Letter to Hu Qiaomu[1]
(March 14, 1951)

Comrade Qiaomu:

The March 13 issue of Guangming Daily carried a Tianjin dispatch entitled "Tianjin Catholics Strive Forward and Actively Launch the [Self-Reliant] Reform Movement." It is very well written. Please arrange for it to be broadcast and reprinted in Renmin Ribao.[2] The same day, the paper also published an article by Zhang Yushi, a professor at Tianjin Jin-Gu University, entitled "Talking with Fellow Catholics About How to Love the Church." It explains the theoretical basis for Catholic reform and is very persuasive. Please consider reprinting it in Renmin Ribao.[3]

Mao Zedong
March 14

[1] Hu Qiaomu, then Deputy Director of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the General Administration of Press of the Central People's Government.
[2] When reprinted in Renmin Ribao on March 14, 1951, the title was changed to "Tianjin Catholics Actively Launch the Self-Reliant Reform Movement."
[3] Published in Renmin Ribao on March 15, 1951.