The central government and Tibetan Working Committee formulated a series of policies on democratic reforms. In accordance with the policies, mobilizaiton of the general public was combined with peaceful consultation with patriotic and progressive upper-class people; efforts were made to rely on serfs and unite all forces that could be united to crack down on the most reactionary serf owners and their agents who had participated in the rebellion; the ownership of the means of production of feudal serf owners was abolished step by step; great efforts were made to train Tibetan officials and close attention was always paid to the central link of production so as to ensure the smooth implementtion of the democratic reform.