Comrade Peng Zhen:

Your report of August 24 has been received and read with much satisfaction. It has been forwarded to the various central bureaus for reference.

Please make a copy of this report and send it to Comrade Huang Jing (2) for his perusal, and please convey to him my hope that he will write a report for me on the situation in Tianjin, with a copy to be sent simultaneously to the North China Bureau.

[1] Peng Zhen was then Secretary of the CPC Beiping Municipal Committee.
[2] Huang Jing was then Secretary of the CPC Tianjin Municipal Committee.

Mao Zedong
August 26