Central Committee Directive Transmitting the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications Party Group’s Report on the Three-Anti Campaign
(11 December 1951)

To all departments of the Central Military Commission and the Military Council,
All Party groups of the Central People’s Government, all Central Bureaus, and please forward to sub-bureaus, provincial, municipal, and regional Party committees, prefectural Party committees, and county Party committees:

The report of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications Party Group on opposing corruption, waste, and bureaucracy is hereby issued to you. Since postal and telecommunications services extend throughout the country and the problem of corruption is very serious, this document should be forwarded down to county Party committees to draw everyone’s attention to it.

Central Committee
11 December
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The 7 December 1951 three-anti report of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications Party Group pointed out that, in addition to the types of corruption cases commonly found in the old society, the postal and telecommunications system also had specialised corruption cases linked to specific professional operations, and such cases were extremely widespread. The reasons for the growth of corruption and degeneration were: first, after nationwide liberation, the campaign against corruption and waste had not yet developed into a broad and deep-going mass movement, and in addition, inner-Party life and political education were unsound, allowing capitalism to lure and corrode us in turn; second, many county post and telecommunications offices had remained largely untouched, and the leadership neglected the transformation and strengthening of county offices; third, a lenient attitude was adopted toward the punishment of corruption offenders, coupled with a one-sided interpretation of the notions that “people should not be dismissed lightly” and that “we must not create unemployment among workers,” which objectively helped to foster an atmosphere of corruption and degeneration.