Comments on the Report on the Supplementary Session
(January 22, 1952)
To all departments of the Central Military Commission, all leading Party members’ groups of the Central People’s Government; all central bureaus, greater military regions, the Chinese People’s Volunteers, with copies forwarded to sub-bureaus and provincial, municipal, and regional Party committees and provincial military districts:

The problem (bureaucratism) raised by the North China Bureau should be resolved in the course of this Three-Antis struggle, and the results of the resolution shall be reported to the Central Committee.

The Central Committee
January 22

[Note]
This refers to the issue of making up for the missed lesson of combating bureaucratism, raised in the report of the North China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on January 19, 1952, regarding the supplementary session of the Three-Antis movement within the Bureau’s own organs, submitted to Mao Zedong and the Central Committee. The report stated that the Three-Antis movement in the North China Bureau’s organs was originally planned to conclude around the 15th of this month. However, after soliciting opinions from various Party branches, it was discovered that although the majority of staff members had examined themselves relatively deeply and thoroughly during the Three-Antis movement and achieved significant results, they still had opinions about and were dissatisfied with the leadership. They said, “Here we have only two antis” (meaning there was no anti-bureaucratism), and “the leadership has not sufficiently taken the lead in conducting self-examinations at every level.” They were particularly dissatisfied that no examination had been made of the bureaucratism in the administrative leadership of the organs. After studying the matter, we believe the above criticisms are correct. In order to make the Three-Antis movement more thorough and deeper from top to bottom, we have decided to make up for the missed lesson of combating bureaucratism. From members of the Standing Committee, principal and deputy department heads, to division and section chiefs, examinations shall be conducted within different scopes. Subsequently, the Secretary-General shall deliver a report on the examination and on improving the work of the organs, followed by discussions to eliminate everything that should be eliminated and establish the new systems that should be established. Finally, a Party congress shall be convened to bring the Three-Antis movement to a satisfactory conclusion.