To Premier Zhou Enlai forthwith:

In the places where socialist transformation is mentioned, it would be appropriate to add the words “private ownership of the means of production” and so on, so as to distinguish it from the yet-uncompleted transformation of people.

Mao Zedong
Early morning of 25 June
Printed based on the manuscript.

Notes
[1] This comment was written on the (preliminary draft of the) “Government Work Report” which Zhou Enlai was preparing to deliver to the Fourth Session of the First National People’s Congress. Mao Zedong made some textual revisions to this draft report, the main one being the addition of the nine characters for “private ownership of the means of production” before several places where “socialist transformation” was mentioned.