Comments on the Report by the United Front Work Department of the East China Bureau Concerning the Convening of a Symposium with Non-Party Personages (July 6, 1954) Comrade Li Weihan [1]: This document [2] might well be forwarded to the United Front Work Departments of all Central Bureaus and of all provincial and municipal committees (except for East China), for them to follow suit.
Mao Zedong July 6 Based on the manuscript copy.
Notes [1] Li Weihan was at that time Minister of the CPC Central Committee’s United Front Work Department. [2] Refers to the report dated June 30, 1954, from the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee’s East China Bureau to the CPC Central Committee’s United Front Work Department and the East China Bureau, with copies sent to the United Front Work Departments of the provincial and municipal committees, concerning the convening of a symposium with non-party personages.
The report outlined the discussions at the symposium on such matters as the public release of the draft Constitution, the convocation of the National People’s Congress, and the abolition of the large administrative regions.