Some people want me to go and take a rest. There are two types of resting:
one is to sleep in bed; the other is to sleep in a drum.317

Inscription in Guest Book of the Moganshan Clinic

Winter 1953
It takes patience to recuperate from an illness, and furthermore, it requires
the spirit to struggle. After striving day after day [I hope that] health will be
restored to my body.
Source: A Brief Compilation of Materials on the Life of Mao Zedong, Hong Kong:
Union Research Institute, 1970, p. 308.
Comment on the Department of Health Care
1953
It’s a total mess. There is no visible political leadership; nor can there be seen
any earnest professional or technical leadership...
[It] is a department without leadership, without political [awareness], department that does not even manage its professional [duties] in earnest...
[It] is a bureaucratic office where people specialize in eating and in acting as
an officer and a lord and master... This is utterly intolerable…
[In] the current struggle against bureaucratism, [we must] tear away [their]
masks, completely overthrow these [organs], change their appearance, and establish in their place organs that are truly capable of achieving some work.
Source: This is an excerpt from the Red Guard Publication “Invincible”, June 26,
1967, p. 17. This criticism was made in Mao’s comments on a report submitted
by the department of Health Care. He Zheng was the secretary of the First Party
Group of that department.
Directive on Physical Culture
1953
Physical culture is of major importance, concerning as it does the health of
our six hundred million people.
Source: Beijing Review, 17:36, September 6, 1974.


Inscription for No. 1 Automobile Manufacturing Plant of
Changchun
1953
In Memory of the Foundation laying of No. 1 Automobile Manufacturing
Plant.
Source: People’s Daily, September 22, 1976.
Directive on the Work of the Ministry of Geology 318
1953
The Ministry of Geology is a department of investigative and research work.
It should [pay attention to] key issues, and [yet] also be comprehensive…
At the moment you are engaged in a battle, in tactics. In the past you have
done the work of [laying out] strategies; this must be strengthened step by step.
Reconnaissance is the battle; prospecting is the tactic; the strategy is to conduct geological investigations on a region-by-region basis.
Source: Revolution in Science and Technology, July 28, 1967, Red Guard Publication.