Words Added to the Report Forwarded by the Central Committee and to the Draft Directive
(April 7 and 11, 1960)

This document (2) is to be sent immediately to Comrades Xiaoping and Peng Zhen for perusal and handling.

Mao Zedong
April 7, 7:00 AM
Return to Mao after use.

If in some places the Three-Antis Campaign is already underway, and care is taken that it does not hinder production or is even conducive to its promotion, you may decide to proceed with it as is.

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The draft directive of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China forwarding the Jilin Provincial Party Committee’s report on deploying the "Three-Antis" issue, drafted by Deng Xiaoping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPC and Vice Premier of the State Council, on April 7, 1960, stated: "The Central Committee believes that Jilin

Comments on the Jilin Provincial Party Committee’s Report and Words Added to the Central Committee’s Draft Directive
Provincial Party Committee’s opinion merits attention. Achieving an excellent harvest in all provinces and regions nationwide this year is a matter of great importance, and all other work should take care not to hinder agricultural production.
Therefore, the Party committees of all provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions are requested, like the Jilin Provincial Party Committee, to earnestly consider the timing for carrying out the rural 'Three-Antis' movement, and strive to place this movement in the intervals between busy farming seasons. If spring plowing is currently at its busiest,
in order to enable cadres to concentrate their energies on leading production, the movement may be postponed until after the busy farming season, while in the coming months only conduct pilot tests to accumulate experience." Following this, Mao Zedong added one sentence, which is Part Two of this text.
On April 11, 1960, the Central Committee of the CPC issued this directive.

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Refers to the request for instructions report on deploying the "Three-Antis" issue submitted by the Jilin Provincial Party Committee of the CPC to the Central Committee on April 2, 1960. The report stated: Our province’s six-level cadres’ conference shifted to discussing work style issues on April 1. Judging from the preliminary exposures, the phenomena of corruption, waste, and bureaucracy among the cadres of the people’s communes are quite serious. We plan to gather the already exposed materials and immediately launch the "Three-Antis" at the conference as the starting point of this rectification movement.
At present, spring plowing has already begun across the province. Our province has a short frost-free period, and timely early planting is the key to determining the agricultural harvest, requiring the utmost urgency. Given that the "Three-Antis," especially the anti-corruption issue, requires concentrated leadership, mass mobilization, and meticulous work, if it is spread out during the spring plowing period, it will be difficult for county and commune leadership to attend to both production and rectification. Therefore, the Provincial Party Committee discussed and intends, after the conclusion of the six-level cadres’ conference, to first concentrate efforts on spring plowing and sowing work, mobilize and organize provincial, prefectural, county, and commune cadres to go to the countryside and the fields, and through participating in, leading, and inspecting production, conduct work style education for cadres,
while simultaneously further ascertaining the circumstances and problems regarding the work style of rural cadres. After the spring plowing is over or during the slack season when hoes are hung up, we will then convene county-level four-level cadres’ conferences to deeply carry out the rural "Three-Antis" rectification, seeing it through consistently from top to bottom in one vigorous effort. Regarding the "Three-Antis" in urban government organs and enterprises, it has been decided to immediately organize typical investigations, and after research, propose methods and steps.


Xiaoping, i.e., Deng Xiaoping. Peng Zhen, then serving as a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Secretariat.


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