Comments on Discussing the Issue of Market Supply in Beijing (May 21, 1959) Comrade Xiaoping [1]: Please read this document [2]. Would it be advisable for the Secretariat to convene a meeting of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee to discuss the problem of market supply? Mao Zedong May 21 Printed from the manuscript. Notes [1] Xiaoping refers to Deng Xiaoping, who at that time served as General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council. [2] This refers to “Some Current Conditions in the Market,” which was published in the forty-first issue of the Briefing compiled and printed by the General Office of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee on May 19, 1959. The material reflected the relatively tight situation regarding market supplies in Beijing.