After resolving many issues concerning agricultural mutual aid and cooperation, the CPC Central Committee deemed it necessary repeatedly to draw the attention of party committees at all levels, all cadres working in rural areas, and non-party activists to the need fully, enthusiastically, and without any barriers to care for, assist, and patiently educate individual farmers. It must be acknowledged that their independent farming is lawful—as stipulated in the Common Program and the Land Reform Law—without mocking them or denouncing them as backward, and under no circumstances should threatening or restrictive measures be used to suppress them.
Agricultural loans must be reasonably extended to both mutual aid organizations and individual farmers; it is inappropriate to grant loans solely to mutual aid organizations while denying or severely limiting such credit to individual farmers.
Even in a village where the vast majority of peasants have joined mutual aid teams or cooperatives, leaving only a small minority of individual farmers, a respectful and united attitude toward this minority should still be adopted.
Printed from Mao Zedong’s manuscript.
Note [1]: This passage was added by Mao Zedong when he was reviewing the draft of the CPC Central Committee’s Resolution on Agricultural Production Mutual Aid and Cooperation. The resolution was issued in draft form to party committees at all levels for trial implementation on December 15, 1951. On February 15, 1953, the CPC Central Committee issued a notice making the draft resolution an official resolution.