Telegram from the CPC Central Committee to Stalin on the CPSU’s Experience in Setting Up Central Organs (June 20, 1952) Comrade Filippov [1]: Since economic construction is about to become the central task of our country, we intend to immediately draw upon the experience of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) to strengthen our Party’s central organs [2]. To this end, we would like Comrade Zhang Wentian and a comrade designated by you to hold discussions so that he may gain an understanding of the CPSU Central Committee’s experience in this regard. We kindly request your permission for Comrade Zhang Wentian and the Soviet comrade you designate to conduct such talks. Most grateful! Mao Zedong June 20, 1952 Printed according to the revised text. Notes [1] Filippov was Stalin’s code name. [ ] The CPC Central Committee’s telegram of June 20, 1952, to Zhang Wentian, China’s Ambassador to the Soviet Union, stated: “Since economic construction is about to become the central task of our country, the central organs of the Party and the government must be strengthened. The Central Committee plans to transfer the secretaries of the various Central Bureaus and certain other cadres to work at the central level, and it also intends to establish the CPC Central Committee’s organs by drawing on the experience of the CPSU Central Committee. To this end,