Comment on the Department of Health Care
(1953)

Source: Quanwudi, 17 June 26, 1967), 2. Available English Translation:

According to Quanwudi, this criticism was made in Mao's comments on a report sub-
Mitted by the Department of Health Care, It is directed against the leadership of that
ment under He Cheng, who was the secretary of the First Party Group of that

em were made against Liu Shaogi for indulging He's behavior. See text Oct.

\\’s a total mess. There is no visible political leadership; nor can there be

any earnest professional or technical leadership. . . .

1} is a department without leadership, without political awareness, a
ent that does not even manage its professional [duties] in earnest. . ..
It is a bureaucratic office where people specialize in eating and ;
as an officer and a lord and master. . ., This is utterly intolerable. __ jn)
rent struggle against bureaucratism, [we must] tear away [their] mag}
pletely overthrow these [organs], change their appearance, and esp,
their place organs that are truly capable of achieving some work,
--- Notes

1. and who directed its work from 1949 to 1955. In the same article,