Comments on a Letter Received from Lianshui County, Jiangsu Province〔1〕 (June 10, 1959) Forward this letter to Comrade Jiang Weiqing〔2〕 of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee for review.
Mao Zedong June 10 Based on the handwritten draft.
Notes: [1] Refers to a letter received on June 8, 1959, relayed by the editorial department of the China Youth Daily from a reader in Lianshui County, Jiangsu Province, using the pseudonym “Dongfeng.”
The letter described the widespread falsification of data since the beginning of the Great Leap Forward in the local countryside, poor conduct among cadres, difficult living conditions for farmers, declining standards of student life, a reduction in working cattle, shortages of fertilizer, and a lack of labor. [2] Jiang Weiqing was at that time First Secretary of the CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee. 3£°