ABSTRACT
General Hsiao Hua's report to the All-Army Political Work Conference, held from 2 to 27 February 1963, laid stress of continuing "extensively and penetratingly throughout the: Army" the movement for creating four-good companies. The All-Array Political Work Conference of 1963 adopted "Regulations on Political Work in the People's Liberation Army (PLA)". The political commissars ordinarily served as the Secretaries—that is the most powerful leaders—of the Party Committees in the PLA. The army must come under the absolute leadership of the Party and the supervision of the masses in order to ensure that the principles, policies and programmes of the Party were resolutely implemented within the PLA. The abolition of all formal ranks and insignia in the PLA by a decree was part of the national campaign to strengthen ideological and socialist education, to enforce new discipline in the armed forces and to reinstate politics in a commanding position.
