Erm Mao was worried that as,i in the course of the, the latter stages of  directive and the   there had been abuses of the system by Party members and that had led to the Party getting a bad name with the peasants and the way to rectify that was to publish the Communist Party membership so everybody in the village would know who was a Communist Party member and they would be able to see, Mao believed, that on the whole Party members had behaved properly, they hadn't exploited the situation for their own advantage  and where they have they would be, there would be a  with them to correct.