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Comments on the Article “The Hubei Provincial Party Committee Convenes a Symposium with the Secretaries of Five Commune Industries to Discuss Issues Concerning Commune Industry” (December 1959) This article [1] is for your review; please circulate it to all comrades. To be returned to Mao. Printed from Mao Zedong’s manuscript.  Notes [1] Refers to the article “The Hubei Provincial Party Committee Convenes a Symposium with the Secretaries of Five Commune Industries to Discuss Issues Concerning Commune Industry,” published in No. 292–293 of the Xinhua News Agency’s “Internal Reference” issued on December 1, 1959. The article describes the proceedings of this symposium as follows:  1. The meeting held that commune industry possesses great advantages, specifically: (a) it has provided strong support for agricultural production; (b) it has supported national construction and increased commune revenues; (c) it has enhanced the accumulation of commune funds.  2. It was decided that the guiding principle for the development of commune industry in 1960 should be to concentrate efforts on serving the Great Leap Forward in agriculture, with particular emphasis on agricultural tools and the processing of agricultural products, while striving for comprehensive improvement and expansion.  3. There is a need to strengthen leadership over commune industry from top to bottom and to improve the commune management system.