Since the War of Resistance Against Japan, the leadership of the Party in the various anti-Japanese base areas has generally been unified, and the relationship between the Party, government, army, and people (mass organizations) has been basically united, thus supporting the arduous struggle of the past few years and coordinating with the national War of Resistance. However, due to the lingering poison of subjectivism and sectarianism, and due to the lack of clear understanding and appropriate solutions to certain political viewpoints and organizational relationships, some uncoordinated phenomena still exist in the relationship between the Party, government, army, and people (actually, it is the relationship between Party member cadres in the military system) in some areas. For example: insufficient unity of spirit, uneven pace, each acting on its own; the army does not respect the local Party, the local government's spirit is insufficient; the Party and government are not separated; Party member cadres in the government make independence from the Party's leadership; Party members monopolize mass organizations; departmentalism; cliquism, etc. These uncoordinated phenomena hinder the persistence and construction of the anti-Japanese base areas and hinder the further Bolshevization of our Party. The construction of the base areas and the implementation of the democratic system require the leadership of each base area to be unified. In addition, the cruelty of the Japanese invaders' "mopping-up" operations, the strengthening of the blockade lines and base areas, and the difficulty of communication between higher and lower levels, the increased regional and guerrilla nature of the War of Resistance, require the relationship of subordination between higher and lower levels of each system to be more flexible, the independence of activities in each region (military region, sub-region) and the unity of leadership in all aspects of activities to be further expanded and strengthened, and the various organizations in each region to cooperate more closely, so as not to give the enemy any exploitable gaps. For this purpose, the Central Committee hereby makes the following decisions:

(1) The Party is the vanguard of the proletariat and the highest form of proletarian organization. It should lead all other organizations, such as the army, the government, and mass organizations. The unity and centralization of leadership in the base areas should be manifested in the fact that each base area has a unified Party committee (Central Bureau, Sub-Bureau, District Party Committee, Prefectural Party Committee) that leads everything. Therefore, it is determined that the central representative organs (Central Bureau, Sub-Bureau) and Party committees at all levels (District Committee, Prefectural Committee) are the highest leading organs in each region, unifying the leadership of Party, government, army, and people's work in each region, and abolishing the Party, government, and army committees of the past in each region (the establishment of Party, government, and army committees was necessary and correct during the founding period of the base areas). The nature and composition of Party committees at all levels must be changed. Party committees at all levels should not only be Party committees leading local work, but should be unified leading organs of the Party, government, army, and people in the region (but not joint meetings). Therefore, its composition must include the main responsible Party member cadres in the Party committee, government, and army (the standing committee of the Party committee should also include responsible cadres from the Party affairs, government, and army), and should not be entirely or mostly Party affairs workers. The work of Party committees at all levels should take care of all aspects, discuss and inspect the work of the Party, government, army, and people in all aspects, and should not be limited to local work.

(2) The resolutions, decisions, or instructions of the central representative organs and the district and prefectural Party committees must be unconditionally implemented by the lower-level Party committees and the Party groups of the government, the military and political committees of the army, the political departments of the army, and the Party groups and Party members of the militia organizations. The system and relationship of subordination between the government, army, and mass organizations still exist. The decisions and orders of the higher-level government, the orders and instructions of the higher-level military leadership, and the decisions of the higher-level mass organizations (the important documents of the above must be approved by the responsible Party members of the respective organs and the Party committee at the same level, or the consent of the responsible person of the Party committee must be obtained in advance before they are promulgated, but not everything needs to be approved), must be unconditionally implemented not only by the lower-level organs, the army, and the mass organizations, but also by the lower-level Party committees, and must not be disobeyed or shelved under the pretext of no instructions from the higher-level Party committee. If the lower-level Party committee has different opinions on the decisions of the higher-level government, army, and mass organizations, it may report to the higher-level Party committee. When disputes arise within the Party committee while solving specific problems in accordance with the resolutions of the higher-level organizations, they shall be resolved according to the principle of the minority obeying the majority. The responsible persons of the government, army, and mass organizations must implement the decisions of the Party committee at the same level even if they disagree with the majority opinion, but they may report their opinions to the relevant higher-level organs.

(3) The Central Bureau and the Central Sub-Bureau are the representative organs of the Central Committee and are designated by the Central Committee. The district and prefectural Party committees are elected by the unified congress of the Party organizations of the army and the local areas and approved by the higher level. The district and prefectural Party committees should include the local Party organization, the Party cadres of the army, and the responsible persons of the Party groups of the government. Whether the main force participates in the county Party committee shall be decided by each locality according to the specific situation. The county Party committee (county Party committee without the participation of the main force) and the district Party committee only include the responsible persons of the local Party, the local army, and the government. The secretaries of Party committees at all levels should be selected from comrades who can grasp the Party's policies and work in all aspects. Therefore, the secretary of the Party committee must not only understand Party affairs, but also understand war and government work. The candidates for secretary of the district Party committee shall be discussed and decided by the Central Bureau and the Sub-Bureau and approved by the Central Committee. The candidates for secretary of the prefectural Party committee shall be discussed and decided by the district Party committee and approved by the Sub-Bureau and the Central Bureau. In order to unify the leadership of the local Party and the army Party, the secretaries of the Sub-Bureau, the district Party committee, and the prefectural Party committee shall concurrently serve as political commissars of the military region and the sub-region (division or brigade), and a deputy secretary shall be appointed to manage Party affairs. If the political commissar of the military region or sub-region is elected as the secretary of the Sub-Bureau, the district Party committee, or the prefectural Party committee, a deputy political commissar may be appointed to specialize in army work. The secretaries of the Sub-Bureau, the district Party committee, and the prefectural Party committee should take care of all aspects of work, and should not concurrently hold other specific jobs in addition to serving as political commissars. If there are individual special circumstances where the secretary of the Party committee does not have to concurrently serve as the political commissar or the political commissar does not have to concurrently serve as the secretary of the Party committee, it must be approved by the higher-level Party committee or the Central Committee. The military and political committee and the political department in the army become a department of the Party committee at the same level (Central Bureau, Sub-Bureau, district Party committee, prefectural Party committee), and have equal rights and obligations with other departments (such as the organization department, the propaganda department, etc.), and are not subordinate to other departments or committees, but unlike other committees and other departments, they still maintain their direct leadership and subordination relationship between higher and lower levels. Military policies (principles of expanding the army and building the army, political work, etc.) and major policies on military actions (such as strategic and tactical plans and summaries of anti-mopping-up operations) must be submitted to the Party committee for discussion, but specific military actions shall be decided by the commander and political commissar (i.e., the secretary of the Party committee) (the commander and political commissar still have the final decision-making power on military actions according to the regulations on political work), and unlimited democratic discussion will only lead to military failure. The appointment and removal of key personnel in the army must still be carried out by the military organs in accordance with the established rules.

(4) The main force is the armed force under the leadership of the Party and is a powerful pillar for building the base area and supporting the struggle. The main force should take consolidating and persisting in the base area where it is located as its primary task. The main force is national in scope, but it is also local. In the past, the leadership of some base areas was not unified, mainly because some leading comrades of the main force in that area lacked a correct and unified understanding of the establishment and persistence of that base area, and therefore some of the policies they implemented (such as the issue of local armed forces in military construction, the issue of expanding the army, and the issue of unified planning and expenditure in financial and economic policies) only paid attention to the main force and neglected the coordination of the base area and the overall work, thus causing disputes with the local Party and the local government. At the same time, in some areas, the Party and government leading organs did not have a deep understanding of the need to subordinate everything to the war, and failed to fulfill their due responsibilities for the replenishment of personnel for the main force, the guarantee of food and materials, preferential treatment and resistance to desertion, thus causing the relationship between the army and the local Party and government to be uncoordinated. In the future, in order to realize the centralization of leadership in the base area, in addition to realizing the unified Party leadership in each locality with the Party committee as the leading organ, it is also necessary to correct some ideological and political errors of the leading persons of the main force in some localities and the Party and government organs in some localities, and to implement the Central Committee's various policies on the base area. Implement the Military Commission's several instructions on military construction. In the future, the main force must implement the resolutions and decisions of Party committees at all levels and the laws and decrees of governments at all levels. The main force must also implement the decisions of the lower-level Party committees and lower-level governments (such as counties, districts, and townships) in the places where it is stationed. If there is any disagreement, it may report to the higher-level Party committee and the higher-level government. And they should often contact each other and help each other. The local Party, government, and people's organs must abide by the military measures of the main force, such as military actions, deployments, and curfews. The main force should be responsible for protecting the Party, government, and people's organs. If the military, government, and people's organs suffer undue losses due to the negligence and indifference of the army, the responsible person of the army should be punished. In the future, if there are disputes, they should first be resolved locally through coordination, and the disputes and the process of resolution should be reported to the higher level. It is opposed to the practice of various organizations only complaining to the higher level without discussing and solving the problem face-to-face locally.

(5) The political power system (the council and the government) is the organ of power, and its laws and decrees are compulsory in nature. The relationship between the Military Commission and the political power system must be clearly stipulated. The phenomenon of the Party committee monopolizing the work of the political power system, the separation of the Party and the government, and the behavior of Party member cadres in the political power system not abiding by the decisions of the Party committee and violating Party discipline must be corrected. In order to implement the "three-thirds system," the Party's leadership over the political power system should be principled, policy-oriented, and directional, rather than interfering in everything and taking over everything. Lower-level Party committees have no right to change or fail to implement the decisions and decrees of the higher-level councils and governments. Party organs and Party members should be models in implementing the laws and decrees of the councils and governments. The Party should carry out political work to enhance the prestige of the councils and governments. If Party cadres and Party members violate the laws and decrees of the councils and governments, the Party organization should impose severe punishments. The Party's leadership over the work of the councils and governments can only be carried out through its own Party members and Party groups. Party committees and Party organs have no right to directly order the organs of the councils and governments. Party groups must obey the Party committee at the same level, but the work style of Party groups must be refreshed, not to force non-Party members to obey, but to persuade them through their own persuasion and political work. If the Party group fails to persuade the majority of the council and the government, and therefore the Party group's opinion is not adopted by the council and the government, the minority must obey the majority and must not violate the principle of democratic centralism. However, if Party group comrades do not resolutely implement the decisions of the Party committee because their opinions differ from those of the Party committee at the same level, this is a violation of Party discipline by the Party group comrades and should be criticized and punished. The Party must send capable cadres to work in the councils and governments. The phenomenon of neglecting political power work and piling up cadres in Party organs must be corrected. When implementing the "three-thirds system," the number of Party members in the political power system is reduced, but the quality of Party members working in the political power system must be greatly improved. Party members and cadres working in the political power system must obey the resolutions, decisions, and discipline of the Party committee and the Party group, and must not act freely by virtue of their position. Here, it should be especially pointed out that the realization of the Party's leadership over the "three-thirds system" political power depends on the consistency of the words and deeds of Party member cadres in the political power system and their absolute obedience to the Party's decisions. Therefore, strictly rectifying the Party discipline of Party members and Party member cadres in the political power is of serious significance. The Party committee should be cautious when transferring Party members in the political power system, and must also go through the procedures for Party members to resign from the political power organs. The relationship between the government and the army must be improved; education to support the government should be carried out in the army; the government should guarantee the supply and transportation of the army; the heads of the army should be elected as government members and councilors. The army should be a model in respecting political power and implementing laws and decrees. Military organs must strictly punish the illegal acts of soldiers. Except for expressing opinions to the council and the government as citizens and government members and councilors, all military organs have no right to interfere in the internal work of the council and the government. However, the political organs of the army must help the government work as much as possible.

(6) The Party, the government, and the army should not directly interfere in the internal life of the people's own voluntary organizations. The Party's leadership over mass organizations is carried out through its own Party members and Party groups. However, the phenomenon of the Party and the people not being separated, monopolizing, and being all of one color must be corrected. The committees at all levels of mass organizations should have more than half of the non-Party members as much as possible. The issue of Party groups in mass organizations is the same as that of Party groups in the government. The government should respect the independent work of mass organizations. Give mass organizations necessary assistance and require mass organizations to implement government laws and decrees. Mass organizations should apply to the government for registration in accordance with the law to obtain legal status. If a mass organization violates government laws and decrees, the government may punish it or even dissolve it. Otherwise, it shall not interfere in the life and work of the mass organization. Mass organizations should call on the people to support the government and the army and help with the work of mobilizing for the War of Resistance. However, mass organizations are not organs of political power and must not replace the government in administrative matters or carry out arrests, interrogations, and judgments against the people. The army and mass organizations should help each other, but should not interfere with each other.

(7) In guerrilla areas, because of its particularity, the centralization of leadership should not only be determined in terms of mutual relations, but also in terms of the Party, government, army, and people's organizations when necessary. The organs of the Party committee, the government, and the mass organizations can be merged with the command organs and political work organs of the army. Party, government, and people's cadres hold certain positions in the army or guerrilla teams (such as deputy military commanders, political commissars, and various political department jobs). They participate in the work of the army and guerrilla teams during wartime, and still perform their original Party, government, and people's duties (such as Party committee secretary, county head, and trade union chairman) during combat gaps.

(8) The centralization of the Party's leadership is manifested on the one hand in the mutual relations between Party and government organizations at the same level, and on the other hand in the relations between higher and lower levels. Here, the strict implementation of the principle of the lower level obeying the higher level and the whole Party obeying the Central Committee is of decisive significance for the Party's unified leadership. The leading organs of each base area must follow the instructions of the Central Committee when implementing policies and systems. When deciding on new issues that have universality throughout the country, the whole Party, and the whole army, they must ask the Central Committee for instructions and must not create new things or make their own decisions that endanger the unity of the Party's leadership (this does not apply to local issues that do not violate the decisions of the higher level and the Central Committee). The failure of lower-level Party, government, army, and people's organizations to resolutely implement the resolutions, decisions, orders, and instructions of the higher level and the Central Committee, acting in a double-dealing manner, or failing to ask the higher level and the Central Committee for instructions when solving new principled issues and issues that should not be decided arbitrarily according to their nature, are all manifestations of impure Party spirit and undermining unity.

Here, it should be reminded once again to the leading comrades of the Party, government, army, and people in various localities that Party member responsible comrades in Party committees at all levels and in the government, army, and mass organizations must not, without the permission of the Central Committee, issue declarations, talks, and broadcasts with national significance and significance to the whole Party and the whole army. The articles of leading comrades at all levels should be reviewed by appropriate personnel of the Party committee or Party group at the same level. The main contents of articles by members of the Sub-Bureau and above and responsible persons at the division level and above that have national and Party-wide significance should be reported or telegraphed to the Central Committee in advance. All levels should no longer broadcast directly to the outside world, but should be unified under the Xinhua News Agency in Yan'an. It should be deeply understood how much a responsible senior cadre of the Party violates the Party's organizational principles and how much it hinders the Party's unity if he or she publishes political views without the consent of the same level or a certain organization at a higher level!

(9) In order to unify the leadership of the base areas and to improve the relationship between the Party, government, army, and people, it is necessary to conduct ideological education among Party member cadres in the Party, government, army, and people's systems, rectify the three styles, and eliminate the lingering poison of subjectivism and sectarianism. At cadre meetings, in accordance with the Central Committee's decision and Comrade Mao Zedong's report, educate cadres to understand the overall situation and take care of the overall situation, call on cadres to practice criticism and self-criticism, so that cadres can manage the overall situation and not fall into the bias of the local and departmental, and understand the correct relationship between the whole and the part, the higher level and the lower level, and between one part and another. It is necessary to strengthen the education work in the Party, government, army, and people's organizations, so that all comrades can recognize the importance of the centralization of leadership and the revolutionary order and revolutionary laws and decrees of the base areas. Here, special vigilance should be paid to army cadres. If the relationship between the Party, government, army, and people is uncoordinated, army cadres should bear greater responsibility under normal circumstances. The army has guns in its hands and is prone to acting arbitrarily, despising the Party and government, not abiding by discipline, acting freely, and damaging the interests of the masses. Therefore, military and political cadres in the army must especially restrain their subordinates and examine themselves. They must call on their subordinates to support the Party's leadership, support the government, and resolutely implement the Party's decisions and the government's laws and decrees. At the same time, it is also necessary to correct some unrealistic views among some Party members and cadres: believing that only working in Party affairs and Party organs is called Party work. In fact, all Party members and Party cadres, regardless of whether they are performing government work, military work, mass work, economic work, technical work, cultural work, etc., are doing Party work. Working in Party organs is only a part of Party work (Party affairs work). Party members obeying the Party's leadership means obeying the Party's line, policies, resolutions, decisions, instructions, and discipline. It is incorrect for some Party members to shout slogans or distort the meaning of obeying the Party's leadership, while not seriously studying or implementing the Party's line, policies, resolutions, decisions, instructions, and discipline.

(10) Strengthening the unity of leadership in the anti-Japanese base areas is for the purpose of carrying out the war against the Japanese invaders more smoothly. "Subordinating everything to the war" is the highest principle of unified leadership. It is necessary to explain to the whole Party that if the army is weakened and if the war fails, the base area cannot exist, and the Party, government, army, and people will all collapse. Therefore, the Party committee, the government, the mass organizations, and the entire people have the obligation to consolidate the army and strengthen its combat effectiveness. The replenishment of personnel for the army, the supply and transportation of food, clothing, ammunition, the transfer of barracks, the transportation, care, and maintenance of wounded, sick, and disabled personnel, the preferential treatment of families of soldiers fighting against Japan, etc., are the responsibilities of the Party committee, the government, and the mass organizations to solve at any time. All phenomena of indifference are extremely wrong and harmful. In the army itself, it is deeply understood that without the cooperation of the Party, the government, and the mass organizations, a bare army cannot support the War of Resistance for a single day. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen education in the troops, so that they can cherish the base area, cherish human and material resources, respect the Party and government, strengthen military discipline, and give the Party, government, and people necessary assistance. The replenishment of personnel and materials, transportation, preferential treatment, etc. for the army must be done in accordance with the laws, regulations, and rules of the government. Messing around will only damage the War of Resistance and is detrimental to the army itself.

(11) The leading organs of each base area shall, in accordance with the principles of this decision and the specific conditions of each locality, formulate various detailed rules related to this, and stipulate them in the form of government laws and decrees, army regulations, Party group rules, mass organization charters, etc., in order to solve many specific problems of unified leadership. After formulation, they must be reported to the Central Committee.