Comments on the Report Regarding the Budget for National Defense Construction [l]
(October 18, 1952)
Make every effort to reallocate expenditures within this year’s military budget; do not seek an increase in the overall budget.
Mao Zedong
October 18
Chuan
In its report dated October 15, 1952, submitted to the Central Military Commission, the General Logistics Department of the People’s Revolutionary Military Commission stated that the 1952 budget for national defense construction required an additional allocation of more than 55 billion yuan and requested central approval to draw these funds from the state fiscal budget.