New Year's Day Message
(January 1, 1952)

May all of us — functionaries of the People’s Government, commanders and
Soldiers of the People’s Volunteers and the People's Liberation Army,
[members of the] various democratic parties, people’s organizations, minority
Nationalities, and people of the entire country — be victorious on all fronts in
Our work!’

: May we be victorious on the front to resist United States [aggression] and to
aid Korea!

May we be victorious on the national defense front!

May we be victorious on the land reform front!”

May we be victorious on the front of suppressing counterrevolutionaries!

y We win victories on the economic and financial fronts!
4Y we be victorious on the cultural and educational fronts!
ra 4Y we be victorious on the front of the ideological transformation of the
the} ing Social circles, first and foremost [the ideological transformation of
intellectuals!”
ie also like to wish for victory on a newly opened front, that is, a
the ies cad against corruption, waste, and bureaucratism, which all
ty. 5; ple in the country and functionaries [in the organizations} of our coun-
View, 8S UP as one, are called upon to launch with a great deal of fanfare,
Usly and resolutely, so as to cleanse away the the filth and poison left

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over from the old society!”
Comrades, in 1951 we won victories on all the above-mentioned fj
and many of these victories were very great ones. [hope that through ou
certed efforts we will be able to attain even greater victories in these aye
work in 1952.
Long live the People's Republic of China!

Notes

I, See text Oct, 8, 1950(2), note 1, text Sept. 21, 1949, note 1, and text Oct 1, 1949), ay
2, See text Feb, 18, 1951, note 2.
3. See text Oct. 23, 1951, note 7.
4. See text Nov. 1951-Mar. 1952.