The Central Committee and Chairman Mao have always held that reforms must have the consent of the Dalai, the Panchen, and the clerical leaders, and can only be implemented when conditions on all sides are ripe. At present, conditions are not ripe, whether among the upper strata or the people, so for the next few years reforms cannot be implemented. The Central Committee believes they cannot be implemented during the period of the Second Five-Year Plan, and whether they can be implemented during the period of the Third Five-Year Plan will also have to be decided based on the situation. But if counter-revolutionary elements under foreign command, instead of going through consultation, insist on destroying the Seventeen-Point Agreement through rebellion and war and smashing the situation in Tibet, then it is possible that this will arouse the laboring people to rise up and overthrow the feudal system and establish a people's democratic Tibet. For now, the policy of no reforms within six years should be widely communicated within the Party and among the Tibetan upper strata. The Working Committee can, in the near future, arrange a discussion with the principal officials of the Preparatory Committee for the Autonomous Region and the Kashag to clearly explain to them the aforementioned policy of the Central Committee.