be one unified term for doctors. It is wrong for some to over-exaggerate the
importance of Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese hospitals should be run
experimentally at key points. In regard to the question of further training of
traditional doctors, it is right and proper to require them to study fundamental
subjects and to exchange experiences. It may be difficult, I am afraid, for them
to learn the pharmacology of Chinese medicine.
2. From now on, graduates from medical programs in the universities must
study traditional Chinese medicine for two years.
3. China ought to have one [integrated school of] medicine, and not two
[schools of] medicine [coexisting] over a long period of time. The terms Chinese medicine and Western medicine are inappropriate; there ought to be only
one integrated school of medicine based on dialectical materialism. The health
of the six hundred million people in China primarily relies on Chinese medicine, and not on Western medicine.
4. To look down on traditional Chinese medicine is a slavish bourgeois
mentality.
Source: These excerpts were culled from Selections from China’s Mainland Magazines, Weekly, Hong Kong (Supplement, April 8, 1969) and Compilation of Red
Guard Materials, p. 371.
Comment on the National Budget
1954
Increasing production, practicing economy, and setting aside more reserves
are the three reliable defense lines to fortify the budget of the state.
Source: Extract from the article To Have Room for Maneuvering is a Positive Policy in the Magazine, Red Flag: 16, August 31, 1969.
Instructions on the Work of Doctors of
Traditional Chinese Medicine
1954
An inappropriate policy of restriction and discrimination has been adopted
toward traditional Chinese medicine in many respects, with the result that

for a long time there has existed in society the situation where doctors of traditional Chinese medicine are opposed to doctors of Western medicine and
are discriminated against, and this situation hasn’t been changed. This is an
extremely grave policy mistake of the health departments... If this situation is
allowed to exist for a long time, not only will our country’s health protection
service continue to suffer serious losses, but there is the danger of this part of
the cultural legacy of our country being lost.
Source: Selections from China Mainland Magazines, Weekly, (supplement 22)
April 8, 1968 (Hong Kong).
Inscription on the Triumph of the People of
Wuhan over the Flood 363
1954
We must still be prepared to do battle against and overcome similarly severe
floods that may occur in the future.
Source: Quoted in The Hills and Rivers of our Country Sparkle with the Glory of
Mao Zedong Thought in Peoples’ Daily, October 2, 1976.
Inscription for Historical Pavilion in Caixi xiang, Fujian
Province
1954
Glory Pavilion 364
Source: From “Glorious Caixi xiang” in Liberation Army Pictorial; 67, July 1,
1967.