To Comrade Xu Bing:

Finalize the matter after consultation with the Premier and Comrades Xiaoping and Peng Zhen[2]. I have no objections.

Mao Zedong
February 20

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**Notes**
[1] This comment was written on a letter dated February 6, 1959, from Xu Bing, Deputy Director of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary-General of the National Committee of the CPPCC, submitting the draft list of members for the Third National Committee of the CPPCC and its explanatory notes to Mao Zedong.
[2] Xiaoping refers to Deng Xiaoping, then General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council. Peng Zhen was then a Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the CPPCC.