(2) Regarding the individuals mentioned in Item 1 of Article 4 of the report who “utilized democratic personages to win battles”—who are these people, what are their full names, and how did they utilize democratic personages to fight battles? Please provide a supplementary report. Such individuals have already forfeited their stance as serious Communists, and must be given necessary disciplinary punishment within the Party according to the severity of their circumstances. Please deliberate and decide on the punishment measures (inviting the individuals concerned to participate) and report to the Central Committee for examination and approval.

(3) Regarding the Party members mentioned in Item 2 of Article 4 of the report who adopted a liberalist attitude toward the Three-Anti Campaign—who are these people, and what are their full names? Please provide a supplementary report. For such individuals, a time limit (for example, ten days) should be set, requiring them to comply with the Central Committee’s resolution and seriously mobilize the masses to launch the struggle against corruption, waste, and bureaucracy. Otherwise, they shall be removed from office. If the individual concerned has actual evidence of corruption, they must also be expelled from the Party; serious cases shall be sent to court for punishment.

(4) Regarding the democratic personages mentioned in Item 3 of Article 4 of the report who wanted only “one anti” and not the other “two antis”—who are these people, and what are their full names? Please provide a supplementary report.

(5) The other parts of the report are all approved.

Mao Zedong
December 30, 1951

Directive to All Work Departments to Submit Three-Anti Reports to the Chairman of the Central Committee and the Chairman of the Military Commission
(December 30, 1951)

To all departments of the Central Military Commission,
All leading Party groups of the Central People’s Government; all Central Bureaus, with copies to sub-bureaus and provincial, municipal, and district Party committees; all greater military regions, with copies to the Second and Third Military Regions; the Chinese People’s Volunteers:

(1) All work departments at the three levels—the central level, the greater administrative area level, and the provincial and municipal level—for example, the Propaganda Department and Organization Department of the Party, the Ministry of Finance (departments or bureaus) and the Ministry of Public Security (departments or bureaus) of the government, the headquarters and logistics departments of the military regions, plus all mass organizations (except that each mass organization need only submit a general report, not reports from its various departments), all work departments without exception shall separately submit reports on the struggle against corruption, waste, and bureaucracy to the Chairman of the Central Committee and the Chairman of the Military Commission. Those government departments that cooperate with non-Party personages in leadership work shall submit reports in the name of the Party leading group. During the first four months of 1952, one report must be submitted each month, so that the Central Committee may make comparisons and see which leading comrades at various levels are active and diligent in this serious struggle, and which are passive and negligent (the reasons for passivity and negligence: one is that the leaders have bureaucratism, another is that the leaders’ hands are not clean), in order to implement rewards and punishments. Those who do not submit reports shall be considered as violating discipline; those who must delay the submission of reports shall state their reasons. Party committees at all levels shall bear the responsibility of supervision over these reports.

(2) For the rest, follow the telegram of December 4 at 20:00. [1]

[1] Refers to the directive of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China dated December 4, 1951, concerning the approval and transmission of the Beijing Municipal Committee’s report on launching the anti-corruption struggle.