Comment on a Xinhua News Agency Report on the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee Strengthening Work on the Industrial Front
(January 25, 1959)
Comrade Xiaoping[1]:
This report[2] is extremely good and should be emulated. Please distribute it to all comrades attending the meeting.[3]

Mao Zedong
January 25

[1] Xiaoping, i.e., Deng Xiaoping, then General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
[2] The report, published in Issue No. 2692 of the *Internal Reference* compiled and printed by the Xinhua News Agency on January 23, 1959, stated that the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee held two telephone conferences on January 12 and 19 of this year, calling on all municipal party committees to establish the guiding thought of "grasping tightly from the very beginning and grasping tightly from start to finish," further strengthen political and ideological education and organizational work on the industrial front, and overcome the slackening sentiment existing among some leading cadres, in order to reverse the current decline in steel and steel product output. To ensure the fulfillment of this year’s entire industrial plan centered on steel, the provincial committee required all municipal party committees to carry out various specific tasks properly and formulate practical and feasible measures.
[3] This refers to the meeting of party committee secretaries from all provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions then being held in Beijing.