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PARTY DISCIPLINE INSPECTION IN TRANSITION PERIOD 319

Party’s general line for the transition period, the basic task of the
discipline-inspection commissions is to help ensure its smooth imple-
mentation through the handling of violations of Party discipline oc-
curring in the course of carrying out this general line or general task,
and through preventing or overcoming all acts and tendencies detri-
mental to it. To be specific, they should do the following:
1. Help ensure production and the thorough fulfilment of state
plans.
In the First Five-Year Plan (1953-57) formulated in accordance
with the Party’s general line, our basic tasks are to concentrate our
effort on developing heavy industry as the foundation for the coun-
try’s industrialization and for the modernization of our national de-
fence; train the necessary personnel, expand communications and
transport services and develop light industry, agriculture and com-
merce; promote step by step the co-operative transformation of
agriculture and handicrafts and continue the socialist transformation of
private industry and commerce while allowing individual farming and
handicrafts and individual private industry and commerce to play
their proper roles; and further consolidate the alliance between
workers and peasants, ensure the steady growth of the socialist sector
of the economy in relation to the other sectors and, on the basis of
increased production, ensure the gradual improvement of the people’s
material and cultural life.
The whole Party must make preparations and strive to carry out
the foregoing tasks in an orderly, planned way. We must in the pro-
cess exploit all our potentials and check the negative factors that
hinder change. At the same time, we must make a correct appraisal of
both subjective and objective conditions and oppose impetuosity and
rashness. Naturally, tasks of such magnitude have to be carried out
by the entire people under the leadership of the Central Committee
of the Party, the Party committees and the people’s governments at
various levels. The responsibility of the discipline-inspection com-
missions, under the leadership of the Party committees at various
levels, is to co-operate with all relevant departments in safeguarding
the Party’s policies regarding development of production and in
guaranteeing the thorough fulfilment of state plans. To this end, they
must make timely investigation into violations of the Party’s policies
and decisions, deceptions or even sabotage in the implementation of
the five-year plan or annual plans; falsifying of work reports to deceive
the Party; any violations of the laws and decrees of the state; and