Central Committee's Comment Transmitting the Southwest Bureau's Report on Launching the Three-Anti Struggle
To be published in periodicals so that cadres at the section chief level and above have the opportunity to read it. The Southwest Bureau points out that the reason past anti-corruption struggles achieved very little effect was that they were not launched with great fanfare as a universal movement like the suppression of counterrevolutionaries, and failed to form powerful social opinion and mass might. This is entirely correct. The six measures stipulated by the Southwest Bureau are also correct.

Central Committee
December 17

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Comment Transmitting Xiao Hua's[1] Report on Implementing Austerity and Economy and Launching the Three-Anti Struggle in the General Political Department
(December 17, 1951)
To the General Staff Department of the Military Commission, the General Cadres Department, the General Logistics Department, all special forces commands, with copies to the General Political Department, all central departments, all Party groups of the Central People's Government, all greater military regions, and the Chinese People's Volunteers:

Comrade Xiao Hua's report of December 16 on the analysis and arrangements for implementing austerity and economy and the struggle against corruption, waste, and bureaucracy within the General Political Department[2] is, in my opinion, correct. This report is hereby forwarded to you for reference. All departments that have not yet conducted such analysis and arrangements should do so and report to the Central Committee.

Mao Zedong
December 17

[1] Xiao Hua, then Deputy Director of the General Political Department of the People's Revolutionary Military Commission.
[2] Xiao Hua's report on launching the austerity and economy campaign and the Three-Anti Struggle in the General Political Department analyzed problems in the General Political Department's staffing, corruption, waste, and bureaucracy, and proposed a plan to reduce departmental personnel and preliminary measures for implementing economy. These measures included merging housing, offices, mess units, and vehicle use; strictly regulating the procedures for operational expenditures; caring for state property; and economizing on office supplies. The report proposed that this movement be integrated with the current Party rectification study within the department. On the basis of studying documents, leading cadres should take the lead in conducting criticism and self-criticism from top to bottom, promoting democracy, carrying out inspections, and then formulating economy plans from individuals to departments.