Telegram Requesting the Central Bureau to Forward the Central Committee’s Directive on Land Reform, Grain Collection, and Other Work[1]
(January 10, 1950)

Comrade Shaoqi:

The directive on land reform, grain collection, and other work issued by the Central Committee to all Central Bureaus on January 4 is very good. Please consider whether to request each Central Bureau to forward this directive by telegram to all provincial committees for study, and to ask each provincial committee to express its views to the Central Bureau and the Central Committee. After these telegrams are received, compile them and report to me.

Mao Zedong
January 10

[1] This was a telegram from Mao Zedong, who was then visiting the Soviet Union, to Liu Shaoqi.