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construction as well as economic construction, and to develop culture
and education. [Otherwise], in no way can all this gain its maximum
success. Therefore, the Land Investigation Campaign is the
most central and most important task in these regions.
Speaking of the Central Soviet Area [i.e., Kiangsi Soviet], the
largest part of the Area constitute the regions where the struggle of
this kind has relatively fallen behind, such as the thirteen whole
counties, Huichang, Hsianwu, Anyuan, Hsianfeng, Loan, Yuhuang,
Kwangchang, Shihcheng, Chienning, Lichuan. Ninghua, Changting
and Wuping; most of the counties like Juichin, Yutu, Posheng,
Shengli, and Yungfeng; portions of the counties like Kunglueh,
Wantai, Kanhsien, Shanghang, Yungting, and Hsinchuan; and even
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the county Hsiangkuo, also has two districts, Chunchun and
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Huangtang.
All these represent the regions where the land question has not
yet been thoroughly resolved.
The peasant masses of these regions have not yet been spurred
broadly; the feudal forces have not yet been beaten decisively, and
in the Soviets, in the mass organizations, and in the local armed
forces, there are still numerous class heretics who are surreptitiously
active; there are still numerous counter-revolutionary secret organizations
which are secretly engaging in the subversion of the revolution.
For this reason, NOT war mobilization FOR and economic and cultural
construction all have fallen far behind the advanced areas (nearly
the entire county of Hsiangkuo, sections of the counties of Shengli,
Kanhsien, Wangtai, COMMERCIAL
Kunglueh, Yungfeng, and Shanghang, Huangpo
District of Posheng, Wuyang District of Juichin, Hsianpo District
of Yutu, Hsinan District of Yungting, and etc.). These regions occupy
nearly 80 per cent of the Central [Soviet] Area in acreage and
contain more than DISTRIBUTION
two million people. In this vast area to carry out
an all-round deepening Land Investigation Campaign, to kindle to
the maximum degree the flame of class struggle among the masses
of two million people and more, to wage a final war against the feudal
forces to destroy them once and for all, are the tasks that the
Communist Party and the Soviet Government cannot afford to relax
for a moment.