Comment on the Investigation Report of the Guard Soldiers Returning Home to Visit Relatives [1]
(June 22, 1953)

Written quite well.

The writing should be more popular.

It is necessary to study the social situation and learn from experience.

Mao Zedong
June 22, 1953

[1]
This comment was written on the investigation report of Gongjiadao Township, Fushan County, Shandong Province, written by Zhang Xianpeng, a guard soldier beside Mao Zedong, when he returned home to visit relatives in 1953. In order to understand the real situation in the countryside, Mao Zedong instructed his guards to write a home visit report each time they returned home to visit relatives, and personally reviewed and corrected them to help them improve their political thought and cultural level.