Send to Comrades Chen Yun and Li Weihan for perusal, then return to Mao.

Ask Comrade Chen Yun to read a news item from Jianping. I believe such situations are quite numerous nationwide and should be addressed in a unified manner. Ask [Comrade Li] Weihan to read a news item from Wuhan.

Ask Comrade Li Weihan to call and inquire with Wuhan about what is meant by the "Five Unifies and Five Non-Unifies," and ask him to improve the work.

Mao Zedong
November 24

**Notes**
[1] Chen Yun was then a Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Vice Premier of the State Council, and Minister of Commerce. Li Weihan was then the head of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
[2] This refers to a news item published in Issue No. 2057 of Xinhua News Agency's *Internal Reference* on November 21, 1956, reporting that some units within the trade system of Jianping County, Hebei Province, had been shortchanging and undercutting prices when purchasing local and specialty products from peasants, thereby making illegal profits and causing dissatisfaction among the peasants.
[3] This refers to a news item in the same issue of *Internal Reference*, reporting that democratic personages in Wuhan had offered opinions on our united front work in light of the Hungarian incident. The report stated that democratic personages in Wuhan expressed the hope that the Chinese Communist Party would learn lessons from the Hungarian incident, further improve united front work, and adopt measures to change the phenomenon of the "Five Unifies and Five Non-Unifies."
[4] "Five Unifies and Five Non-Unifies" refers to unifying the higher levels but not the lower, unifying the big but not the small, unifying industry and commerce but not the democratic parties, unifying the progressive but not the backward, and unifying politics but not ideology.