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3,600,000 yuan. If we do not make the charcoal ourselves, where
shall we find such a large amount of money?
There is also the labour done outside working-hours by the miscellaneous
duties personnel of the official organizations and offices
of the Border Region. For example, the Central General Affairs
Section this year mobilized them to repair buildings, to build surrounding
walls, to make bridges, to build roads and to cut horsefodder.
This saved the government over 110,000 yuan. Similar labour
done by miscellaneous personnel of the Central Party School
saved the government over 139,000 yuan; and 359 Brigade did not
employ outside workers for any of its repairs or new construction.
All official organizations and schools should strive to do the same.
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Mobilize all the people in an official organization or school to do
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all the work they can do. If we only consider the labour done after
working hours by miscellaneous duties personnel, the amount from
all the official organizations and schools of the Border Region could
be surprising. We should give rewards to all people who make
achievements in production, and this should also apply to labour
outside working-hours.
The above is a summary of the experience of the various official
organizations and schools of the Border Region in self-sufficient
production during the period 1939-42.
According to the comrades NOT doing FOR economic work, in the two years
1941 and 1942 the agricultural, industrial and commercial capital of
the Central Administration Bureau and the Rear Services Department
rose from 1,281,917 COMMERCIAL
yuan to 11,690,000 yuan (much of this increase
was due to the fall in the value of the currency and it was not
all due to increased production). The production surplus of the year
1942 was 23,810,000 yuan. Except for the 2,330,000 yuan retained
to increase production DISTRIBUTION
capital in 1943 the remaining 21,480,000 yuan
was all used to supplement food clothing, bedding and office expenses
for the various official organizations and schools. In terms
of the type of enterprise, agriculture accounted for 17 per cent, industry
8 per cent, salt 7 per cent and commerce 68 per cent. In terms
of the official organizations, the enterprises directly under the control
of the Rear Services Department got 8,400,000 yuan, those directly
under the Central Administration Bureau, 3,500,000 yuan,
those jointly run by the above two, 800,000 yuan, and those run by
the various official organizations and schools individually,
11,100,000 yuan. If we compare the amount of self-supporting pro-