Elder Dong[1]:
Please handle this matter[2], and inform me of the result. Can the twenty million jin of grain and ten million jin of salt be allocated as requested and transported in a timely manner?

Mao Zedong
March 20

[1] Refers to Dong Biwu, then serving as Vice Premier of the Government Administration Council of the Central People’s Government.
[2] Refers to the request by the CPC Subei District Committee for the Central Committee to allocate additional grain and salt to relieve disaster victims in Subei.

Mao Zedong’s handwritten instruction on a report concerning the grain shortage situation among disaster victims in Subei.