The remaining two years shall all be carried out in this way.

Based on the manuscript of Mao Zedong.

II
Immediately send to Qiaomu and Lengxi:
...Have read it. Very good. Release the draft immediately, and publish it nationwide in the newspapers tomorrow (the 21st). At the same time, immediately translate it into several foreign languages and broadcast it tonight.

Mao Zedong
6:50 p.m., January 20
There is one revision, please take note.
Mao again
Based on the manuscript.

III
In all this work, the plenum holds that it is necessary to fully mobilize the masses, to engage in great airing of views and great contending, and to carry it out with great fanfare.

Published based on the Renmin Ribao of January 21, 1961. (With Mao Zedong's manuscript)

Notes

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〔1〕 Part I of this piece is a comment written beside a paragraph in the draft communiqué submitted for review on the evening of January 19, 1961, by Hu Qiaomu, alternate secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and secretary to Mao Zedong, and Wu Lengxi, head of the Xinhua News Agency and editor-in-chief of Renmin Ribao. The paragraph reads: "In heavy industry, since tremendous development has been achieved over the past three years, and the output of major products has greatly surpassed the levels originally set in the Second Five-Year Plan, the scale of capital construction should be appropriately reduced in 1961, the pace of development adjusted, and the policy of consolidation and improvement adopted on the basis of the victories already won." Part II is a comment written on the draft communiqué submitted for review by Hu Qiaomu and Wu Lengxi on January 20. Part III is a sentence added to the draft submitted for review on January 20.
〔2〕 On January 21, 1961, Renmin Ribao published the full text of the "Communiqué of the Ninth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China."
〔3〕 The draft submitted for review by Hu Qiaomu and Wu Lengxi on January 20 stated: "In view of this situation, Party organizations in many localities, following the instructions of the Central Committee, have already carried out rectification movements among personnel in rural areas and cities, and have already achieved results. The plenum has decided to carry out this movement nationwide in stages and by groups, to help cadres raise their ideological and political levels, improve their methods and style of work, and purify the organization, clearing out the very small number of bad elements who, after serious investigation, are confirmed to have infiltrated the Party and government organs, while at the same time preventing and stopping the disruptive activities of bad elements." After this passage, Mao Zedong added one sentence, which is Part III of this piece. In addition, Mao Zedong added the phrase "based on the team" before the phrase "the three-level ownership system of the people's communes" in the draft submitted for review.