Comrade Shaoqi and Peng Zhen[1]:

This document[2] may be sent by telegram to the Party committees of all provinces, cities, and regions. In addition, print and distribute to all units in Beijing, all comrades at the enlarged meeting of the Military Commission, all comrades at the foreign affairs conference, all comrades at the meetings of the various ministries of the Four Commissions[3], and all comrades at the agriculture, forestry, finance, and trade conference. Please consider and handle.

Mao Zedong

September 6

[1] Peng Zhen, then serving as a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Secretariat.
[2] Refers to the situation brief titled "Some Provinces and Municipalities Have Exposed Serious Right-Deviationist Words and Deeds of Certain Senior Cadres in Their Regions," compiled by the Comprehensive Group of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee on August 30, 1959.
[3] The Four Commissions refer to the State Capital Construction Commission, the State Planning Commission, the State Economic Commission, and the Science and Technology Commission.