Comments on the Situation and Plans of the Hongqi People’s Commune in Taigu County, Shanxi Province (November 8, 1958) 1. This document [1] is hereby circulated to all comrades present at the meeting [2]. Mao Zedong, year, month, day.
Printed from the manuscript.

2. The situation and plans of the Hongqi People’s Commune in Taigu County, Shanxi Province, are printed from Mao Zedong’s manuscript.

Notes [1] Refers to several documents concerning the merger of five advanced agricultural cooperatives in the former Houcheng Township of Taigu County, Shanxi Province, to form the Hongqi People’s Commune.
These documents are: “Draft Distribution System of the Hongqi People’s Commune in Taigu County, Shanxi Province”; “Draft Outline Plan for the Hongqi People’s Commune in Taigu County, Shanxi Province, to Achieve a Transition to Communism Within Four Years”; “Draft Trial Measures for Production and Welfare Work of the Hongqi People’s Commune in Taigu County, Shanxi Province”; and “The Ideological Trends Among Members of the Hongqi People’s Commune in Taigu County, Shanxi Province.”
Mao Zedong assigned these materials a collective title: “The Situation and Plans of the Hongqi People’s Commune in Taigu County, Shanxi,” which is the present text (II). [2] Refers to the working conference then being held in Zhengzhou, attended by certain central leaders, heads of major regional administrative units, and secretaries of provincial and municipal party committees—the First Zhengzhou Conference.