Reply to Comrade Lin Biao: This revision [3] is very good.
Mao Zedong
August 31, 11:00 a.m.

[1] Lin Biao was re-elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of
the CPC Central Committee at the 11th Plenary Session of the 8th CPC Central Committee
and was soon named Vice Chairman of the CPC Central Committee.
[2] On the afternoon of August 31, 1966, Mao Zedong and other leaders of the CPC Central
Committee met with 500,000 teachers, students and Red Guards from Beijing and all over



the country in Tiananmen Square. Lin Biao and Zhou Enlai delivered speeches respectively.
This article is Mao Zedong's comments on the speech submitted by Lin Biao on August 31.
[3] It refers to the two sentences Lin Biao added to the speech submitted for review, namely,
after the sentence "Revolutionary young generals, Chairman Mao and the Party Central
Committee warmly praise your proletarian revolutionary spirit of daring to think, dare to
speak, dare to act, dare to take risks, and dare to revolutionize. You have done a lot of good
things and put forward a lot of good initiatives. We are very happy and we warmly support
you", the sentence "Resolutely oppose suppressing you! Your revolutionary actions are very
good!" was added.