Administrative Program of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region

The political program with the nature of fundamental law promulgated by the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region during the Anti-Japanese War. In January 1941, the Central Bureau of the Border Region decided to set up a drafting committee for the “Administrative Program of Shaan-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region” to draft the policy program of the Border Region in accordance with the spirit of the "Three-Three System" regime.

In April, the Politburo of the Central Committee discussed and approved in principle this policy platform. Mao Zedong made specific changes to the provisions of the policy platform.

On April 27, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued an instruction on the release of the "Administrative Program of Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region", stating: “The release of this program is of serious political significance at a time when the situation at home and abroad has changed drastically, the KMT is ruling in the dark, and the people of the country are at a loss.”

On April 30, the Central Bureau of the Communist Party of China Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region made a “Decision on the Release of a New Policy Program.”

On May 1, the platform was officially published in the Yan'an New China Daily.

Regarding the united resistance, the “Policy Platform” stipulates: (1) Unite all social classes within the border areas and all anti-Japanese parties, and exert all human, material, financial and intellectual resources to fight for the defense of the border areas, the northwest, China and the expulsion of Japanese imperialism. (2) Insist on unity with friendly parties, armies, and the entire people outside the border area; and oppose surrender, secession, and retrogression. Regarding the “Three-Three system” of government, the “Policy Platform” stipulated that the Party was willing to enter into an electoral alliance with all parties and factions and all mass organizations and that only one-third of the candidates would be Communist Party members so that all parties and factions and people without party affiliation could participate in the activities of the public opinion organs and the administration of the border areas. When a member of the Communist Party is elected as the head of an administrative organ, he or she should ensure that two-thirds of the staff of the organ are non-Party members and that the Communist Party members should cooperate democratically with these non-Party members, should not act arbitrarily or take charge. About clean government, the "Policy Platform" stipulated that: to enforce clean politics, to severely punish public officials for corruption, to prohibit any public officials from acting under false pretenses to help themselves, and to punish Communist Party members severely if they violated the law. At the same time to implement the principle of salary to support integrity, to ensure that all public employees and their families have necessary material life and adequate cultural and recreational life. Concerning the policy of land and rent reduction and interest reduction, the “Policy Platform” stipulates that in areas where land has been distributed, the private land ownership of all peasants who have acquired land is guaranteed. In the undistributed areas (such as Suide, Fuxian, and Qingyang), the landowner's land ownership and the debtor's claims were guaranteed, provided that the tenant farmers paid a certain amount of rent to the landowner and the debtor paid a certain amount of interest to the debtor and that the government made reasonable adjustments to the relationship between tenants and debts. Concerning industrial and commercial policies, the “Policy Platform” stipulated that: developing industrial production and commercial circulation, rewarding private enterprises, protecting private property, welcoming foreign investment, practicing free trade, and opposing monopoly and unification, as well as developing people's cooperative enterprises and supporting the development of handicrafts.

The practice has proved that this program is perfectly suited to China's national conditions and is the only correct policy of governance in the border areas, as well as a good policy to unite the war effort to save China.