1949年11月至1953年9月,广东军民在中共中央华南分局的领导下,展开一场声势浩大的剿匪斗争,先后歼灭国民党潜留的政治土匪及各种惯匪18万多人,缴获和收缴各种枪支50多万支(《中南军区、广东省人民政府关于内防治安工作移交政府治安机关管理的联合指示》,1953年9月8日),有效地巩固了广东新生的人民民主政权,保证了社会改革和经济恢复顺利进行。 From November 1949 to September 1953, under the leadership of the South China Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Guangdong military and civilian forces launched a massive fight against banditry and successively annihilated over 180,000 political bandits and various bandits from the Kuomintang and seized And the collection of over 500,000 pieces of various firearms (Joint Directive of the Central Military Command and the People’s Government of Guangdong Province on the Management of the Handover of Internal Disciplinary Security Work to the Public Security Organs of the Government, September 8, 1953), effectively consolidating the people’s democratic democratization The government ensured the smooth progress of social reforms and economic recovery.