CURRENT PROBLEMS IN CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY REFORM

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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 543
• Publication Date: September 29, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASS IFICATIO RESTRICTED
S~C'RITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Political
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Canton, Peiping, Tientsin
DATE
PUBLISHED 10 Apr - 6 Jun 1953
LANGUAGE Chinese
REPORT
CD NO.
DATE OF
DATE DIST. ;L Sep 1953
NO. OF PAGES 4
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
MAGISTRATE DISMISCED FOR BREACH OF PARTY DISCIPLICF-- Canton. Nan-fang Jih-pao,
10 Apr 53
Wu Chung-yang, magistrate of Fo-kang Hsien, has been dismissed for
malfeasance in office and breach of party discipline by the Provincial Committee
of People's Supervision. The party disciplinary committee also removed him from
all party activities.
Wu was charged with financial irregularities, suppressing criticism, and
browbeating a news correspondent. In the tax collection last fall his arbitrary
rulings and enforcements concerning production quotas caused general dissatis-
faction. He spent public funds extravagantly and illegally. These many offenses
brought both the party and the government into disrepute and led to his dismissal..
EFFORTS TO ABOLISH INEFFICIENCY IN CONSTRUCTION UNITS -- Tientsin, To Kung Pao,
5 Jun 53
fsurmary? A hsien magistrate was dismissed for malfeasance in
office and breach of party discipline in Kwangtung Prpvince. Through-
out North China the basic reconstruction divisions started a movement
to improve their efficiency and sense of responsibility. Nationwide
party reform was carried out in the rural areas to educate the
peasants away from an individual economy to that which is cooperative
and collective. Cadres in canton are to be trained to apply theory
to actual condttions./
Peiping, 4 June -- Throughout North China the basic reconstruction organs
actively organized a responsibility system movement against inefficiency and
irresponsibility. As far back as Uid-April, the North China Construction Bureau
ordered each of its subordinate units to organize a movement to eliminate
irresponsibility, At the end of jday, the North China Construction Bureau sent
cadres to Tientsin and other places to help launch the movement.
STAT
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On 21 May the Hopeh Committee of the Chinese Corraunist Party issued a
directive to all construction units demanding approval of this movement. The
basic reconstruction organs in Sulyuan, Shansi, Hopeh, and Tientsin have begun
large-scale investigations to determine the necessary steps to improve con-
ditions. From 18 to 28 May inclusive, the workers of the Second Engineering
Company (Kung-ssu) under the North China Construction Bureau made 753 written
proposals, of which 80 percent were concerned with engineering plans and manage-
ment problems.
Attempts of this movement to eliminate Inefficiency and irresponsibility
included the following:
The workers of the First EngineerinL; Company directly under the joint
Mongolian-Suiyuan Engineering Construction Bureau found out that said company
had not yet formulated its 1953 plans with regard to labor requirements, amount
and quality of materials, financial management, etc. Thus, it was evident that
the leadership of the Joint Mongolian -Su+_yan 5n~ir,eerieg Construct ton Bureau
was inefficient. The cudr_s of all the ccmpanie_; within the bureau met in
conference and attempted to correct present inefficiency and irresponsibility.
The basic reconstruction departments of the Shansi Province State-Operated
Textile 14111 discovered that In ore work district the quality of some cement
pillars did not meet specifications. Immediately a system ,as put into operation
in the Shansi Prc?rtnce Stare-Opera*_e? 'Textile Mill whereby the responsibilities
-h individua.l - _r
v Fi?- `?d .n c,i r; beard- Each cell chief was required
Ca invostt~;utu c,nditlons an, make a report every other day adrea had to make daily y reports. The cull chiefs and leaadding cadres held
Joint conferences to discuss the r?oTess of the movement. The Tai-yuan
\turicipal Co,xr.tttee of the ChineseCorx.cnist Party appointed four work teams
to help the T'ai-yuan Ptoi?le's Gove.
n ears! Censi.rurtion Bureau arouse the people's
interest lei a respon_ibill ty system-
T.'ai-yuan, 4 June -- The Shansi Province State-Operated Textile Mill the
Yang.chu'can Bureau of Mines Civil Fnzincering C '
onstractior. Force, the local
State Operated Shansi Ccnstru-t:-c: Co:p r.y, %n,i L `e T'ni-Tian Municipal Real
Estate :,;envy have conducted inaestii;etions to discover and solve their problems.
The fol1,-,w1r g may be cited ay.
sxsmi le ~ the fault ; and ,leficierr.ies uncovered.
in many cases the leading calres ?c? with Mind optL?nism. Many cadres
'alt that wi,iter technical t.rainint; wootI rsie the rolitiral and technical level
of their workers and that nroblcc:; ?.ioutii hrr norincister.t. For example, the Shansi
Province Construction Company did not appoint lc?adlr ca;'.ree with ;efficient
oxp-rience and the special w,rk units under the r
ndre. lid not have clear duties
or ?sense of responsibility toward _ .: ct?ter.
CoivrTREIir ON r.',CToRy A I'D i?lIi Z PRCDCCTIQI: IIICRS tSE -- Canton, Nan-fang Jih-pao,
10 Apr 5 3
Chunl;kin;;, 4 June -- From 1I' to L3 May, the Southwest Bureau of the Chinese
Communist Party held its Second Ccnferen-e cn Party iiork in idines and Factories.
Thos conference rovesti ated every provincial and :municipal factory as well as the
progress made in improving mina production. This -orferen-e rl;;o in?%estignted
',asir r,:construction progress, local indu tries, and ,arlolla aspects of industrial
problems. Special emphasis was ;riven to the invo,stiL~ation of Jeolo;;ical work.
It was imported at this conference the', since the First Industrial and Mine
Workers Conference hell by the Southwest Bnrerur last Nc-ember the majority of the
leading cadres in all the factories and mines had discovered and had solved many
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key problems. Since March 1953, mass discussions have been held and the cadres
earnestly carried out the state production plans. Hence, a lar;;c portion of the
production plans of the industries, factories, and mines have been fairly well
completed and the quality of the products improved.
The conference also pointed out that, although in the past year there have
been many accomplishments, production does net meet demand.
DEFICIENCIE",, OF PARTY REFCR?i IN RURAL ",RZAS -- Peiping, Jen-uin Jih-pao, 6 Jun 53
An item in the Party Life Section of the Jen-rain Jih-pao called for
continued development and strengthening of the rural refom program as follows:
There has been much carelessness and irregularity in the villages.
Bourgeois ideas linger and exploitation by part.; members crops up here and there.
Indifference, laziness, and backwardness are -Lr.ong the faults to be corrected.
The key to strengthening rural reforr: lies in improving the r::ethods of
party committees at higher levels so that the tasks they assign to the rank ^.nd
file are less numerous, the tin: allotted to de the wcrk is longer, and expla-
nations of pe.iicies and t_ci:n1-u:; clearer.
RI. ?: ;,UCPA\IIII: :.:'7 L\CX Cf COCRDIi:.' IO:: iii ??' ! : ~I\:' __ Carton, :tan-fang Jih-p^.n,
10 Apr 53
In a letter published in the Letter; to the 2lita~r colua: of the Nan-fang
Jih-pao, Lu K'nng, a party cadre i.:aic the follc:.'ir,
statements:
trtdecpread unsatisfactory coalitions do not result fron local causes, but
from hurec.ucr?atisa at the hig r l.r.:le. There, 1:; t lack of executive manage-
ment, all down the line. Thus t:ere i; - cireottc condition of too many tasks,
too many conferences, too r-tny training courses, .:?tc., for the lower level cadres.
1+T1.LRIP'3S C STUDY PROSRia Jlh-p -, 10 '.jr 53
:n nccordance with the 1:y t'.,. party regional comnittee at
the t. -irurictg of their study, cadre.: in rve: n _.rt a fiees in Canton have been
stressiri;g the study of o- ncepts, ter:;is, ::nd b1:-';ic doctrines by reading basic
texts such as "Economic Problems of 3ocialis:a in tiie Soviet Union," "Dialectical
Matcriali:ra, "Political Rcono:ay," etc. This etud?- is to ;yelp t.i:cr understand
Charm's ::onomic life ant its :n;:rove:eut ti.