Xinhua News Agency:
Comment on Broadcasting Rao Shushi’s Speech
(December 28, 1951)
I have already read Comrade Rao Shushi’s speech[1] and it is very good. There are only a few minor revisions.
Please wire it back to Comrade Rao Shushi today, for publication in the Shanghai newspapers on the 29th or 30th of this month. Xinhua News Agency shall then broadcast it on the 30th as a “Shanghai dispatch,” for publication in newspapers nationwide.
Mao Zedong
December 28
[1] Rao Shushi was then serving as First Secretary of the East China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the East China Military and Administrative Committee.
[2] This refers to Rao Shushi’s report at the mobilization meeting for cadres of East China-level organs on December 17, 1951. It was later published in Renmin Ribao on December 31, 1951, under the title “Strive to Increase Production and Practice Economy, and Combat Embezzlement, Waste, and Bureaucratism.”