Regarding Approval for
*Ta Kung Pao* to Publish a Special Supplement
“Economic Review”
[1]
(March 21, 1964)

This document is to be sent to Comrades Kang Sheng and Wu Lengxi [2] for perusal, and thereafter returned to Comrade Li Xiannian for action accordingly.

Mao Zedong
March 21

[1] This instruction was written on a letter dated March 14, 1964, from Vice Premier of the State Council Li Xiannian to Mao Zedong, stating that it seemed permissible to approve *Ta Kung Pao*’s proposal to publish an “Economic Review” special supplement. The letter stated: The Chairman has instructed that *Renmin Ribao* should write theoretical articles. *Ta Kung Pao* is a newspaper designated by the Central Propaganda Department to focus on economic work. They wish to publish an “Economic Review” special supplement, which seems permissible to approve.

[2] Kang Sheng was then an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and a secretary of the Central Secretariat. Wu Lengxi was then Director of the Xinhua News Agency and Editor-in-Chief of *Renmin Ribao*.