Public Security Work Bulletin
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Public Security Work Bulletin (公安工作简报) was a highly classified serial produced by the Ministry of Public Security
of the People’s Republic of China during the disastrous Great Leap Forward
, 1958-1961.
Appearing on average every five days, it was one important source through which information about the true state of affairs in the country reached a small circle of senior decision makers. Issues varied in thickness from 2 to 12 pages, and a typical print run is estimated to have been no more than a 300 copies altogether. It began to appear in late 1958 and ceased publication at the end of August 1962. Its contents sometimes amounted to executive summaries (produced by the Ministry of Public Security General Office) of longer reports from provincial and municipal Public Security Bureaus. Especially in the first half 1962, it served as the channel through which condensed versions of central task-force investigations into lower-level irregularities and corruption etc. were distributed to those with a ”need to know” such matters. The Public Security Work Bulletin was also for a time the regular channel through which national monthly, quarterly and annual incarceration, crime, and accident statistics were circulated by the ministry. Such sensitive statistical data was regularly redacted from articles and reports appearing in less highly classified ministerial sister-publications such as Public Security Construction
and People's Public Security
.
There is no mention of Public Security Work Bulletin in known secondary sources. The above is based on a study of surviving copies of the Bulletin itself.
Ministry of Public Security
Ministry of Public Security can refer to:* Ministry of Public Security of Burundi* Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China* Ministry of Public Security of Costa Rica* Ministry of Public Security of Israel...
of the People’s Republic of China during the disastrous Great Leap Forward
Great Leap Forward
The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China was an economic and social campaign of the Communist Party of China , reflected in planning decisions from 1958 to 1961, which aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a modern...
, 1958-1961.
Appearing on average every five days, it was one important source through which information about the true state of affairs in the country reached a small circle of senior decision makers. Issues varied in thickness from 2 to 12 pages, and a typical print run is estimated to have been no more than a 300 copies altogether. It began to appear in late 1958 and ceased publication at the end of August 1962. Its contents sometimes amounted to executive summaries (produced by the Ministry of Public Security General Office) of longer reports from provincial and municipal Public Security Bureaus. Especially in the first half 1962, it served as the channel through which condensed versions of central task-force investigations into lower-level irregularities and corruption etc. were distributed to those with a ”need to know” such matters. The Public Security Work Bulletin was also for a time the regular channel through which national monthly, quarterly and annual incarceration, crime, and accident statistics were circulated by the ministry. Such sensitive statistical data was regularly redacted from articles and reports appearing in less highly classified ministerial sister-publications such as Public Security Construction
Public Security Construction
Public Security Construction is a classified serial produced by the Ministry of Public Security of the People’s Republic of China.The inaugural issue of Public Security Construction appeared on 30 June 1950, and contained a “mission statement” written by the then Minister of Public Security Luo...
and People's Public Security
People's Public Security
People’s Public Security Its official English-language title is People's Police. is the name of a periodical produced by the Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China. For official use only, its primary intended readership consists of Chinese police officers.-Description:The...
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There is no mention of Public Security Work Bulletin in known secondary sources. The above is based on a study of surviving copies of the Bulletin itself.