Letter to Zhong Zhigang[1]
(December 8, 1951)
Mr. Zhigang:
Your letter has been received. My sincere thanks. This is my reply. I wish you
good health and well-being.
Mao Zedong
December 8, 1951
[1] Zhong Zhigang (1890–1956), a native of Shaobei Village, Shaoshan Township, Shaoshan City, Hunan Province, was a farmer. He was Mao Zedong’s classmate at the old-style private school. During the Great Revolution period, he participated in the peasant movement in Shaoshan.

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Central Committee’s Comments Transmitting Luo Ruiqing’s[1] Report on Launching the Three-Antis Struggle in the Public Security System
(December 9, 1951)
All departments of the Central Committee and the Military Commission, all leading Party members’ groups under the Central People’s Government; all Central Bureaus, and please forward immediately to sub-bureaus and provincial, municipal, and district Party committees; all Greater Military Regions, forward to Party committees at all levels of military regions; the Party Committee of the Chinese People’s Volunteers:
(1) The Central Committee approves Comrade Luo Ruiqing’s report of December 8, 1951, on launching the struggle against corruption, waste, and bureaucracy within the Ministry of Public Security of the Central People’s Government and the entire public security system, and considers this report to be correct.
(2) Party committees at all levels must strictly guide public security organs at all levels in launching this struggle on a grand scale, with the force of a thunderbolt, and openly.
(3) This report shall be distributed directly down to the county and regiment levels, and shall be published in internal Party journals.
(4) The Central Committee has decided: The Party organizations of all departments of the Central Committee, all departments of the Military Commission, and all departments of the Central People’s Government shall, without exception, convene a Party congress at least once a year to review the Party’s work, promote achievements, correct mistakes, support healthy trends, strike down evil influences, and elect Party committees. In the current period, with regard to correcting mistakes and striking down evil influences, emphasis should be placed on launching the struggle against corruption, waste, and bureaucracy.
Almost three years have passed since we occupied the cities, yet most departments have still not convened their first Party congress. All should complete this within a short period. Thereafter, the three major systems—Party, government, and military—shall separately convene their Party congresses. Such congresses are also to be held under the leadership of the General Party Committee directly under the Central Committee at least once a year (the Party Congress directly under the Central Committee
[1] Luo Ruiqing, then serving as Minister of Public Security of the Central People’s Government.