Transmitted with the East China Bureau’s Remarks on the “Tiger-Hunting” Quota (February 11, 1952) To all Central Bureaus, Military Area Commands, and the Chinese People’s Volunteers, with further circulation to Sub-bureaus, provincial and municipal Party committees, regional Party committees, and military area commands at all levels:  In its directive of February 8 to the Party committees under its jurisdiction, the East China Bureau stipulated that the entire East China region was to apprehend 5,000 major tigers and 20,000 minor ones, excluding district and township levels, the armed forces, and the industrial and commercial sectors; the target applied solely to Party, government, mass organizations, and economic and financial enterprises at the county level and above. This represents the highest tiger-hunting quota among all major administrative regions nationwide. As of today, no other major administrative region has a quota comparable to that of East China. The East China Bureau regards its plan as “merely a rough estimate and a preliminary requirement,” and it intends to increase the quota at any time in light of developments. This plan of East China serves as a model for all Central Bureaus, Sub-bureaus, provincial and municipal Party committees, and military area Party committees: they must overcome the right-leaning tendency among cadres to underestimate the number of major corrupt officials and, based on their own circumstances, raise their respective tiger-hunting quotas. The East China Military Area Command’s plan to apprehend 1,000 major tigers is likewise the highest among all military area commands nationwide. The points made in the East China Bureau’s document—that cases of tiger hunting not completed in February be postponed until March, and that the Three-Anti Campaign at the district and township levels should not interfere with agricultural work—are both correct.

Printed from Mao Zedong’s manuscript, February 11.