Central Commentary on the Post and Telecommunications Department’s Party Group Report on the Three-Anti Campaign (December 11, 1951) To all departments of the Central Committee and the Military Commission, to all Party groups of the Central People’s Government, and to all Central Bureaus, with instructions to forward to branch bureaus, provincial, municipal, and district party committees, as well as to county party committees: We are transmitting one copy of the Three-Anti Report submitted by the Party Group of the Central Post and Telecommunications Department [1]. Given the widespread nature of postal and telecommunications services across the country and the particularly acute problem of corruption therein, this document should be forwarded to the county party committees to draw everyone’s attention to it. The Central Committee December 11, printed from Mao Zedong’s manuscript. Note [1] The Three-Anti Report of the Post and Telecommunications Department’s Party Group, dated December 7, 1951, notes that, in addition to the common types of corruption prevalent in the old society, there are also highly specialized forms of corruption tied to the unique operations of the postal and telecommunications system, which are extremely widespread. The reasons for the proliferation of corruption and degeneration include: first, following national liberation, no broad and in-depth mass movement had yet been organized to combat corruption and waste, coupled with deficiencies in intra-party life and political education, allowing capitalist forces to exploit and corrupt us; second, many county-level post and telecommunication bureaus remained virtually unchanged, with leadership neglecting their renovation and strengthening; and third, a lenient attitude toward punishing corrupt officials—a narrow interpretation of “not easily dismissing personnel” and “avoiding worker unemployment”—has objectively fostered an environment conducive to corruption and moral decay.