Chapter 54 Letter to Zhang Pinghua[1]

(May 14, 1961) Comrade Zhang Pinghua: This letter of yours [2] can be sent to the party committees of all cities, counties, and communes in Hunan Province for study and follow suit.We must resolutely follow the mass line, discuss all issues with the masses, and then jointly decide and implement them as policies.Party committees at all levels are not allowed to fail to conduct investigation and research work.It is absolutely prohibited that a small number of members of the party committee do not conduct investigations, do not discuss with the masses, lock themselves in the house, and implement the so-called subjectivist policies that kill people.

Mao Zedong Tianjin, May 14, 1961 According to the "Selected Letters of Mao Zedong" published by People's Publishing House in 1983. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Zhang Pinghua, born in 1907, in Lingxian County, Hunan Province (now Yanling Cong. At that time, he was the first secretary of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. [2] Refers to Zhang Pinghua's letter to Mao Zedong on May 13, 1961.This letter reported that he went to a production brigade to investigate and discuss with the masses to solve problems in distribution according to work and management.