Chapter 47 Letter to Tian Jiaying[1]

(January 20, 1961) Comrade Tian Jiaying: (1) For the article "Investigation Work"[2], please send a copy to Chen Boda and Hu Qiaomu[3], and note what I asked them to revise (in terms of text and content). (2) Chen and Hu have been informed that, like you, each leads an investigation team, a total of three teams, each team has six members, and there are seven team leaders in total. The team leaders are Chen, Hu, and Tian.It is composed of today, tomorrow and the next three days.Everyone must be at an advanced level, not those at a low level.Distribute a copy of "Investigative Work" (published in the spring of 1930) to everyone for discussion.

(3) You go to Zhejiang, Hu to Hunan, and Chen to Guangdong.Go to the countryside.The six team members are divided into two teams, one as the team leader and two as team members.Chen, Hu and Tian are the group leaders.One team (three people) investigates the worst production team and the other investigates the best production team.Don't do it for the middle team.The time is ten to fifteen days.Then go to Guangdong, the three groups go together, meet me, and report to me.Then, we will transfer to Guangzhou City for investigation, and the industry investigation will take another month, two months in total.They all went to Guangdong for the Spring Festival.

Mao Zedong January 20 at 4:00 pm This letter is read and discussed by 21 people in three groups, it is very important!!! Mao Zedong and According to the "Selected Letters of Mao Zedong" published by People's Publishing House in 1983. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Tian Jiaying, then deputy director of the Political Research Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Mao Zedong's secretary. [2] "Investigation Work" is an article written by Mao Zedong in May 1930 to oppose the dogmatism in the Red Army at that time.On March 11, 1961, Mao Zedong issued an order to issue this article during a work meeting attended by the heads of the Central South Bureau, Southwest Bureau, and East China Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Guangzhou and the heads of the party committees of the provinces, cities, and autonomous regions to which these three regions belong. , and changed the title to "About Investigation Work".When it was compiled into "Selected Readings of Mao Zedong's Works (Type A)" in 1964, Mao Zedong changed the title to "Opposing Bookishness".

[3] Chen Boda, was an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, director of the Central Political Research Office, and Mao Zedong's secretary.Hu Qiaomu was then an alternate secretary of the CPC Central Committee Secretariat and Mao Zedong's secretary.