Note on Comrade Chen Yi’s Request to Resign from the Post of Mayor of Shanghai
(March 4, 1958)
Agree to his resignation as Mayor of Shanghai, since he now concurrently holds diplomatic duties.
Mao Zedong
March 4
Chuan
This note was written on a letter dated March 2, 1958, in which Chen Yi, then Vice Premier of the State Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs, who also served as Mayor of Shanghai, requested approval to resign from the post of Mayor of Shanghai.