Central Commentary on the Railway Ministry’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 and provincial, municipal, and district party committees where railways are present (no forwarding required in areas without rail service): (1) We are transmitting one copy of the Three-Anti Report submitted by the Party Group of the Central Railway Ministry [1] for your reference. This report is well written and worthy of careful study. (2) You are requested to urge your subordinate units, using a time-limited reporting requirement, to advance this campaign. The Central Committee December 11, printed from Mao Zedong’s manuscript. Note [1] The Three-Anti Report of the Railway Ministry’s Party Group, dated December 7, 1951, provides a detailed analysis of corruption and waste within the railway system and resolves to initiate an anti-corruption drive as part of the broader campaign to increase production and practice economy. The report emphasizes that this campaign should deliver a severe blow to corruption and major corrupt elements, expose waste on a large scale, conduct public education against capitalist ideology among the masses, teach them to safeguard state property, strictly delineate the boundaries between public and private interests, and cultivate a new moral outlook that despises corruption and waste. Through these efforts, the railway workforce is to be further ideologically rectified, laying a solid foundation for the campaign to increase production and practice economy. The specific measures are as follows: 1. Establishing production and economy committees at various levels to lead the anti-corruption struggle; 2. Identifying and publicizing typical cases for educational purposes; 3. Mobilizing the masses extensively, encouraging corrupt elements to confess voluntarily, combining self-confession with denunciations by others; 4. Deploying core organizational inspection teams in conjunction with other efforts.