Printed and distributed to all comrades of the Political Bureau, Secretariat, and Cultural
Revolution Group. This matter should be discussed.
Mao Zedong,
August 28

[I] On August 21, 1966, Li Fuchun, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political
Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, wrote a report
to the Central Cultural Revolution Group and to Mao Zedong, Lin Biao, and Zhou Enlai. He
reported on the Cultural Revolution movement in eight State Council departments
(excluding those in charge of foreign affairs, culture, education, and science) over the past
two months and offered ten suggestions on how these departments should implement the
"Sixteen Articles" and carry out the Cultural Revolution effectively. At an enlarged meeting of



the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on August 29,
Mao Zedong commented on this, saying: "Not a single one. Why ten articles? Let's just let it
go. We have sixteen articles, but they won't listen. Let them do whatever they want."