Note On "Charter of the Anshan Iron and Steel Works" (March 22, 1960)

Abstract

This report of the Anshan city Party committee is very good. The more one reads it the more delighted one gets. It doesn't strike one as too long, in fact one would be willing to read it even if it were longer; this is because the problems raised in the report are factual, well reasoned out and very absorbing. With more than 100,000 workers and staff members, the Anshan Iron and Steel Works is the country's biggest enterprise. Formerly, people there thought that their enterprise was a modernized one and there was no need for technical revolution. They were opposed to launching vigorous mass movement, to the principle of cadre participation in productive labor and worker participation in management, of reform of irrational and outdated rules and regulations and of close cooperation among cadres, workers and technicians, and opposed to putting politics in command; they relied on just a few people working in seclusion. Many favored the system of placing responsibility solely on factory director and were agai...