The Struggle Against Bureaucratism. Those in whose subordinate organs, units, organizations, schools, or enterprises serious instances of corruption or waste occur, yet who fail to detect them beforehand and fail to impose strict punishment afterward, shall be designated as serious elements of bureaucratism. Such serious elements of bureaucratism, even if they did not personally participate in acts of corruption or waste, shall still be held accountable for dereliction of duty and shall by no means be pardoned.

In order to vigorously and thoroughly eliminate the phenomena of corruption, waste, and bureaucratism, it is necessary to commend those model units and individuals who do not engage in corruption, do not waste, and are entirely free from the habits of bureaucratism, and to draw a clear line between these units and individuals and those who engage in corruption, waste, and bureaucratism.

This Decision shall be transmitted down to the Party’s prefectural committees and the army’s corps Party committees. When provincial Party committees or prefectural Party committees convene meetings attended by county Party committee personnel, when municipal Party committees of large cities convene meetings attended by district Party committee personnel, and when provincial military districts or corps Party committees convene meetings attended by personnel at the military sub-district and regimental level and above, this Decision shall be distributed to them for reading. It is best to organize collective reading and to explain to them any questions they raise. Other cadres at levels equivalent to county Party committees, regimental Party committees, and district Party committees of large cities shall all be given the opportunity to read it (using the method of collective reading), but unreliable elements must not be allowed to read it, it must not be published in any periodical, and it must not be lost. In order to ensure that the basic principles and various measures of this Decision are fully implemented, it is imperative to explain them to cadres with tireless thoroughness, so that they clearly understand the overall situation and the importance of the task.