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Zhou Enlai: "There are too many survey statistics and they must be solved"
On August 8, 1950, Liu Bocheng, he long and Deng Xiaoping of the Southwest Bureau of the CPC Central Committee sent a telegram to Liu Shaoqi and Zhou Enlai. The telegram reflects that the central government and the large administrative region government system, the mass organization system such as workers, youth and women, the military system, as well as the documents and survey statistics issued by the party system, a county receives more than 500 official affairs a month, making the following poor to cope with, especially the southwest cadres at all levels are few, can only concentrate on a few major things, can not deal with so many official affairs, otherwise can only develop bureaucracy or make false reports to deal with official affairs. This problem must be properly addressed from above. We have told the heads of the provincial and district party committees not to forward the above documents that have nothing to do with their current work. We are also prepared to do so at the level of the large administrative region.
After receiving the telegram from the main leaders of the southwest party, government and army, the central government attached great importance to it. Zhou Enlai made a clear-cut comment on the telegram of the southwest military and political leaders: "there are too many survey statistics and too many documents, which must be solved. "On August 17, Liu Shaoqi drafted a reply for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China:" Regarding the above documents, all documents that have nothing to do with their own work should not be forwarded. The Central Committee agrees with your opinions and has forwarded your calls to all central bureaus and sub-bureaus, asking them to tell party committees at all levels to handle the matter accordingly. This is a vivid case of the central and local governments working together to fight against bureaucracy and formalism.
Source: Party Building Network
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