Circular of the Central Committee Forwarding An Ziwen's [1] Report on the Current Situation of Party Consolidation and Party Building with Annotations (February 9, 1953)

To all Central Bureaus, Sub-bureaus, and to be forwarded to Provincial and Municipal Party Committees:

The Central Committee approves Comrade An Ziwen's report to the Central Committee on February 7, 1952, regarding the current situation of Party consolidation and Party building [2], and hereby issues this report to all Central Bureaus, Sub-bureaus, and Provincial and Municipal Party Committees for compliance and implementation. The Central Committee considers the opinions and methods proposed in the report to be correct.

Printed by the Central Committee on February 9, based on Mao Zedong's manuscript.

Annotations:

[1] An Ziwen, then Deputy Director of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee.

[2] An Ziwen's report on the current situation of Party consolidation and Party building stated that in the second half of 1952, new Party members were recruited nationwide according to plan in areas with no Party organizations or very few Party members. Currently, in the newly liberated areas after land reform, about one-third of the townships in general provinces have established branches, and in the relatively well-developed Sunan area, 70% of the townships have established branches. In state-owned and private industrial and mining enterprises with more than 500 people nationwide, and in colleges and universities above the specialized level, basic-level Party organizations have been established. This has not only strengthened the Party's leadership in these areas, but also, through propaganda and education, enhanced the broad masses' understanding of the Party, thereby strengthening the enthusiasm and initiative of non-Party masses and promoting various tasks. In the future, it is still necessary to strengthen Party building in areas where Party work is weak, such as economic and enterprise departments in state organs, and certain cultural and health departments.

Regarding rural Party consolidation work, the report stated that the first batch of 40,000 branches consolidated in various places have been successively completed, and some places have begun the second batch of Party consolidation. The main problems existing in rural Party consolidation work are that some places have not well implemented the Party's policies, there are "Left" deviations in opposing Party members' exploitative behavior, there are tendencies of impatience and formalism in organizing mutual aid and cooperation, and there are phenomena of being excessively lenient or excessively harsh in the examination and handling of Party members. It is planned to pay attention to correcting these in the second batch of Party consolidation. In addition, in this rural Party consolidation, various places have selected a group of full-time organizers. These cadres are mostly better Party cadres who have been selected and trained, and have been tempered by a period of Party consolidation work. It is recommended that after the completion of the rural Party consolidation task, these cadres should not be assigned other work, but should be concentrated by the Central Bureau or Provincial Party Committee for half a year or a year of study to continue to improve them, and then assign them to work in areas or departments where Party work is weak.