Chapter 53 Letter to Li Jingquan and Chen Zhengren[1]

(May 6, 1961) Comrade Li Jingquan of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee, and referred to Comrade Chen Zhengren of Pingquan Commune in Yangyang: Comrade Chen Zhengren received my letter on May 1, and I am very happy.It is extremely beneficial to go to Jianyang for a week, preferably two weeks of investigation.Comrade Jingquan: Why don't you write to me? I long for your letter.Have you gone to investigate? The central government listed a number of investigation topics[2] and notified you on April 25.Another notice was issued on May 4th, and the deadline was postponed to May 20th, so that there would be sufficient time for investigation and research to thoroughly understand those problems. When it came to the Beijing meeting[3], compared with the Guangzhou meeting[3] 4] come, can go a step further.I have another request here. I ask all the central bureaus, comrades first secretaries of the provincial, municipal and district party committees, to work hard to go to the countryside to do a serious investigation and research work within half a month, and to correspond with me at any time. .Write the letter casually, regardless of appearance.I hope to get a letter from you in this half month.If you show kindness and write to me, I will definitely write back to you.

This letter was also reported to the central government. Mao Zedong Shanghai, May 6, 1961 Please send your letter directly to my place of residence and on the train with a confidential phone number, please do not take it by mistake. According to the "Selected Letters of Mao Zedong" published by People's Publishing House in 1983. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Li Jingquan (1909-1989), a native of Linchuan, Jiangxi.At that time, he was the first secretary of the Southwest Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the first secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee.Chen Zhengren (1907-1972), was born in Suichuan, Jiangxi.He was Minister of Agricultural Machinery at that time.

[2] Refers to the survey topic on some key issues in rural work proposed by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on April 25, 1961.These topics include the canteen problem, the food problem, the supply system problem, the hierarchical management of forests, the problem of reserving a certain amount of firewood for farmers as their own mountain, the problem of three guarantees and one prize, whether it is better for the cattle and farm tools to be owned by the brigade or the production team problems, such as comprehensive rectification and resolute refund of compensation for first- and second-class county commune teams, restoration of handicraft industry, restoration of supply and marketing cooperatives, etc.

[3] See note [2] on page 269 of this volume. [4] See note [3] on page 269 of this volume.