Comments on Luo Ruiqing’s [l] Speech Draft at the Northeast Regional Conference of Senior Party Cadres
(April 17, 1954)
This document may be used. It has been slightly revised. (2)
Mao Zedong
April 17
[I]
Luo Ruiqing was then Deputy Director of the Political and Legal Committee of the State Council and Minister of Public Security.
[2]
By “this document” is meant Luo Ruiqing’s speech draft delivered at the Northeast Regional Conference of Senior Party Cadres. The main revisions Mao Zedong made to the speech draft were: (1) Replacing the phrase “relying on the correct leadership of our great leader Comrade Mao Zedong” with “relying on the correct leadership of the CPC Central Committee headed by Comrade Mao Zedong.” (2) Deleting the words “and Comrade Mao Zedong” and “and Chairman Mao” from the sentences “Under the leadership of our Party at the central level and of Comrade Mao Zedong” and “Can this be separated from the correct leadership and special concern of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman Mao?”

Archival Photo
In 1954, Mao Zedong during an inspection tour.

In 1954, Mao Zedong at Xishan Xiaoshu in Beidaihe.

Archival Photo
In 1954, Mao Zedong posed for a group photo with Jiang Qing, Li Na, and Mao Yuanxin in Beidaihe.