Letter to Hu Qiaomu[1]

(March 2, 1951)

Comrade Qiaomu:

The Renmin Ribao of March 1 carried an article by Xiao Qian[2] entitled "Learning in the Course of Land Reform," which is very well written. Please arrange for it to be widely published in various places. Also, have it issued as a separate pamphlet, or publish it together with the article written by Li Junlong[3] in a single volume. Please instruct Xinhua News Agency to organize articles of this kind, with one or several from each province in the land reform areas.

Mao Zedong
March 2

[1] Hu Qiaomu was then Deputy Director of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the General News Administration of the Central People's Government.
[2] Xiao Qian was then Deputy Editor-in-Chief of People's China (English edition).
[3] This refers to the article "The Fighting Peasants of Hunan" written by Li Junlong, Counsellor of the Government Administration Council, published in Renmin Ribao on February 10, 1951.