Comrades,

Please jointly review and finalize the draft of my speech (the twelve sentences agreed upon by you and me), so as to show due caution.

My speech draft is to be printed immediately. Upon receipt, please examine and revise it word by word and sentence by sentence.

I will revise it once more tonight, and it can only be printed again by the morning of the 3rd (tomorrow) and handed over to the comrades to take back. Therefore, the departure time for comrades from the provinces and municipalities tomorrow should be postponed to around noon or 2 p.m.

Comrade Wu Zhifu: Please do not arrange any evening gatherings for today, tomorrow, or the day after, as neither I nor the others will be able to attend.

Comrade Xiaoping: I cannot meet any foreign guests today; I can only see them tomorrow (the 3rd).

Mao Zedong
8 a.m., March 2, 1959

Please read the minutes of the Henan six-level conference held yesterday (the 1st). Comrade Wu Zhifu: The minutes of your six-level conference today (the 2nd) should be distributed to the comrades from the provinces and municipalities tomorrow morning (the 3rd) so that they can take them back. For the minutes of the following days, please send them directly to the provinces, municipalities, regions, and the Central Committee by "air express."

[1]
Refers to the draft of Mao Zedong's speech at the enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee convened in Zhengzhou on February 27, 1959.
[2]
Refers to the twelve sentences on the policy for rectifying and building the people's communes agreed upon at the time, which were later expanded to fourteen sentences through further discussion and incorporated into the "Minutes of the Zhengzhou Conference."