Comments Approving Wang Ming’s〔1〕 Continued Leave for Medical Treatment〔2〕 (March and April 1955) 1. To be distributed to all delegates, with one copy also sent to Wang Ming.
Printed from Mao Zedong’s manuscript.

2. After Comrade Liu Shaoqi had reviewed it, he passed it on to Comrade Deng Xiaoping〔3〕 for distribution to the delegates and instructed that Wang Ming be informed he could continue his leave for medical treatment.
Mao Zedong had it printed from the manuscript on April 1.

Notes 〔1〕 Wang Ming, i.e., Chen Shaoyu, was at the time a member of the CPC Central Committee. 〔2〕 On March 30, 1955, Fu Zhensheng, a delegate to the National Representatives’ Conference of the Communist Party of China and Deputy Secretary of the Jilin Provincial Party Committee, wrote to Mao Zedong and the Presidium of the Conference, stating that this meeting held great historical significance for the Party’s development.
As a member of the Central Committee, Chen Shaoyu ought to have attended, yet his absence and the dismissive attitude he displayed toward the Party gathering indicated that the gap between him and the Party was steadily widening.
Mao Zedong’s first comment was written directly on this letter.
On April 1, 1955, Wang Ming replied in a letter to Mao Zedong and the Presidium, explaining that because he had been granted leave for medical reasons, he had missed out on many valuable lessons from the conference and felt a profound sense of loss.
However, he maintained that his illness had not caused him to drift away from the Party.
Furthermore, from January to February of that year, he had suffered successive bouts of illness affecting his liver, gallbladder, gastrointestinal tract, and heart, leaving him unable to get out of bed and still awaiting surgery.
Mao Zedong’s second comment was recorded on this reply. 〔3〕 Deng Xiaoping was then Secretary-General of the CPC Central Committee.