Chapter 57 A Letter to Jiangxi Communist Labor University

(July 30, 1961) Comrades: I totally agree with your cause.Part-time work-study, work-study, do not need a penny from the state, there are primary schools, middle schools, universities, scattered in the mountains of the province, a few in the flat land.Such a school is indeed very good.There are mostly young people in the school, and there are also some middle-aged cadres.I hope there are such schools not only in Jiangxi, but also in other provinces.All provinces should send competent and knowledgeable responsible comrades to Jiangxi for investigation, to learn from experience, and to go back and try it out.At the beginning, the number of students should be small, and gradually increase until there are as many as 50,000 students in Jiangxi.

Furthermore, the Party, government, and civil (industrial, youth, and women) organizations also need to run schools, half work, half study.But it is different from the half-work-study in Jiangxi.The industry in Jiangxi is agriculture, forestry, and animal husbandry, and the studies are agriculture, forestry, and animal husbandry.The workers of the party, government, and civil organizations are the workers of the party, government, and civilian agencies. They study cultural science, current affairs, and Marxist-Leninist theory.So the two are different.The two schools already run by the central authorities, one is the Central Guard Corps, which has been in operation for six or seven years. Soldiers and cadres have entered elementary school from the beginning of their literacy, then entered middle school, and then entered university. In 1960, they had already Into the university department.They were very happy and wrote a letter to me. This letter can be printed for you to have a look.The other one was started last year (1960), and it was run by various organs of the Zhongnanhai Party.Workers are government workers, nothing more than confidential personnel, life service personnel, hospitality personnel, medical personnel, security personnel, and other personnel.The guard regiment is an army. They have guard duties, that is, they stand guard and watch. This is their job.They also have strict military training.These are different from civil service schools.

In August 1961, the Jiangxi Communist Labor University commemorated the third anniversary. The host asked me to write a few words.This is a great event, so some of the words above are written for them. Mao Zedong July 30, 1961 Printed from manuscript.