Comrade Xiaoping[1]:

The report of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee dated March 16[2] is of great reference value. Please immediately transmit it by telephone to the Party committees of all provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions.

Mao Zedong
March 17

[1] Xiaoping, namely Deng Xiaoping, then serving as General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council.
[2] Refers to the second report submitted by the CPC Hebei Provincial Committee on March 16, 1959, to the Central Committee and Mao Zedong regarding the situation of the six-level cadres' conference. The report stated that the six-level cadres' conference of Hebei Province concluded yesterday afternoon. The conference decided to take the production team (i.e., the former advanced cooperative) as the basic accounting and distribution unit of the commune. Where the former advanced cooperative has been divided into several production teams, they must serve as...