Key Issues in Medical and Health Work [1] (June 26, 1965) Shift the focus of medical and health work to the countryside. Printed according to a document of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Note [1]: This is a sentence from a conversation Mao Zedong had with medical personnel on June 26, 1965.

Comments and Revisions on Two Documents of the Fourteenth National Public Security Conference [1] [2] (June 29 and July 10, 1965) I. To Minister Xie: I have reviewed both of these documents [3] and suggest proceeding accordingly. Should the conference put forward any good ideas, they may be incorporated. Mao Zedong June 29 Based on the manuscript. II. Several sentences were revised [4]. Printed according to Mao Zedong’s manuscript. III. A small number of prisoners who have been well reformed and made special contributions to production and construction—such as Engineer Wang Canwen of the Jinzhou Electric Machinery Plant, who developed vacuum smelting and an electron-beam furnace while still serving his sentence—may have their sentences reduced, be released early, or be removed from the category of “reactionaries.” They may also be granted engineer-level treatment or other appropriate economic benefits. IV. The Chairman said: “If the world is at peace, that is very good. But if there is great turmoil, that is not necessarily a bad thing. Disorder—in the sense of war—has its own immense advantages. For example, our Party went through twenty-five years of war (excluding the Sino-Indian border conflict) and yet we won every single battle.” Printed according to Mao Zedong’s revised text. Notes [1]: Refers to the transcript of Minister of Public Security Xie Fuzhi’s speech at the Fourteenth National Public Security Conference on June 11, 1965, and to the report submitted by the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Public Security on July 9, 1965, concerning the Fourteenth Public Security Conference. In his speech, Xie Fuzhi expressed his views and opinions on four issues: first, relying on the masses for dictatorship while reducing arrests and avoiding the escalation of conflicts; second, preparing public security work for possible war; third, dealing with churches and reactionary secret societies; and fourth, conducting the “Four Cleansings” campaign and political education within the public security forces. The report of the Ministry of Public Security’s Party Leadership Group raised several specific matters requiring formal approval by the central authorities: first, controlling arrests, detentions, and re-education through labor; second, strengthening rehabilitation efforts; and third, addressing certain issues related to the building of the public security cadre. [ ]: Part (I) consists of comments written by Mao Zedong on a letter sent to him by Xie Fuzhi on June 28, 1965, containing the transcript of Xie’s speech at the Fourteenth National Public Security Conference for review. Part (II) comprises comments Mao wrote on a draft notice prepared by Xie Fuzhi on July 10, 1965, intended for submission to the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee regarding the forwarding of two documents from the Fourteenth Public Security Conference. Part (III) represents Mao’s revisions to a section of the Ministry of Public Security’s Party Leadership Group report dealing with the second issue, “Strengthening Rehabilitation Efforts.” Part (IV) reflects Mao’s modifications to a passage in the second section of Xie Fuzhi’s speech transcript, which addresses “Preparation for War.” The text typeset in Song typeface indicates words that Mao added or altered. [3]: One document is the transcript of Xie Fuzhi’s speech at the Fourteenth National Public Security Conference, while the other is material compiled by the Office of the Central Air Defense Committee detailing the highly effective mobilization of the masses in the cities of Nanning, Gejiu, and Zhanjiang to dig air-raid shelters and trenches. [4]: See Parts (III) and (IV) of this text.