Comrade Peng Zhen[2]:
Forward the instructions on the report on the situation of the enlarged meeting of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee[1]
(September 2–3, 1959)
This document[3] may be forwarded to the Party committees of all provinces, cities, and regions for reference. At the same time, print and distribute it to all comrades at the enlarged meeting of the Military Commission and the foreign affairs conference.
Mao Zedong
September 2
[1]
1. Determined the leap forward targets for the main products of this year.
2. Prominently grasped current production.
3. Regarding the issue of livelihood arrangements, emphasized that the main task at present is to strengthen ideological education among the peasants.
The slogan is: Rouse all vigor to engage in production, and plan meticulously to live frugally.
4. Boldly mobilize the masses, vigorously launch mass movements, and integrate vigorous mass movements with solid and concrete measures.

Complete Works of Mao Zedong
Volume 42
This document (I) is to be forwarded to the Party committees of all provinces, cities, and regions for reference.
Central Committee
September 3, 1959
Comrades Liu[1] and Peng Zhen, for perusal,
Shang Kun[3], for handling,
Additionally printed as previously indicated.
[1]

--- Notes

Note one of this piece is written on the telephone report from the General Office of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee to the Central Committee on August 30, 1959, regarding the situation of the enlarged meeting of the Provincial Party Committee; notes two and three are written on the written report from the Hunan Provincial Party Committee to Mao Zedong and the Central Committee on September 1, regarding the situation of the enlarged meeting of the Provincial Party Committee.
[2]
Peng Zhen, then Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee.
[3]
Refers to the telephone report of August 30, 1959, from the General Office of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee. The report stated that the main contents of the first stage of the enlarged meeting of the Provincial Party Committee were:

Refers to the written report of September 1, 1959, from the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee to Mao Zedong and the Central Committee on the situation of the first stage of the enlarged meeting of the Provincial Party Committee. The report supplemented that this meeting proposed several key points for grasping current work:
First, rapidly implement the spirit of the Eighth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Party in all work. Second, strengthen leadership and integrate vigorous mass movements with solid and concrete measures. Third, uphold politics in command and launch a large-scale socialist emulation campaign. Fourth, leading cadres should go deep into the front line to direct production.
[2]
Liu, refers to Liu Shaoqi.
[3]
Shang Kun, namely Yang Shangkun, then Alternate Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the General Office of the Central Committee.