TNAG-1622-FCO40-2236-Relations-between-Hong-Kong-and-China-1987 — Page 247

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Mr R Fletcher-Cooke

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Dear Rond

DRAWING THE LINE

British Embassy

11 Guang Hua Lu Peking

Ref : 014/1

26 February 1987

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In the last few days there have been a number of reasonably clear statements by senior Chinese officials in various fields defining where the line should be draw with regard to the struggle against bourgeois liberalisation. The most comprehensive of these was by Luo Gan, the Vice. President of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions in an address to an enlarged meeting of the Presidium of the ACFTU on 25 February.

He made seven points :

(ACFTU),

The factory director responsibility system was intended to strengthen Party leadership, it was certainly not an expression of bourgeois lieralisation.

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ii)

Experiments with leasing and management contracts were not manifestations of capitalism or bourgeois liberalisation.

iii)

The import of technology, capital, personnel skills and management techniques from abroad was not "all-round Westernisation".

iv)

Opposing bourgeois liberalisation did not mean

doing away with socialist democracy.

v)

For workers to complain of management

bureaucratism or improper activities was not bourgeois liberalisation and it was not permissable to use this as an excuse to suppress such criticism.

vi)