Directive on Printing and Distributing Shen Hong's Letter to Mao Zedong
(May 22, 1958)

Comrade Xiaoping [2]:

Please have this document [3] printed and distributed to all comrades for their perusal immediately.

Mao Zedong
May
22nd
1958

[1] Shen Hong was then Vice Minister of the Ministry of Coal Industry.
[2] Xiaoping refers to Deng Xiaoping, who was then General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council.
[3] Refers to Shen Hong's letter to Mao Zedong on May 22, 1958. The letter discussed his thoughts on Mao Zedong's initiative to compile short biographies of scientific and technological inventors and suggested that China manufacture its own 10,000-ton hydraulic press. This letter was printed and distributed at the Second Session of the Eighth National Congress as a document.