Revisions to the Draft Resolution [I]
(January 1954)

The class is led by the Party, and the Party is in turn led by its Central Committee; the Party’s Central Committee also firmly relies on a group of loyal and capable senior cadres. Therefore, the unity of the responsible cadres at and above the level of the Party’s Central Committee and provincial (municipal) committees, as well as the senior responsible cadres of the armed forces, is especially the most crucial key to determining the victory of the revolution.

The interests of the Party’s unity are above all else; therefore, the safeguarding and consolidation of the Party’s unity should be taken as the standard guiding one’s own words and deeds—that is, say what is beneficial to the Party’s unity and do not say what is detrimental to the Party’s unity; do what is beneficial to the Party’s unity and do not do what is detrimental to the Party’s unity.

[1] The draft resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on strengthening the Party’s unity was drafted in Beijing and then sent to Hangzhou for Mao Zedong’s review. Under Mao Zedong’s direction, with the participation of comrades who had accompanied him to Hangzhou, extensive revisions were made to the draft resolution, but the initial revised draft was not preserved. What is now available is the draft resolution brought from Hangzhou to Beijing by Yang Shangkun on January 9, 1954. The two revisions by Mao Zedong included in this text were made on this draft resolution. The text printed in Song typeface represents the words added and rewritten by Mao Zedong.