Notes on a Letter from Chen Zhengren [l]
(March 2, 1958)
By telephone to Comrade Chen Zhengren:
Document [21] has been received. As I am leaving on an inspection tour today, we will not be able to have a discussion.
Mao Zedong
March 2
[I]
Chen Zhengren was at the time Deputy Minister of the CPC Central Committee’s Department for Rural Work and Deputy Director of the State Council’s Office of Agriculture and Forestry.
[2]
Refers to the draft directive from the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on large-scale afforestation nationwide, which Chen Zhengren submitted to Mao Zedong on February 26, 1958.