The CPC Central Committee decided to hold an enlarged Central Working Conference on June1962+1October1. It is decided that there will be two people in each county, three people in the land, four people in the province and one person in large factories and mines. Thirty-six people from southeastern Shanxi attended, led by Zhao Jun, secretary of the prefectural party committee, and then led by Tao Lugu, secretary of the provincial party committee, and reported to Beijing by train. After arriving in Beijing, I stayed in the State Council Guest House outside Xizhimen, with a bed and a room for two people. Bring your own notebook, pen and cup, sanitary products, etc. , the conference office issued attendance cards and meeting schedules.
The venue is located in the Great Hall of the People, and the delegates take the bus back and forth. 7078 participants, including central, provincial, prefectural, county and state organs and units; Major factories and mines and some leading cadres of the People's Liberation Army. 65438+1October 1 1 When the party and state leaders such as Chairman Mao, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Chen Yun, Lin Biao and Deng Xiaoping stepped onto the rostrum, the audience applauded like thunder and lasted for a long time. The meeting was presided over by Chairman Mao. This is the first time I have seen Chairman Mao and other central leaders with my own eyes.
Chairman Mao declared the meeting open. Chairman Mao said that there are two people in a county, three people in the prefectural party committee, four people in the provincial party committee and four or five people in the Central Bureau ... This meeting is mainly to summarize the work experience and lessons since 1958, and ask everyone to hold this meeting well in the spirit of rectification. He also said that the Central Committee prepared three kinds of meals for everyone at this meeting: good, medium and poor. Now the country is in difficulty, and many people don't even have enough to eat. Let everyone eat a good meal, and I am sorry for the people of the whole country. Comrades work hard below, and the central government sympathizes with everyone who can't eat a good meal. I think we should have lunch! Chairman Mao's witty remarks made many people laugh. At that time, the secrecy system was very strict. When we went to Beijing, we were very nervous and didn't know what we would do. It was not until Chairman Mao said these words that everyone suddenly realized.
Then Liu Shaoqi made a summary report on behalf of the CPC Central Committee. Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Lin Biao and Deng Xiaoping all made concluding remarks at the meeting. They all talked about their experiences, lessons and self-criticism, and then discussed them in groups according to regions. According to the spirit of the report, we should summarize and check their respective work, and severely criticize the "five winds", namely, * * * wind, exaggerated wind, command wind, cadre-specific wind and blind command wind. Giving advice to leaders has a strong democratic atmosphere. Chairman Mao's self-criticism, in particular, is touching. But Lin Biao's speech was different. He said that the problems and lessons in his work were caused by not listening to Chairman Mao, and he didn't criticize himself.
Although the food at the meeting of 7000 people is better than at home, you can eat steamed buns, rice and meat dishes, but you still don't have enough to eat. At noon, there are eight dishes in a table, and rice will not be served in the basin. At that time, the county magistrate and the county party secretary were both in their thirties and forties. When they can eat, they can eat anything at the table. When everyone gets up after dinner, there are always a few people walking around the table and eating the rest when they see it.
During the meeting, I heard that Tian Jiaying, the secretary of Chairman Mao, made a month's research in southeastern Shanxi. Two months later, when Zhao Jun, secretary of the prefectural party committee in southeastern Shanxi, led the county party committee secretary and county magistrate to attend the enlarged central work and conference (i.e. the conference of 7,000 people) in Beijing, Tian Jiaying also invited Pang Xianzhi to meet him at the meeting place, and took the comrades in southeastern Shanxi to Zhongnanhai's home by car, and was received by his wife Dong Bian. Tian Jiaying also took time to lead comrades in southeastern Shanxi to visit Zhongnanhai and the official residence of state leaders.
At the meeting, some county heads and county party secretaries put forward their own views. They work at the grassroots level all the year round, and they are well aware of the harm brought by a policy the day before. These people said, "Zhao Jun, secretary of the prefectural party committee, is in charge of Tao Lugu, secretary of the provincial party committee; Li Xuefeng, secretary of the North China Bureau, is in charge of Tao Lujia; And Chairman Mao is in charge of Li Xuefeng. There is no food under there, and people are starving. Who do you blame Chairman Mao? "
On the afternoon of October 30th, 65438/KLOC-0, Chairman Mao delivered a speech. He said frankly that as far as I am concerned, I still don't understand many problems in economic construction. I don't know much about business. Others know better than me, Comrade Liu Shaoqi knows better than me, Comrade Ryan knows better than me, and Comrade Xiaoping knows better than me. Comrade Chen Yun, especially he, knows more. I know a little about agriculture. But I only know it relatively, but I still don't know it very well. He also made it clear that I am directly responsible for any mistakes made by the Central Committee, and I am also indirectly responsible because I am the chairman of the Central Committee. I'm not asking others to pass the buck. Some other comrades are also responsible, but I should be responsible first. Chairman Mao's strong Hunan accent is hard to understand. He smokes heavily when he speaks and coughs a few times from time to time. But his sincerity infected everyone. Chairman Mao took the lead in self-criticism in such a wide range, and at the same time criticized Mao by name at the meeting, which was unprecedented in the inner-party life after the founding of New China.
After more than ten days of listening to reports and group discussions, we summed up our experience in the form of criticism and self-criticism, examined problems and criticized each other. We have been deeply educated, improved our ideological understanding, and defined our future work direction and objectives. Finally, I took a group photo with Chairman Mao and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China leaders in the compound of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to the arrangement of the conference, the conference ended on June 30, 65438 (the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month), and the delegates had already bought the train tickets to leave Beijing, just waiting for the final summary of the conference to announce the meeting. Who knows that after Chairman Mao made a summary, a representative from the Northeast handed Chairman Mao a piece of paper. After reading it, Chairman Mao read it to everyone to the effect that he had not had time to catch his breath and asked the meeting to extend the time. His signature is "Party Boy". Chairman Mao said, you have to vent your anger and you can't work in your stomach. He proposed to extend the meeting for another seven days to let everyone vent their anger. And proposed to celebrate the New Year with everyone, asking everyone if they would like to, and everyone applauded unanimously. After the meeting, the train ticket was returned and the meeting became a vent. If you have something to say to your peers, superiors and even the central authorities, it is too much. 1On the evening of February 30th, the branch secretary congratulated everyone on behalf of Chairman Mao. After the toast, Li Xuefeng, secretary of the North China Bureau, took a bus to the Great Hall of the People to watch movies with Chairman Mao and leading comrades of the Central Committee to celebrate the Spring Festival, and had a day off on New Year's Day. Thirty-six representatives from southeastern Shanxi took a group photo in the Summer Palace as a commemoration of the Central Working Conference. The third day of the first month is the last day of the conference, and Chairman Mao made a summary report and arrangements. He also said, "vent your anger during the day and go to the theatre at night", which is still being told today. The conference was very comfortable, gained a lot, was deeply educated, and was very happy during the Spring Festival. Participants * * * have a common aspiration, that is, "well done, we must live up to the CPC Central Committee and Chairman Mao".
When I came back from Beijing on the fifth day of the first month and arrived in the county, Song Wudi and I held an enlarged meeting of the county party committee to convey the spirit of the central meeting and organize forces to spread it to party member and the masses in the county respectively.
The 7,000-member Congress of the Central Committee is an important meeting in the history of our Party, which has played a positive role in unifying the thinking of the whole Party and people and promoting the recovery and development of the national economy. New changes have taken place in the political and economic situation in China. At this time, the Central Working Conference coincided with the three-year difficult period of China's economy. Under the leadership of China's * * * production party, governments at all levels, on the one hand, increase production and save money, on the other hand, reduce the number of government agencies and cities, reduce the food supply of cadres and workers for the non-agricultural population, and supplement the people's food shortage. Chairman Mao said that if we don't eat meat for three years, the people will have a disaster year. Cadres at all levels also vigorously mobilize the masses, organize and lead the masses to save themselves in production, and use bran vegetables, corn husks, straw processed into starch, and mixed leaves. To supplement the food shortage, and distributed some relief food to poor households in the worst-hit areas. Inspired by the spirit of the Central Working Conference and Chairman Mao's speech, the cadres and the masses in the Party worked hard to overcome difficulties.