Telegram to Tao Zhu Regarding Land Reform and Other Tasks
(January 30, 1951)

Comrade Tao Zhu, with information to the Guangxi Provincial Committee,
the Central-South Bureau, and Ye, Fang: [1] [2]

Your telegram of January 27 [3] has been read. The arrangements are very appropriate; proceed accordingly. After the Forty-Fifth Army is transferred away in March, Guangxi will still have the Forty-Ninth Army, the Twenty-First Corps, and local forces. It is imperative to completely eliminate all bands of bandits and hidden bandits, capture all bandit chieftains, and confiscate all illegal firearms. Where cadres are insufficient, draw large numbers of cadres from the Forty-Ninth Army, the Twenty-First Corps, and local forces to cooperate with local cadres. Adopt the method of assuming full responsibility for designated areas, dividing up the regions and seeing the tasks through to the end. The complete set of work—suppressing bandits, clearing out bandits, confiscating firearms, capturing and executing bandit chieftains, local tyrants, and secret agents, reducing rent, returning deposits, and proceeding all the way to land distribution, establishing political power, and setting up local armed forces—must all be accomplished before the mission can be considered fulfilled. To fulfill this mission, all military units must be unified under the leadership of the provincial and prefectural party committees, implementing unified leadership. Comrade Zhang Yunyi [4] has now gone to Guangzhou to recuperate. It is proposed that Tao Zhu act as provincial party secretary and not return to Wuhan, or come back to report once and then immediately proceed to Guangxi. In short, Guangxi is extremely important, and the work must be done well. Whether the above proposal is appropriate, please have the Central-South Bureau consider and telegraph a reply.

Mao Zedong
January 30

[1] Tao Zhu, then a member of the Standing Committee of the Central-South Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Political Department of the Central-South Military Region of the People's Liberation Army, was dispatched to Guangxi to assist in bandit suppression work.
[2] Ye refers to Ye Jianying, then First Secretary of the South China Sub-Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. Fang refers to Fang Fang, then Third Secretary of the South China Sub-Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.
[3] Refers to Tao Zhu's report of January 27, 1951, to the Central-South Bureau, forwarded to Mao Zedong, regarding the deployment of bandit suppression in Guangxi.
[4] Zhang Yunyi, then Second Secretary of the South China Sub-Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the CPC Guangxi Provincial Committee.