Comrade Yibo:
This document [2] should be distributed in two ways: (1) by the Central Committee to provincial Party committees, prefectural Party committees, county Party committees, and the municipal Party committees of all large, medium, and small cities; (2) by the Central Ministry of Finance as an order to all units in the tax system. A medium-sized county has more than eight hundred financial and economic cadres, and the county Party committee and these cadres do not have a thorough grasp of tax policy, with great deviations, so it must be distributed down to the county Party committee. As for small cities, for example, places like Linqing and Botou, as long as they have a municipal Party committee organization, it should also be distributed to them. Please handle all of the above. This document has been sent to Huang Yanpei and Chen Shutong for their review, and they have expressed their agreement.

Mao Zedong
March 10

Mr. Dalai Lama:
Thank you for your letters of August 16 and September 3, 1952 (the fourteenth day of the seventh month of the Water Dragon year in the Tibetan calendar) and for your gifts.
The local government and people of Tibet, under your leadership, have assisted the People's Liberation Army troops entering Tibet, strengthened unity, and striven for the gradual implementation of the Agreement, which gives me great satisfaction.
The representatives of the tribute mission and the visiting delegation you sent are all willing to work and study hard. Your office has been formally established, and the personnel of the office are also working hard.
The Central People's Government's policy toward Tibet, apart from what is already clearly written in the Agreement on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet, was also briefly told by me to the representatives of the tribute mission and the visiting delegation when I received them. These brief words have already been mentioned by Lhukhangwa Thubten Tharpa in his broadcast [2] to Tibet, which I imagine you already know.
As for the assistance needed to build a new Tibet, the Central People's Government will do its utmost to provide whatever can be provided. However, due to transportation obstacles, some things cannot be done for the time being and will have to wait to be done later. The Tibetan tribute mission and