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thermore, under the condition of permitting each production unit to
retain a suitable profit for itself, within a suitable area to the nature
of production and operation, unify the distribution of the profits from
production. This is necessary to avoid the great evils of lack of coordination,
of inequalities in profits and losses, and of disparities
in hardship and comforts.
8. All agriculture, industry, animal husbandry, transport and
commerce must be run as proper enterprises [qiyehua], using the
system of economic accounting. The food, bedding, clothing and
payments for the working personnel and employees in each enterprise
should be supplied by the enterprise itself. They must not be
provided at public expense.
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TO MAO
9. All production organs (factories, shops, etc.) should be “popu-
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larized” no matter whether they belong to the government, the troops
or the official organizations and schools. With the exception of the
allocation of production tasks, the administration and supervision
of production and the disposal of the results of production, everything
else is under the leadership of the local Party and government,
even including branch life. All personnel in production organizations
must carry out policies, be law-abiding and pay taxes, take off
their uniforms and put on ordinary clothing, join in the activities of
the local masses and be model citizens of the Border Region.
10. In accordance with NOT the concrete FOR circumstances, the Finance
and Economy Office and the financial and economic committees of
the sub-regions should issue specific production tasks for 1943 to
the official organizations COMMERCIAL
and schools in each county system. They
should investigate and examine the production plans, and enter all
the results of production completed within the plan by these production
units into the financial accounts. Surplus production beyond
the plan should DISTRIBUTION
be retained by the unit for itself as a means of
improving livelihood. Upper levels should issue supplements to
units whose production is not enough. Those that made a loss in
1942 should be quickly examined to find ways of making up the deficiency.
11. The four shortcomings pointed out in Chapter 8, “On the Development
of the Productive Undertakings of the Troops”, also apply
to the official organizations and schools. All official organizations
and schools committing similar abuses should pay attention to
correcting them.
12. It must be clearly explained to all personnel engaged in agri-