development.


At the same time, for the development of agricultural productive forces, it is necessary to rationally allocate labor power among various economic sectors and to maintain and deploy sufficient labor power on the agricultural front. It must be understood that under current conditions, our country cannot yet immediately achieve agricultural mechanization in an all-round way, but can only gradually realize such mechanization first in some localized areas. Therefore, ensuring sufficient agricultural labor power is the primary factor in guaranteeing the development of agricultural productive forces."

"The two documents now issued to you by the Central Committee are: one concerning the issue of socialist relations of production in the countryside, and the other concerning the issue of agricultural productive forces. These are two interrelated issues. If these two fundamental issues are not handled in a practical and realistic manner and with speed, it will be impossible to realize the basic policy put forward by the Party Central Committee of taking agriculture as the foundation for developing the national economy, and this policy will become empty talk. Conversely, if these two fundamental issues are handled in a practical and realistic manner and with speed, then it may be possible to reverse, within a relatively short period, the current situation in which agricultural development lags behind industrial development, and this will simultaneously benefit the continued leap forward of industry and other economic sectors."

"To solve the above two fundamental issues thoroughly and in a practical and realistic manner, it seems that relying solely on cadre meetings at various levels is insufficient. It is also necessary for the Party committees of the provinces, prefectures, counties, and communes to make the utmost resolution, implement the consistent directives of the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao, and clearly convey the consistent directives of the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao down to the production teams of the communes and the grassroots units of various economic sectors, so that the Party's various policies and guidelines directly meet the masses. Only by using the method of 'pressing from both ends' by the leadership and the masses, and by combining the methods of top-down and bottom-up, can tangible results be achieved, as in the cases of the Tonghaikou Commune and the Chengmen Commune."

This directive draft, after being reviewed by Mao Zedong, was issued on October 12, 1960.