195 1 On February 4th, the Central People's Government issued an order to confiscate capitalists and other property. 195 1 on February 4th, 2008, the State Council issued the "Request for Instructions on Confiscating the Property of War Criminals, Traitors, Bureaucratic Capitalists and Counterrevolutionaries".
Capitalists refer to people who possess the factors of production and rely on operating enterprises and hiring laborers to make profits, as opposed to laborers.