Chapter 46 Letter to Chen Shutong[1]

(December 18, 1950) Uncle: Come to show the recitation, and I have told Comrades Chen Yun and Bo Yibo[2] to handle it at their discretion.There are five million industrial and commercial households in the country, of which there are about three million commercial households. It is inevitable that a large number of commercial firms and handicraft industries will need to be transferred and reorganized when the entire economic undertaking is shifting from the old track to the new democratic track. , the government should properly guide this matter. Hello! Mao Zedong December 18 Printed from manuscript.

-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Chen Shutong (1876-1966), born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.At that time, he was a member of the Central People's Government and vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. [2] Chen Yun, then Vice Premier of the Government Administration Council and Director of the Financial and Economic Committee.Bo Yibo was the deputy director of the Finance and Economics Committee of the Government Council at the time.