Comrade Xiao Hua:

It is very good to go down in groups for inspection. However, the duration of one month to one and a half months for each group's inspection seems too long. It would be appropriate to return and report after half a month to twenty days, and then go for another inspection after a few months. Taking a one-and-a-half-month period as an example, it could be divided into three trips, with half a month each time being entirely sufficient. By plane, train, or car, one can see many places in half a month.

Xiao Hua, then Deputy Director of the General Political Department of the People's Revolutionary Military Commission.

[2] Refers to Xiao Hua's report to Mao Zedong and Peng Dehuai on March 5, 1953, regarding sending cadres deep into the troops for inspection work. The report stated that in order to implement the Central Committee's directive against bureaucracy, it was planned to adopt the method of sending cadres deep into the troops in batches for inspection work, so as to promote this campaign throughout the entire army. The first batch of personnel from the General Political Department for inspection work was divided into five groups, with each group's inspection duration set at one month to one and a half months. The focus of inspection was on the main forces of each military region and cultural education work.