Central Committee Telegram to Bo Yibo and Liu Lantao\[1\] Regarding the Supplementary Report on the Handling of Major Embezzlement Offenders (December 1, 1951)

Comrades Bo Yibo and Liu Lantao:

We have received your report dated November 28 concerning embezzlement cases discovered in North China. In this report, you did not mention how the Party and the government dealt with those major embezzlement offenders. Please provide us with a supplementary report on the handling of these cases, specifically: what criminal penalties were imposed on such major embezzlement offenders as Zhao Cheng, Secretary of the Taiyuan Municipal District Committee; Ren Hua, District Head; the person in charge of the Tangshan Municipal Grain Company (name not given in the report); Zhao Zengfei, Manager of the Xushui County Bank, Hebei Province; Zhang Jincai, County Head of Jiaocheng, Shanxi Province; Liu Zhiyu, Director of the Tianjin Office of the Liaodong Industrial Department; Zhao Yiru, Deputy Chief of the Storage Section, Shanxi Communications Bureau; Li Jinwu, Political Commissar of the Automobile School, Logistics Department, North China Military Region; and the person in charge of the Northwest Group, Hebei Provincial Supply and Marketing Cooperative (name not given in the report). Submit a supplementary report to us.

Central Committee
December 1, 1951

Printed from Mao Zedong's manuscript.

**Note**
\[1\] Bo Yibo was then serving as First Secretary of the North China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. Liu Lantao was then serving as Third Secretary of the North China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.