Reply and Annotations to Liu Shaoqi (August 18, 1964) Comrade Shaoqi: Your letter of August 16 [1] has been received.
I read it yesterday (the 17th) and found it very good; I fully approve.
Today (the 18th), I shall consult with all comrades in the Central Committee and proceed accordingly, implementing it swiftly.
The October Working Conference should also discuss this matter once more to reach unanimous agreement and unify thinking within the Party.
Prior to that, all Central Bureaus, provincial, municipal, and regional Party committees, as well as local and county Party committees, should first hold discussions to gather various opinions, so as to facilitate deliberation at the October Central Working Conference.
From mid-August to mid-October, the Central Committee, the various Central Bureaus, and the provincial, prefectural, and county Party committees, together with the municipal Party committees of medium-sized cities, shall devote these two months to immediately training work teams in accordance with your proposal, in order to ensure smooth implementation during the autumn and winter seasons.
Mao Zedong Date Month Year Printed from the manuscript.

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To be forwarded to Deng, Peng, Kang Sheng, Zhu De, He Long, Rongzhen, Ruiqing, Boda, and Lengxi [2] for their review.
Please have Shangkun [3] arrange for its issuance.
Printed from Mao Zedong’s manuscript.
Notes and Commentary [1] In his letter of August 16, 1964, addressed to Mao Zedong and the Central Committee, Liu Shaoqi proposed the following: First, concentrate all county-level work teams under the respective prefectural Party committees, while the provincial-level work teams should be dispatched to different prefectures to carry out unified campaigns targeting a single county under the leadership of the provincial and prefectural committees.
Below the county level, the “Five-Anti” campaign in all sectors and urban areas, as well as socialist education in the countryside, are to be undertaken comprehensively and uniformly by these work teams, either simultaneously or sequentially.
Second, each central organ is to assign personnel to form work teams, which will undergo preliminary training and preparation in Beijing before being distributed to several provinces in each major region.
These provincial teams will then further divide themselves among a few counties, operating under the guidance of the provincial Party committee.
More than three-quarters of the team members should be sent to the countryside to conduct socialist education and the “Five-Anti” campaign below the county level, while no more than one-quarter should be assigned to large and medium-sized cities to focus on the “Five-Anti” campaign there.
In this way, the concentration of forces and strengthened leadership will make it easier to deliver decisive blows and to control the pace of the movement, thereby providing greater assurance for deepening and thoroughly carrying out the campaign, while also reducing the likelihood of disorder.
The letter also notes that specific measures should be devised to counter the newly emerging bourgeois elements and the new rich peasants in both urban and rural areas. [2] Deng refers to Deng Xiaoping, who at that time served as General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee.
Peng refers to Peng Zhen, then a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Secretariat.
Kang Sheng was a candidate member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of the Secretariat.
He Long was a member of the Political Bureau and Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission.
Rongzhen refers to Nie Rongzhen, also a Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission.
Ruiqing refers to Luo Ruiqing, who was a Secretary of the Secretariat, a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission, and its Secretary-General.
Boda refers to Chen Boda, a candidate member of the Political Bureau, Director of the Central Political Research Office, and Mao Zedong’s secretary.
Lengxi refers to Wu Lengxi, who at the time was President of the Xinhua News Agency and Editor-in-Chief of the People’s Daily. [3] Shangkun refers to Yang Shangkun, who was a candidate member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Central Office.