Central Committee Comments Forwarding the Sichuan-South Regional Party Committee’s Report on Rectification Campaigns (September 9, 1950) To all Central Bureau Branches, with copies forwarded to provincial and municipal party committees: The following experience from the rectification campaign [1] is highly instructive. All levels—provincial, regional, and county—engaged in rectification must draw upon the Sichuan-South region’s experience, focusing particularly on examining work practices and ensuring policy correctness. Issued by the Central Committee on September 9, based on Mao Zedong’s handwritten draft. Note [1]: Refers to the report submitted by the Southwest Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to the Central Committee on September 4, 1950, conveying the Sichuan-South Regional Party Committee’s account of its rectification efforts. Their key lessons centered on several principles essential for progressively deepening the campaign: 1. Leadership at all levels must demonstrate firm resolve, allocate sufficient time to the rectification process, and not fear temporary disruptions to routine operations. At the same time, democracy should be vigorously promoted to encourage lower-level cadres and the general public to scrutinize leadership, with a particular emphasis on rectifying cadres at or above the section chief level. 2. Leading officials themselves must take direct charge; rectification personnel should be concentrated, and study groups organized according to institutional lines. 3. It is crucial to promptly grasp and analyze the situation, continuously conducting ideological mobilization and providing methodological guidance. 4. Close adherence to the principle of closely integrating rectification with the summarization of work is necessary, so as to prevent the campaign from dissipating energy on trivial personal matters or other deviations. At the outset of the rectification drive, responsible comrades in each unit must deliver a clear report outlining their anti-bureaucratic stance based on the review of past work, thereby providing a definite direction for everyone to follow—namely, to connect their own self-examination with an assessment of policies and leadership. 4£¹