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ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL PROBLEMS IN THE ANTI-JAPONESE WAR
duction and the amount supplied by the people, the former is 57.5
per cent and the latter 42.5 per cent. The comrades at the county
level estimate that the monthly running-expenses for Party and government
at the county level is roughly 10,000 yuan. Their own production
is around 9,000 yuan and the upper levels only issue around
1,000 yuan. The proportion is thus 90 per cent to 10 per cent and
marks an even greater achievement.
In sum, the self-supporting production work of the official organizations
and schools of Yanan and of the whole Border Region has
had some success. It has not only supplied the greater part of daily
running-expenses and solved urgent financial problems but has also
laid a secure foundation for the public sector of the economy. Rely-
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ing on this base, we can continue to develop production and solve
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future problems.
What is particularly important and worth raising is that we have
gained experience in running economic enterprises. This is a priceless
treasure that cannot be reckoned in figures. We should not only
be able to manage political, military, Party and cultural affairs, but
should also be able to manage economic affairs. If we could do all
the others but not economic work, we would be a useless bunch of
people. We would be overthrown by our enemies and decline until
we collapsed.
In the light of our experience NOT of FOR the past five years, and particularly
the past two, production by official organizations and schools
must henceforth improve, expanding its achievements, overcoming
its weak points, developing COMMERCIAL
towards greater consolidation and completing
even greater production tasks. In 1943 we should adopt the
following policies:
1. Implement the policy of taking agriculture as the chief sector.
DISTRIBUTION
A. According to the actual circumstances in the official organizations
and schools, each should adopt the following methods
of running agriculture. (i) Those with no foundations in
agricultural stations should at once set-to to prepare ploughs and
tools, and separately or in partnership with the people grow grain
and vegetables. (ii) Those with agricultural stations, as well as
continuing production, should expand the scope of operations
and arrange for surplus personnel to do more subsidiary work
such as raising pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks, sawing planks
and so forth. They should also form partnerships with the ordi-
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