Comrade Shangkun:¹

These two documents² are to be printed this morning and delivered this afternoon to each member of the Central Committee currently in Beijing, alternate members of the Central Committee, each deputy secretary-general, each deputy head of the Rural Work Department, and each secretary-general—one copy each. Also, please inform Hu Qiaomu³ and ask him to study and take charge of revising the model charter.

Mao Zedong
September 6, 1955, 0:30
(Published based on the handwritten manuscript.)

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Comrades:

Enclosed are one copy each of the draft resolution on the question of agricultural cooperation (drafted by Comrade Chen Boda⁴) and the trial draft of the model charter for agricultural producers’ [cooperatives] (revised by Comrade Liao Luyan⁵ based on the original draft). You are requested to review them within three days of receipt, annotate your suggested revisions, and return them to Comrade Yang Shangkun.

General Office of the Central Committee
September 6, 1955
(Published based on Mao Zedong’s handwritten manuscript.)

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**Notes**

1. Shangkun, i.e., Yang Shangkun, then serving as Deputy Secretary-General of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and Director of the General Office of the Central Committee.
2. Refers to the “Resolution on the Question of Agricultural Cooperation (Draft)” and the “Model Charter for Agricultural Producers’ Cooperatives (Trial Draft),” prepared for submission to the Sixth Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
3. Hu Qiaomu, then serving as Deputy Secretary-General of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and secretary to Mao Zedong.
4. Chen Boda, then serving as Deputy Head of the Rural Work Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
5. Liao Luyan, then serving as Deputy Head of the Rural Work Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and Minister of Agriculture.