Concerning the Printing of
"Collection of Documents from the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau Beidaihe Enlarged Meeting"

(September 1, 1958)

Comrade Shangkun[1]:

The several dozen resolutions, in addition to being printed into a single volume and distributed to all Central Committee members and Party committees at several levels (it seems they should be distributed down to the county level, and in the military, down to the regiment level, as internal documents), which ones should be publicly announced in the newspapers, please consult with Comrades Xiaoping[3] and Peng Zhen[3] to decide.

Return to Shangkun's office.

Mao Zedong
September 1st
Mao Zedong
September 1st

Concerning the Printing of "Collection of Documents from the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau Beidaihe Enlarged Meeting"
[1]
1. The Central Committee's Decision on the 1959 Plan and the Second Five-Year Plan;
2. Main Indicators of the 1959 National Economic Plan;
3. Opinions on the Second Five-Year Plan;
4. Regulations of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Improving the Planning Management System;
5. Several Specific Regulations of the Central Committee on Economic Cooperation;
6. Several Regulations of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Improving the Material Allocation System;
7. Regulations of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Improving the Examination and Approval Procedures for Design Task Books for Basic Construction Projects Above Quota;
8. Decision on the Leadership of Textile Machinery Enterprises. II. 9 documents concerning agriculture:
1. The Central Committee's Resolution on Establishing People's Communes in Rural Areas;
2. The Central Committee's Resolution on the Arrangement of Agricultural Production in 1959;
3. The Central Committee's Instruction on Universally Launching a Socialist and Communist Education Movement in Rural Areas This Winter and Next Spring;
4. The Central Committee's Instruction on Water Conservancy Work;
5. The Central Committee's Instruction on Fertilizer Issues;
6. The Central Committee's Instruction on Deep Plowing and Soil Improvement;
7. The Central Committee's Decision on Grain Reserve Issues;
8. The Central Committee's Instruction on Accumulation and Consumption Issues in Agricultural Cooperatives;
9. The Central Committee's Instruction on Improving the Education of Agricultural and Forestry Colleges. III. 10 documents concerning finance and trade:
1. Several Regulations of the State Council on Further Improving the Financial Management System and Correspondingly Improving the Bank Credit Management System;
2. The Central Committee's Approval and Transmittal of the Report of the Party Group of the Ministry of Food on Grain Purchase and Sales Issues for 1958-1959;
3. The Central Committee's Approval and Transmittal of the Preliminary Opinions of the Party Group of the Ministry of Commerce on the Purchase Quantities of Cotton, Bast Fiber, and Flue-Cured Tobacco in 1958;
4. The Central Committee's Approval and Transmittal of the Opinions of the Party Group of the Ministry of Food on the Arrangement of the Oil and Fat Purchase, Sales, and Allocation Plan for 1958-1959;
5. Regulations of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Graded Management of Market Prices;
6. The Central Committee's Approval and Transmittal of the Report to the Central Committee from Comrades Li Xiannian and Cheng Zihua on the Price Conference;
7. Regulations of the State Council on Graded Management of Agricultural and Sideline Products and Food (excluding Grain and Oil);
8. The Central Committee's Instruction on Developing the Production of Traditional Chinese Medicinal Materials;
9. The Central Committee's Decision on the Necessity of Unified Foreign Trade;
10. The Central Committee's Decision on the Foreign Trade Foreign Exchange System. IV. 1 document concerning education:
The Instructions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Education Work. V. 9 documents concerning other areas:
1. The Decision of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Cadres at All Levels Participating in Physical Labor;
2. The Central Committee's Decision on Militia Issues;
3. The Central Committee's Decision on Mobilizing Young People to Go to Border Areas and Minority Nationality Areas to Participate in Socialist Construction;
4. The Central Committee's Decision on Continuing to Launch the Campaign to Eliminate the Four Pests;
5. The Central Committee's Regulations on Technical Secrecy Issues;
6. The Central Committee's Approval and Transmittal of the Report of the Party Group of the Ministry of Labor to the Central Committee on the Division of Labor and Management of Labor Work;
7. The Central Committee's Instruction on Winter Heating Subsidies for Staff and Workers' Dormitories in State Organs and Public Institutions and Enterprises;
8. The Central Committee's Decision on Developing Copper and Aluminum Production;
9. The Instructions of the Central Committee and the State Council on Vigorously Developing the Copper and Aluminum Industry.
[3]

--- Notes

Shangkun, namely Yang Shangkun, was at that time an Alternate Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee.
[2]
The resolutions discussed and passed by the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau Beidaihe Enlarged Meeting from August 17 to August 30, 1958, were later compiled and printed by the General Office of the CPC Central Committee into the "Collection of Documents from the Central Political Bureau Beidaihe Enlarged Meeting." The collection includes 37 documents in five areas:
I. 8 documents concerning planning and the system:

Xiaoping, namely Deng Xiaoping, was at that time the General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee. Peng Zhen, was at that time a Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee.