Critique on Li Lisan’s[1] Draft Speech for the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China

(August 30, 1956)

Return to Comrade Li Lisan:
I have read it through and find it usable.[2] I have only made some purely textual revisions; please review and finalize them.

Mao Zedong
August 30

[1] Li Lisan was then serving as Deputy Director of the Industrial and Communications Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
[2] This refers to Li Lisan’s draft speech for the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China. When published in *People’s Daily* on September 24, 1956, it was titled “Reflections on the Policy of ‘Learning from Past Mistakes to Avoid Future Ones, and Curing the Sickness to Save the Patient.’”