Comment on the Issue of Openly Criticizing the Wrongdoing in Xuanhua City
(August 6, 1950)
Comrades Bo Yibo and Liu Lantao:
Such behavior in Xuanhua City should probably be publicly exposed and criticized in the newspapers, so as to educate the entire Party. Whether it is appropriate to do so, please consider and inform me.
Mao Zedong
August 6
[1]
Bo Yibo was then serving as the First Secretary of the North China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. Liu Lantao was then serving as the Third Secretary of the North China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.
[2]
This refers to the wrongful act where the meeting chairperson and some Party member cadres at the Second Session of the Third All-Circles People’s Representative Conference of Xuanhua City did not allow the attending representatives to speak fully.