Notice of the Central Committee on Issuing the Draft Resolution on Mutual-Aid and Cooperative Production in Agriculture [1] (December 15, 1951) To all Central Bureaus, with transmission to Sub-bureaus and Party Committees of Provinces, Municipalities, and Autonomous Regions:  (1) We are hereby sending you one copy of the draft resolution on mutual-aid and cooperative production in agriculture [2]. Please circulate it to county and district Party committees. Immediately begin explaining this draft both within and outside the Party and organize its implementation. This is to be explained and implemented in all areas where land reform has already been completed; please treat it as a major undertaking. The draft resolution may be published in Party publications, but should not be printed in non-Party newspapers or periodicals, as it remains a draft.  (2) This draft has undergone certain revisions compared with the one distributed in October for some comrades to take back; please recall and invalidate the October draft.  Issued by the Central Committee on December 15, 1951, based on Mao Zedong’s handwritten manuscript. It has been abridged and included in Volume V of the Selected Works of Mao Zedong.  Notes [1] “Liu,” — On this notice drafted by Mao Zedong for the CPC Central Committee, he also wrote: “Zhu, Zhou, Chen Boda, Peng Zhen, Qiao Mu have reviewed it. Please Shangkun circulate it to all Central Bureaus and instruct them to forward it further, without using telegrams. Also distribute it in Beijing to all members and alternate members of the Central Committee, to the various ministries and commissions of the Central Committee, and to the leading Party groups of the government.”

[2] Refers to the CPC Central Committee’s draft resolution dated December 15, 1951, on mutual-aid and cooperative production in agriculture. During his review of the draft, Mao Zedong added two sentences. First, at the point where the resolution states, “It is necessary to put forward a patriotic slogan in the countryside so that farmers’ production can be combined with the state’s requirements,” Mao added, “It would be wrong to advance the slogan of ‘getting rich’ in a one-sided manner.” Second, where the resolution mentions, “State-owned farms should be promoted to play their role as models and to provide technical assistance and guidance to mutual-aid teams and cooperatives,” Mao appended, “In places where farmers fully consent and where machinery is available, a small number of collective farms of a socialist character may also be tried—for example, one to several per province—in order to gain experience and serve as examples for the peasantry.”