Organizing the labor force into rural mutual-aid labor organizations such as "labor-exchange teams," "work-exchange teams," "labor-swap teams," etc., to carry out plowing, weeding, and harvesting in an organized manner, saves labor compared to individual farming and can also produce more grain.

(People's Daily, January 3, 1951)

Only when China's industry has developed, and China is no longer economically dependent on foreign countries, can there be complete and true independence.

(People's Daily, July 1951)

Without the socialization of agriculture, there can be no complete and consolidated socialism. And to socialize agriculture, it is necessary to develop a powerful industry with state-owned enterprises as its mainstay. The state of the people's democratic dictatorship must solve the problem of the country's industrialization step by step.

(People's Daily, July 26, 1951)

If the Soviet Union did not exist, if there had been no victory in the anti-fascist Second World War, if Japanese imperialism had not been defeated, if the new democratic countries had not emerged... then the international reactionary forces weighing down on us would surely be many times greater than they are now. Under such circumstances, could we have been victorious? Obviously not.

(People's Daily, October 4, 1951)

Comrades, we must now cooperate with many people who come from the old society. We must be careful and prevent the bad habits of the old society from creeping into the Communist Party of China.

(People's Daily, December 30, 1951)