. Non-Party cadres should not be judged by Party member standards, and the rectification study of democratic personages should be entirely voluntary.