February 5, 1952
To the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, with notice to the East China Bureau and all comrades:

Your report of 21:00 on February 2 has been received. Your understanding and approach are basically correct.

You stated that in Zhejiang Province there may be over one thousand large and small tigers, numbering more than one thousand. This figure serves as a good initial estimate, and it should be gradually increased in the future. In a province like Zhejiang, which encompasses the five levels of province, prefecture, county, district, and township, and the five spheres of Party, government, military, civilian, and academic affairs, there may be two thousand to three thousand large, medium, and small tigers, or perhaps even more. This does not yet include those in the social industrial and commercial circles.

Mao Zedong
February 5

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Refers to the second comprehensive report on the Three-Anti Movement submitted by the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee on February 2, 1952. The report stated: Based on the development of the Three-Anti Movement in Zhejiang Province, we have clearly defined the Three-Anti struggle as the overriding central task of all Party committees at every level at present. Except for ensuring that spring agricultural production is attended to under the principle of not missing the farming season, the leadership’s energy must be concentrated, without excuse, on steering the Three-Anti Movement. At the same time, in order to promptly grasp the situation in various localities and strengthen leadership, the Provincial Committee has decided that each committee member shall take charge of one prefectural or municipal committee, implementing guidance by category to ensure the steady and healthy development of the movement. For the Three-Anti Movement at and below the county level, before the conclusion of the movement in the prefectural Party committees and special administrative offices, and under circumstances where the prefectural Party committees’ leadership cannot fully attend to it, the movement must be advanced steadily and must not be ignited everywhere. To this end, it is proposed that the initiation and conclusion of the Three-Anti Movement in each county must obtain the approval of the prefectural Party committee, and the conclusion of the Three-Anti Movement at the prefectural level must obtain the approval of the Provincial Committee. Regarding the Five-Anti Movement in industrial and commercial circles, as the struggle is more complex, we lack experience, and given that the Three-Anti Movement is currently at an intense stage, we have decided to adopt a policy of steady progress.