Three-anti and Five-anti Campaigns

Three-anti and Five-anti Campaigns
A campaign conference in Shanghai (1952)
Native name	三反五反运动
Location	China (Nationwide, concentrated in Beijing)
Date	1952 January 1952 – April 1952
Target	Allegedly corrupt officials, government bureaucrats, "bureaucraticism", capitalists and business owners
Attack type	Political Persecution
Deaths	100,000+ (allegedly through suicide)
Victims	10,000 （Estimated)
Perpetrators	Chinese Communist Party, CCP Cadres, political fanatics
Motive	Attack of political opponents of Mao Zedong, the state bureaucracy, elimination of political enemies and consolidation of power

The Three-anti Campaign (1951) and Five-anti Campaign (1952) (Chinese: 三反五反; pinyin: sān fǎn wǔ fǎn) were reform movements originally issued by Mao Zedong a few years after the founding of the People's Republic of China in an effort to rid Chinese cities of corruption and enemies of the state. The result turned into a series of campaigns that consolidated Mao's power base by targeting political opponents and capitalists, especially wealthy capitalists.^[1]