Comment on the Experience of Strictly Practicing Increasing Production and Practicing Economy
(August 14, 1959)

Distribute to all comrades. Please instruct all key enterprises to study the experience of the Anshan Iron and Steel Company.

Mao Zedong
August 14
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A report from the Anshan Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China to the Liaoning Provincial Committee on August 8, 1959, stated that after receiving Chairman Mao’s instructions on July 31 regarding the Anshan Municipal Committee’s *Report on the Current Production and Mass Movement Situation at Anshan Iron and Steel and the Work Arrangements for August*, as well as the guiding spirit of the enlarged meeting of the Provincial Committee Standing Committee held from August 3 to 5, they were greatly inspired and resolutely decided to immediately adopt the following measures to further overcome right-leaning slackness and rapidly push the movement to increase production and practice economy to a new upsurge:

1. Immediately launch a campaign among cadres and workers to study and publicize the *People’s Daily* editorial *Overcome Right-Leaning Sentiments, Strictly Practice Increasing Production and Practicing Economy*, so as to fully mobilize them ideologically.
2. Seize the current favorable opportunity to swiftly push the movement to increase production and practice economy to a new upsurge.
3. Conscientiously strengthen enterprise management work.
4. Strengthen leadership over weak links and press for the realization of major measures.
5. Leading cadres at all levels must go deep among the masses and into production, promptly discover and resolve problems in production, summarize and disseminate advanced experience, and race against time to fulfill the state plan by the day and by the shift.

The Liaoning Provincial Committee forwarded this report to all municipal committees and reported it to the Central Committee on August 11, 1959. Mao Zedong’s comment was written on the Liaoning Provincial Committee’s report.