Directive on Distributing the Investigation Briefs on Three People's Communes in Hebei Province
Comrades:
Please read this document at once and discuss it. The situation throughout the country, I think, is generally like this—falling into three categories: good, bad, and middling. This document may be distributed all the way down to the communes. Please see to this.
Mao Zedong
December 23, 1960, in Beijing
Boda, read immediately and forward to Shangkun for prompt distribution to all comrades attending the meeting.

[1] Boda, i.e., Chen Boda, then an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, deputy director of the Central Rural Work Department, and secretary to Mao Zedong.
[2] Shangkun, i.e., Yang Shangkun, then an alternate secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee.
[3] Refers to comrades attending the forthcoming CPC Central Committee Work Conference in Beijing.