Marginal Notes on the Joint Directive
(March 30, 1956)
After reading by Liu,[1] Zhou, and Peng Zhen,[2] return to Xiaoping[3] for handling.
Mao Zedong
March 30
The State Council’s directive on spring plowing[4]
(this document has been returned to Xi[5] for handling) is to appear in the newspapers on April 1. This document[6]
should wait one or two days and may appear in the newspapers on April 3 or 4.

Complete Works of Mao Zedong
Volume 36
From March 29 to April 6, 1956, the National Conference of Representatives of Industrial and Commercial Household Dependents and Women Industrialists and Businesspeople was held in Beijing. The picture shows Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Peng Zhen, and others meeting with conference delegates.
April 1956, Mao Zedong conversing with obstetrics and gynecology expert Lin Qiaozhi.

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April 2, 1956, Mao Zedong meets with all delegates of the National Conference of Representatives of Industrial and Commercial Household Dependents and Women Industrialists and Businesspeople and members of the Hong Kong and Macao Industrial and Commercial Women’s Sightseeing Group.

April 2, 1956, Mao Zedong shakes hands and converses with Li Huiying, head of the Hong Kong and Macao Industrial and Commercial Women’s Sightseeing Group.

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[1] Liu refers to Liu Shaoqi. Zhou refers to Zhou Enlai. Peng Zhen was then alternate secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee.
[2] Xiaoping, namely Deng Xiaoping, was then secretary-general of the CPC Central Committee and vice premier of the State Council.
[3] Refers to the State Council’s directive of March 27, 1956, on spring plowing and production, published in Renmin Ribao on April 1, 1956.
[4] Xi refers to Xi Zhongxun, then secretary-general of the State Council.
[5] Refers to the Joint Directive of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Running Cooperatives Diligently and Thriftily. This directive was published in Renmin Ribao on April 4, 1956.