PARTY PROPAGANDA IN CANTON FACES IMPORTANT TASKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600310396-8
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2011
• Sequence Number: 396
• Publication Date: May 22, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASS! FICATICN CONFI ENTIAL CONFIDFNTAI
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
SUBJECT Political.- Propaganda
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Canton
DATE
PUBLISHED 22 Apr 1950
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF ESPIONAGE ACT BO
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OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORISED PERSON IS PRO-
HIBITED BY LAW. REPN000CTIOH OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950
DATE DIST.ZZ May 1950
NO. OF PAGES 3
SUPPLEMENT TO'
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
PARTY PROPAGANDA IN CANTON FACES IMPORTANT TASKS
It is apparent that the'CCP propaganda and education campaign in Canton
has not reached its objectives and many people are still inclined to believe
the counterpropaganda of the special agents. On the basis of instructions
issued by the Central and South China Bureau propaganda department-and the
South China branch department, the following should'be the main propaganda
objectives:
1. The first objective is to see that all cadres and the masses are
properly indoctrinated and organized behind the fiscal and economic unifica-
tion plan put forward by the central government administration to strengthen
the financial and economic structure of the whole country. The masses should
be told that to avoid great stresses it may be necessary to endure some small
inconveniences. They should understand that the present situation is a choice
between securing greater revenue from the people or Issuing more printing-press
money to balance the budget. They should be reminded that during the last few
weeks prices have been stabilized in a way that they have not been in the last
12 years. This is clear evidence that the government's policy of collecting
from the people to spend upon the people is a success.
There must be a concerted effort of the Party, the government, the
military, and the people to hold out during this critical year of 1950 by a
program of austerity in the use of'food and all other items of daily living.
2. The second important objective is the revival of production,, During
March, the factory managers of Canton net to set up production plans for 1950.
Planned capital investment in alcohol manufacture and expansion of the sugar,
paper, and textile indus,:ies must be carried out. The government has embarked
on a business-loan program and a census of the business community to be able
to extend help to profitable private businesses. Because the land-reform pro-
gram has not yet been carried out in Kvangtung, the peasants' purchasing power
is rot very great.
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Increasing production raises problems of marketing. How shall
publicly operated and privately operated enterprises be carried on simul-
taneously under the general principle of mutual helpfulness? How sh4.ll
democratic control be combined with production in private enterprise?
Pow shall cooperatives be established in all branches of society? What are
the most important matters for consideration in the restoration of industry?
How far can joint activities in industry be carried out? How can the needs
of the farmers be met in preparation for spring planting? How to deal with
the bandit problem and the rent-reduction program? All of these and many
other questions must be explained to the people in the course of our propaganda
eff or?ts .
3. We must play up the meaning and importance of the people's delegates
conference in preparation for the Second All-Circles People's Delegates Con-
ference to be held in Canton. The people must understand that this is the
basic element in the people's democratic dictatorship. The government of
Canton has been ardently trying to carry out the program laid down by the
First All-Circles People's Delegates Conference. In stabilizing the cur'-^ncy
and commodity prices and in securing the public safety, it has achieved ccess.
Public services such as reorganization of the electric power company,
reduction of costs and power rates, control over street hawkers, repair of
streets, and improvement of parks and bridges are evidence that the government
has been carrying out the will of the people. The second all-circles conference
should be bigger and more fruitful than the first. The elected delegates of the
people must be propagandized to take seriously their responsibilities as the
people's representatives, to be ready to speak up with their proposals. They
should be assured that if they do this and produce worthy resolutions, the
government will do its best to carry out what they want.
4. It should be impressed on the people that during the last few months
a great deal of progress has been made in establishing public security in the
city. The first step in setting up a revolutionary government in Canton has
been accomplished. Nevertheless, the KW special ants are still operating
strongly from their island bases, Hong Kong, and Macao, and there are still
multitudes of people who do not understand the spirit of the revolution and
still are influenced by them.
These people must be made to see that the present change is not tempo-
rary and soon to be overthrown by another, and that the USSR's friendly and
egalitarian assistance is for the economic rehabilitation of China and world
peace. They must be impressed with the idea that unless the special agents
and their activities around the city are suppressed, there can be no fulfill-
ment, of the land-reform program with all its benefits. The matter of public
security is one of the most important topics for the consideration of the
second all-circles conference.
5. The victory of the CCF on Hainan should afford the Second All-Circles
People's Delegates Conference a basis for confidence in the invincibility of
the People's Liberation Armies and confidence in their ability to overcome
completely the US-supported remnants of the oppressive KMT. The people should
be encouraged to believe that the People's government can and will perform all
its promises and that it has already given a great many actual evidences of its
ability and willingness to do so. The people should be urged to accept this
victory as evidence that the whole corntry will soon be pacified and they
should give their wholehearted support to the noble efforts of the army to bring
peace to the whole province and the whole land.
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6. The people should be urged to complete quickly the bond sales cam-
paign. The cadres should ask themselves whether they have been slack in their
efforts whether they have been affected by the whining of the capitalists that
they cannot meet the quotas, whether they have been affected by class senti-
ments, or whether they have used high-handed methods in their sales campaign.
Cadres should study the principles of Stalin and Mao and realize that the CCP
bases its government on the working and peasant classes and does not rule by
despotic, high-handed methods.
There are still too many cadres who are imbued with the old ideas
of clanism, who d':sire the applause of their fellow men and are unwilling to
to the criticism of the people. Many have not learned the doctrine of
the Party that the Party member maintains an open mind and helpful attitude
to?.rard non-Party members. A quick change must be made in this respect. Also
all non-Party people in the city should listen to leaders of the Democratic
Fari.ies and give their cooperation to the Party in its efforts to promote the
welfare of the nation.
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