Integrity article

Corruption is not only the deadly enemy of revolution, but also the deadly enemy of socialism. Mao Zedong attached great importance to combating corruption and promoting honesty before his death, and accumulated many touching and successful experiences.

Be honest and take the lead in setting an example.

Strike hard while the iron is hot. Only honest people can consciously and resolutely fight corruption. A large number of facts show that Mao Zedong has superhuman courage in the anti-corruption struggle, which is rare at all times and in all countries, and is an example for the whole party!

In the old society, officials usually made a fortune for themselves, rode on the people's heads and lived a decadent life of arrogance and extravagance. Even if there are honest officials, they are rare. Mao Zedong spent most of his life as an official. But when he became an official, he never made a fortune for himself, but served the country and the people and was willing to be a public servant. Its honesty and integrity are well known.

As early as the Jinggangshan period, Mao Zedong, as the supreme leader of Jinggangshan, resolutely abolished the corrupt habit of inequality between officers and men in China's old army for thousands of years, and took the lead in implementing the unity of officers and men in the Red Army.

During the Ruijin period, Mao Zedong, the chairman of China Soviet, was tall and ate a lot, but his rations were only 3/4 of those of ordinary soldiers.

When the Long March passes through the grassland, peppers are precious. The guards managed to get 20 more chilies for Mao Zedong, who likes chilies, but Mao Zedong ordered him to return them in full. The guards disagreed, and Mao Zedong solemnly pointed out: "We are the Red Army. How can you be special as a leader? " The guards had no choice but to obey.

After the birth of New China, Mao Zedong, who has made great contributions to the world, has entered his twilight years, but he is still honest and hardworking, not only eating and drinking, but also scrimping and saving, working day and night.

When the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea broke out, Mao Zedong took the lead in sending his son to join the army. Unfortunately, I lost my son in my later years. Daughters are not allowed to go to school by bus. All gifts are given to the public. Never be selfish to your relatives and friends. The guards ate more and occupied more outside, and Mao Zedong paid the compensation with his private money, which lasted for half a month. It is precisely because Mao Zedong himself paid great attention to honesty and set an example for the whole party that during his administration, his party style, military style and political style were very pure and clean, and he was praised by the people of China.

Hate as hate, personally grasp the big case.

On the issue of combating corruption and promoting honesty, he personally tackled all major cases to the end. As long as it is corrupt, no matter who it is. Regardless of personal relationship, he is selfless and gives a hell of a contribution.

During the Ruijin period, Mao Zedong severely punished a group corruption case in Yudu County. Four people, including the military minister of the county party Committee with the largest amount of corruption, were executed after public trial, and the rest were strictly dealt with according to law.

During the Yan 'an period, Xiao Yubi, deputy director of the Border Trade Bureau, was an old Red Army. He worked hard, was physically disabled and had more than 80 scars on his body. In order to treat him, Mao Zedong gave him special care in supply. However, after he was discharged from the hospital, he was arrogant, ignored the law and discipline, and openly embezzled more than 3,000 yuan from the ocean. After the incident, Mao Zedong enforced the law like a mountain and ordered him to be shot. After Xiao's death, the situation has changed a lot, and the political style in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region has obviously improved.

Huang, the Red Army, killed for love. In order to purge military discipline and uphold justice, Mao Zedong, who loves life, had to "chop Ma Su with tears". After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan. They are promising young leading cadres who joined the Party in 1930s. But they can't stand the test of being in power, and both of them have become big corrupt criminals. Mao Zedong was furious and shot them after a public trial, regardless of dissuasion. It shook the whole country and educated the whole party.

Establish rules and regulations to fight corruption according to law.

In order to fight corruption and promote honesty, Mao Zedong also attaches great importance to fighting corruption according to law. Mao Zedong led, presided over and made hundreds of laws and regulations in his life, many of which were specially formulated for fighting corruption and promoting honesty. As early as the Jinggangshan period, when the revolutionary base area was still in its infancy, Mao Zedong formulated the Jinggangshan Anti-Corruption Instruction. During the Ruijin period, Mao Zedong issued the No.26 Instruction of the Central Executive Committee of the Chinese Soviet on Punishing Corruption and Waste. Provisions: "Those who embezzle public funds above 500 yuan shall be sentenced to death", and those below 500 yuan shall be sentenced in different levels. In addition to recovering the stolen money, it is also necessary to "confiscate all or part of its own property". Whoever "misappropriates public funds for personal gain" will be punished by corruption. At the same time, establish an audit system to review and audit the final accounts and financial revenues and expenditures at all levels, strengthen supervision and management, and promote the building of a clean government. Before the birth of New China, in order to prevent corruption after the ruling of the * * * production party, Mao Zedong put forward the "two musts" anti-corrosion policy at the famous Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee, and made six provisions for the party's senior cadres, such as not celebrating birthdays, not giving gifts, toasting a lot, applauding a lot, not taking names as place names, and not juxtaposing Comrade China with Marx and Engels. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), in order to meet the needs of anti-corruption construction under the new situation, Mao Zedong proposed to set up a disciplinary inspection committee within the party and an administrative supervision institution within the government, and successively promulgated a series of laws and regulations, such as the Regulations on Punishing Corruption in People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Interim Provisions on Punishing Civil Servants' Violations and Dereliction of Duty, which comprehensively and systematically stipulated the charges and sentencing standards of corruption and bribery. Make the anti-corruption struggle regular, institutionalized and legalized.

Education-oriented anti-corruption thought

Corruption includes political corruption, organizational corruption, economic corruption, judicial corruption, military corruption, life corruption, literary corruption, academic corruption, educational corruption, ideological corruption and other forms of expression. Thought is the forerunner of action, and only when there is ideological corruption can there be other corruption. Only by improving people's ideological and moral quality and building a spiritual Great Wall of resisting corruption and preventing change will other corruption phenomena not occur. Because of this, whether in wartime or in peacetime, Mao Zedong pays special attention to the anti-corruption struggle in the ideological field. In order to fight corruption ideologically, Mao Zedong has done a lot of work in practice. 1929. In view of many thoughts existing in the Gongsijun, he presided over the second party congress of the Gongsijun despite his illness. At the meeting, he not only seriously criticized a series of erroneous ideas existing in the Gongsijun, but also profoundly discussed their roots and corrective measures. The influence of decadent ideas in the old society on the Red Army was thoroughly eliminated, which made the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants a real proletarian army and played a vital role in the development of the China revolution. For another example, Mao Zedong led many rectification movements of the Party throughout his life. From 1942 to 1945, Mao Zedong led the famous Yan 'an rectification movement, and thoroughly liquidated the ideological roots of the "left" and right opportunist lines within the party, namely subjectivism, sectarianism, individualism and formalism. , thus greatly improving the quality of the whole party, uniting the whole party under the banner of Fengze East Thought, and ensuring the final victory of the China Revolution. Less than a year after the birth of New China, Mao Zedong led the first rectification movement in New China. 195 1 may 1. The Central Committee issued the "Instructions on Carrying out the Rectification Movement throughout the Party and the Army", requiring Party organizations at all levels to carry out criticism and self-criticism in combination with the work of the Central Committee, and to overcome the style of regarding heroes as heroes, being greedy for enjoyment, bureaucracy and giving orders, as well as the corruption and lawlessness of a few people. After half a year's rectification, party member's ideological understanding of how to be a ruling party has generally improved, and the party's cadres have been purified. Some corrupt elements and party member cadres who can't stand the ruling test have been severely dealt with. In Hunan Province alone, 266 leading cadres in party member at or above the county level were punished, including 64 expelled from the Party and 202 others.

Better troops and simpler administration, drastic measures

1940 or so, the leading organs in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region, the stronghold of the China revolution, were seriously overstaffed. This phenomenon not only increases the burden on the people, but also hinders the revolutionary work. At the second meeting of the Senate in the 194 1 Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, Mr. Li Dingming, an independent, solemnly submitted an important proposal to the General Assembly with a sense of responsibility as a master: he firmly advocated that the government should adopt elite soldiers in the military to avoid the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled making up the numbers; For the organs, we should implement the principle of streamlining, the principle of using fewer people to do their best, avoid the phenomenon of huge institutions, crowded people and wasting human and financial resources, and advocate the style of saving and being honest. Mr. Li Lao's suggestion is really insightful and hit the nail on the head. However, it was opposed by some people. They think this is a time of war, and it should be a battle in Han Xin. The more, the better. Not only do we not support the proposal of the old master Li, but we even doubt his motives. However, Mr. Li Lao's suggestion got Mao Zedong's understanding and firm support. I think Li's suggestion is "very good, which suits the right medicine and improves our bureaucracy, bureaucracy and formalism." With his support, Li's suggestion was finally passed. As far as elite soldiers are concerned; It is stipulated that full-time troops shall not exceed the total number of people in border areas.

2%, full-time civil servants shall not exceed 1% of the total number of people in border areas. Simple administration: focus on tightening the staffing of upper-level institutions, enriching grass-roots units, division of labor and cooperation, and clear responsibilities. Subsequently, the first large-scale work of selecting good soldiers and simplifying government in the history of building a clean government in China was carried out. Then the second streamlining was carried out and great achievements were made: the number of units directly under the border area was reduced from 35 to 22, and the number of staff was reduced from 469 to 279; The troops directly under the Eighth Route Army headquarters were streamlined by 96%, leaving only 4%; The total number of people in the entire border region has decreased by more than 100,000. For the first time in the history of China's * * * production party, a new situation miraculously appeared, with simple government and convenient people and abundant soldiers. He made great contributions to overcoming difficulties and winning the victory in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.

Take precautions before they happen.

More than 300 years ago, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, due to extreme corruption, the peasant uprising was aroused. After 18 years of bloody fighting, Li Zicheng finally led the rebel army into Beijing in 1644, overthrew the Ming Dynasty and established the Dashun Dynasty. Li Zicheng, a small shepherd in northern Shaanxi, became the emperor of Xincheng. But because he could not stand the test of victory and governance, he soon became proud. As a result, he was only emperor for 18 days and was forced to quit Beijing. In less than a year, the commander-in-chief of a million insurgents died tragically at the hands of a handful of landlords and militia organizations in Hubei, only 39 years old, and the short-lived Dashunying died early, which all future generations regretted! Li Zicheng's failure left us with infinite thoughts. 1944 coincides with the 300th anniversary of Li Zicheng's failure. With passion, profound vision and sharp writing, historian Guo Moruo published an inspiring historical masterpiece "The Three Hundred Years Festival of Shen Jia" in Chongqing, revealing a very painful historical lesson to the world, that is, all classes or groups aiming at revolution must not be proud before victory. As soon as A was published, Chiang Kai-shek attacked it on a large scale because of different class positions. Mao Zedong welcomes this. The Liberation Daily, the central organ newspaper in Yan 'an, immediately reprinted the full text, and published an editorial "Preventing complacency" at the same time, calling on everyone to seriously study the article "Shen" and draw a profound lesson from history. Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China and the General Political Department of the Military Commission jointly asked party member, "First of all, senior leading comrades, no matter what favorable situation and actual victory they encounter, no matter what contribution they make to the party and the country and how respected they are, should keep a sober learning attitude and never get carried away and repeat the mistakes of Li Zicheng". After three major battles from the end of 1948 to the spring of 1949, Chiang Kai-shek's defeat was imminent, and the arduous China revolution was in sight. At this critical moment when the old and new societies are changing and China's history is about to change, in order to meet the victory, Mao Zedong convened the famous Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee in time. After making overall arrangements for the birth of the new China, he specifically talked about the problem of preventing arrogance and forbearance, and put forward the "two musts" anti-corruption policy to the whole party in time. At his initiative, the meeting focused on the brand-new topic of improper Li Zicheng, resisting corruption and preventing degeneration, and made a series of specific provisions on anti-corruption, which made necessary ideological preparations for the anti-corruption struggle after the founding of the People's Republic of China.