CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: August 11, 1957
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11 August 1957
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CONTENTS
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3. PEIPING ORDERS NEW MASS CAMPAIGN FOR PEASANT
COOPERATION (Confidential) (page 5).
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3. PEIPING ORDERS NEW MASS CAMPAIGN FOR
PEASANT COOPERATION
Comment on:
Orders from the central committee of
the Chinese Communist Party for a mass
effort in "socialist education" among Chi-
na's 500,000,000 peasants indicate Peiping's
growing concern over possible failure of
the Communist program in rural areas. A directive issued
on 8 August calls for immediate action at all levels of the party
to push on with discussions which will give the peasants a "true
appreciation" of the superiority of cooperatives, the necessity
for government purchasing and marketing of farm products, the
relations between urban workers and peasants, and the impor-
tance of suppressing counterrevolution.
The meetings, which will be held in all vil-
lages and cooperative farms, will concentrate first on the grain
delivery question, which is to be dealt with "before the autumn
harvest" due to begin within the next month. The people are
to be warned that unless the problem is solved many will face
"starvation and ruin." Other matters will be taken up in "good
time"
This emphasis reflects Peiping's concern
because state procurement of grain, on which the entire eco-
nomic development program depends, is lagging badly. Peiping
has complained that many cooperatives are falsifying production
figures in order to withhold grain for more lucrative sales on the
open market. The demoralizing prospect of a poor crop for the
second straight year will probably accentuate this trend.
While the emphasis of the directive is on
persuasion, reactionaries and counterrevolutionary elements
are to be silenced at once and the masses encouraged to demand
"necessary control." Mass meetings perhaps similar to those
used to enforce the bloody land reform campaign which ended in
1953 are to be held "when necessary." (CONFIDENTIAL)
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