Comments on Documents Concerning Agriculture
(August 24, 1958)

To Comrade Tan Zhenlin:

I have read all nine documents. They are acceptable and may be printed as they stand.

Mao Zedong
2:00 A.M., August 24

[I]
1. The Central Resolution on Establishing People’s Communes in the Countryside;
2. The Central Resolution on the Arrangements for Agricultural Production in 1959;
3. The Central Directive on Widely Launching Socialist and Communist Education Campaigns in Rural Areas This Winter and Next Spring;
4. The Central Directive on Water Conservancy Work;
5. The Central Directive on Fertilizer Issues;
6. The Central Directive on Deep Plowing and Soil Improvement;
7. The Central Decision on Grain Reserve Matters;
8. The Central Directive on Accumulation and Consumption in Agricultural Cooperatives; and
9. The Central Directive on Improving Education at Higher Agricultural and Forestry Institutions.

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Tan Zhenlin, who at that time served as a Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee.
[2]
Refers to the nine documents concerning agriculture discussed at the expanded meeting of the CPC Central Political Bureau held in Beidaihe. These documents were: