Comments and Revisions on the Draft of Liu Shaoqi’s
*Report at the Enlarged Central Work Conference* [1]
(January 10, 24, and February 23, 1962)

Comrade Tian Jiaying [3], inform Comrades Shaoqi, Xiaoping, and Boda:

[1]
[2]
[3]
**Comments and Revisions on the Draft of Liu Shaoqi’s *Report at the Enlarged Central Work Conference***

**I**
I have read through these two parts [1] once and find them good, but I have not yet thought them over in detail and cannot offer any differing opinions. I need to read them a second time before I can possibly reflect on them. I have not yet read the third part. The same may be true for the other hundred or more comrades. Therefore, I suggest: postpone the report by three days. During these three days (January 11, 12, and 13), let the comrades attending the enlarged work conference first discuss in small groups the issue of the basic accounting unit in rural areas and other issues (for example, the 22nd Congress [3] issues in Premier [2] Zhou’s report). Please consider whether this is appropriate?

**II**
Deliver to Comrade Tian Jiaying:
A few revisions have been made in Chapter One.
Return after review.

Mao Zedong
January 10, 10 a.m.

Mao Zedong
January 24

**III**
Imperialism and all reactionary classes will never voluntarily withdraw from the stage of history; only when the revolutionary people resolutely wage struggles can they be overthrown, enabling the people to become the masters of their own country.

**IV**
The imperialist bloc led by the United States, reactionaries like Nehru [1], and modern revisionists are staging a new anti-China chorus. This anti-China chorus is utterly unpopular and has very few listeners; no matter how vigorously they sing, in the final analysis, they cannot produce anything of great significance. That is to say, they cannot prevent Marxism-Leninism from spreading and developing in the world, they cannot prevent revolution from spreading and developing in the world, and they cannot prevent socialism from developing in China and other countries.

**V**
The transformation of collective ownership into ownership by the whole people is a gradual process of development throughout the entire historical period of building socialism, requiring a very long time—for example, several decades—and cannot be accomplished in a short period.

**Comments and Revisions on the Draft of Liu Shaoqi’s *Report at the Enlarged Central Work Conference***

**VI**
Comrade Shaoqi:
The letter of February 17 and the two documents [1] have all been reviewed. The revisions are very well done. Please proceed with handling them!

Mao Zedong
February 23

As for the conference schedule, following Enlai’s proposal, it should be moved to March 20 for registration, with two days to review documents, followed by one day for the general assembly, and then immediately convene discussion forums. Holding a lively and vigorous general assembly is extremely necessary.

Mao Zedong, additional note

**VII**
Everyone remembers that at the two Zhengzhou conferences in November 1958 and February 1959, Comrade Mao Zedong sharply pointed out errors such as “equalitarianism and arbitrary transfers” and egalitarianism in the work of the people’s communes. He also sharply pointed out that the two principles of distribution according to labor and exchange of equal value are two fundamental Marxist-Leninist principles that people must strictly adhere to during the stage of building socialism.

In 1962, Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, and personages from various circles in the capital celebrated the Spring Festival together.

In 1962, Mao Zedong and the last emperor, Aisin Gioro Puyi, were together.

--- Notes

Liu Shaoqi’s *Report at the Enlarged Central Work Conference* is a written report delivered on behalf of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to the conference. The report is divided into three main parts: Part One addresses the current situation and tasks; Part Two addresses strengthening democratic centralism and enhancing centralization and unity; Part Three addresses Party issues. This report has been included in Volume II of the *Selected Works of Liu Shaoqi*.


[1] Refers to Part One and Part Two of the revised draft of Liu Shaoqi’s *Report at the Enlarged Central Work Conference*.
[2] Refers to Premier of the State Council Zhou Enlai.
[3] Refers to the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, held from October 17 to 31, 1961.
[4] See Items Three, Four, and Five of this text.


[1] Nehru, then Prime Minister of India.


[1] The letter of February 17 is not detailed. The two documents refer to Liu Shaoqi’s written report and speech at the Enlarged Central Work Conference on January 27, 1962, both of which have been included in Volume II of the *Selected Works of Liu Shaoqi*.


Item One of this text is a comment written by Mao Zedong on a letter sent on January 9, 1962, by his confidential secretary Xu Yefu, which forwarded the revised draft of Liu Shaoqi’s *Report at the Enlarged Central Work Conference* dated January 9. Xu Yefu’s letter stated: “This report has been further revised today. Comrade Shaoqi has instructed that this report be sent to the Chairman for review this evening. The third part of this report will be delivered in a few hours. Please have the Chairman review this revised draft.” Item Two is a comment written by Mao Zedong on a notice from the General Office of the Central Committee dated January 23, 1962, which forwarded the revised draft of Part One of Liu Shaoqi’s *Report at the Enlarged Central Work Conference*. Items Three, Four, and Five are Mao Zedong’s revisions to Part One of the revised draft of Liu Shaoqi’s *Report at the Enlarged Central Work Conference*. Item Six is a comment written by Mao Zedong on the February 15 revised version of Liu Shaoqi’s *Report at the Enlarged Central Work Conference*. Item Seven is Mao Zedong’s revision of a passage on page 14 of the February 15 revised version of Liu Shaoqi’s *Report at the Enlarged Central Work Conference*. Text printed in Song typeface in the document represents additions and rewrites by him.


Tian Jiaying, then Deputy Director of the Political Research Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and secretary to Mao Zedong.