Comrades Shaoqi and Xiaoping: [1]
I have received your call. After consideration, I think it is not appropriate to publish that
speech now. [2] After the Cultural Revolution, there will be many new experiences that can
be used to modify this speech. It will not be too late to discuss whether to publish it then.
Comrade Wang Renzhong also disagrees with publishing it now. [3] In addition, please
inform Comrades Boda, Kang Sheng, and Tao Zhu [4] that the draft of the twelve articles
guiding the Cultural Revolution movement should be expanded to about twenty articles. [5]
Because many of the twelve articles are confusing, some of them can be divided into two or
three articles, so that each article only talks about one thing, which is clear and easy for
readers to understand. It is more appropriate. I hope that within a week, you can discuss it
several times in Beijing, and draft a second draft, and send me two copies. In addition, the
East China Bureau reported to the Central Committee on the policies and deployments of
the Cultural Revolution in East China on the 21st. It is worth referring to. [6]
Mao Zedong
June 30 at 2:00

[1] Shaoqi refers to Liu Shaoqi. Xiaoping, refers to Deng Xiaoping, who was then General
Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
[2] This refers to Mao Zedong's speech on democratic centralism at the enlarged working
meeting of the CPC Central Committee (also known as the 7,000-member conference) on 30
January 1962, where he spoke on the issue of democratic centralism. The speech was later
published on 1 July 1978 in the People's Daily.
[3] Wang Renzhong, then a member of the CPC Central Committee, made a speech on
democratic centralism. He was then deputy head of the Cultural Revolutionary Group of the
CPC Central Committee and second secretary of the South Central Bureau, was the first
secretary of the Hubei Provincial Committee,



[4] Boda, or Chen Boda, then head of the Cultural Revolutionary Group of the CPC Central
Committee. Kang Sheng, then advisor to the Cultural Revolutionary Group of the CPC Central
Committee and Secretary of the Central Secretariat. Tao Zhu, then Executive Secretary of the
Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of the Propaganda Department of
the Central Committee.
[5] The draft document of the CPC Central Committee guiding the Cultural Revolution was
initially twelve articles, was once expanded to twenty-three articles, and finally settled on
sixteen articles. On 8 August 1966, the Eleventh Plenary Session of the Eighth Central
Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) adopted a document entitled Decision of
the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Proletarian Cultural
Revolution.
(6) In the report submitted by the East China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to the
Central Committee, Mao Zedong and the Central Cultural Revolution Group on June 21,
1966, it was stated that from June 3 to 6, the East China Bureau held a Secretariat meeting
to convey and discuss the spirit of the enlarged meeting of the Central Political Bureau in
May. Regarding the issue of further advancing the Cultural Revolution, everyone agreed that
it was necessary to resolutely follow Chairman Mao’s instructions. In the movement, we
must further organize workers, peasants, soldiers and cadres to study Chairman Mao’s
works, learn in struggle, and apply in struggle, so as to push the mass movement of studying
Chairman Mao’s works to a new climax. The meeting studied the following policies and
arrangements: 1. Boldly and freely mobilize the masses. 2. Firmly rely on the left, win over
the middle, isolate and attack the right. Leftists with only individual shortcomings should be
protected, and the goal of struggle should not be confused. We must pay attention to strictly
distinguishing anti-party and anti-socialist elements from those who support the party and
socialism but have also said some wrong words or written some bad works; we must pay
attention to strictly distinguishing bourgeois "scholars" and "authorities" from those with
general bourgeois academic thoughts. As for the rightists, we must focus on the key points,
key units and key figures, especially the party’s capitalist roaders. We must be careful and
accurate in naming and publicly criticizing them in the newspapers. The dismissal of cadres
and public criticism in the newspapers should be approved by the superiors according to the
scope of cadre management. 3. Reorganize the revolutionary cultural team. 4. The "Four
Cleanups" movement should focus on the Cultural Revolution. 5. Strengthen the party's
leadership over the Cultural Revolution. The leadership of the party committees at all levels
should adopt a combination of key points and general methods. Whether to send working
groups to the movements of various units and when to send working groups should be
considered according to the development needs of the situation. The report finally pointed
out that at present, party committees at all levels must take class struggle as the key link,
highlight the Cultural Revolution, and comprehensively arrange work in industry, agriculture,
finance and trade, and the construction of the small third line.