Central Committee’s Transmittal of the North China Bureau’s Work Plan for 1952, with Comments
(November 16, 1951)

To all Central Bureaus, with copies to sub-bureaus and provincial, municipal, and regional Party committees:

The report dated November 13 from the North China Bureau to the Central Committee [1] is hereby issued to you for study, to serve as a reference in formulating your own work plans. The Central Committee considers the guiding principles set forth in this report to be correct. The Central Committee hopes that each Central Bureau itself, and in guiding its subordinate sub-bureaus and all provincial, municipal, and regional Party committees, will, in accordance with the Central Committee’s principles and local conditions and following the example of the North China Bureau, draw up a concise and clear work outline for 1952, report it by telegram to the Central Committee and the Central Bureau for approval and implementation, and further hopes that the formulation of such work outlines will not be later than December 20 of this year.

Central Committee
November 16, 1951

(Printed from Mao Zedong’s manuscript.)

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**Notes**

[1] Refers to the report of November 13, 1951, from Bo Yibo, First Secretary of the North China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and Liu Lantao, Third Secretary, to Mao Zedong and the Central Committee, concerning the situation at the enlarged meeting of the North China Bureau and the work plan for 1952. The report states that the meeting conveyed the decisions of the enlarged meeting of the Central Political Bureau, discussed the work outline for 1952, and addressed four issues—shifting the leadership focus to industry, further raising agricultural production, and practicing streamlining and economizing while opposing waste—and adopted corresponding documents. The meeting decided: (1) In conjunction with the rectification campaign this winter and next spring, carry out ideological education on increasing production and practicing economy, opposing corruption, opposing waste, and opposing bourgeois influence. (2) The North China Bureau, provincial Party committees, and Party committees of municipalities under provincial jurisdiction shall, from now on, further and explicitly shift the focus of their leadership to industrial production. (3) While the focus of the North China Party’s work shifts to industry, leadership over agricultural and handicraft production must by no means be relaxed. Provincial Party committees must still attach importance to leading agricultural and handicraft production; prefectural and county Party committees, while devoting a certain amount of effort to strengthening leadership over handicraft production, must devote the greatest effort to leading agricultural production. (4) Regarding Party consolidation and rectification, a special meeting is to be convened to make arrangements. (5) As some areas in the North China provinces and Inner Mongolia are disaster-stricken, Party committees and governments at all levels must pay sustained attention to disaster relief work over a long period, ensuring that no one starves to death and no one freezes to death. The work outline for 1952 mainly includes ten items of work: resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea; urban work; agricultural production; streamlining and economizing, opposing extravagance and waste, and opposing corruption; suppressing counterrevolutionaries and continuing to ban the imperialist-controlled “Madonna Sect”; Party consolidation, Party building, and rectification; training cadres and running Party schools well; strengthening people’s congresses; propaganda and education; and the united front.