Comments on the Draft Decision Regarding the Rectification Campaign and the Central Committee’s Draft Notice on the Trial Implementation of This Draft Decision (April 1957)  To Comrade Peng Zhen [1]: Please consult with Zhou [3] and have this document [2] adopted and issued at a Politburo meeting.
Mao Zedong April 9 It would be advantageous to dispatch this document as soon as possible.
Printed from the manuscript.
To Party committees and Party groups at all levels: We are now forwarding to you the draft decision concerning the rectification campaign.
Please proceed immediately with a trial implementation, accumulate experience, and report back to us so that we may revise it before its adoption at a plenary session of the Central Committee, after which it will be formally put into effect.
During your trial phase, you must make appropriate arrangements and, taking into account local conditions, issue directives at the provincial and municipal levels.
Thereafter, while conducting the trial, pay close attention to the ensuing…