On Revising Zhou Enlai’s
*Report on the Work of the Government*
—A Letter to Hu Qiaomu [1]
(September 19, 1954)

Comrade Hu Qiaomu:

I have read through this document [2] once. In some places I felt were inappropriate, I have made marks; in some places I have changed a few words. Please consider them.

Mao Zedong
8:00 p.m., September 19

[1] Hu Qiaomu was then deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee and Mao Zedong’s secretary.
[2] This refers to the draft of the *Report on the Work of the Government* that Zhou Enlai was to deliver at the First Session of the First National People’s Congress.