Comrades Lin Biao, Enlai, Tao Zhu, Boda, Kang Sheng, Fuchun, Ren Zhong, and Jiang Qing [2]:
Please read this. The situation in Qingdao, Changsha, Xi'an, and other places is the same:
they are all organizing workers and peasants to oppose the students. If this continues, the
problem will not be solved. It seems appropriate for the Central Committee to issue a
directive. [3]
Don't allow any localities to do this. Then write another editorial [4] advising workers and
peasants not to interfere with the student movement. Beijing didn't mobilize workers and
peasants to discipline students, except for the 600 peasants that Renmin University



transferred to the city for protection. Guo Yingqiu [5], no other examples. Based on Beijing's
experience, tell localities to follow suit.
I think the opinions of Tan Qilong (6) and this deputy mayor are correct.
Please discuss this and determine the policy.
Mao Zedong
September 7th

[1] This criticism was written in a report submitted to the Central Cultural Revolution Group
by Wang Xiaoyu, Deputy Head of the Qingdao Municipal Committee's Laoshan County "Four
Cleanups" Working Group and Deputy Mayor of Qingdao, on September 4, 1966. The report
stated that the Qingdao Municipal Committee's Laoshan County "Four Cleanups" Working
Group Party Committee "did not call on workers, peasants, and soldiers to firmly support the
students' revolutionary actions," but instead "instructed workers and peasants to educate
the students, telling them that they were eating peasants' food and wearing workers' clothes
and could not engage in mischief." "Instead of telling the students to learn to swim while
swimming," they "persuaded and educated them not to enter the city." "This was in
opposition to the Central Committee." The report concluded that the students' criticism was
directed correctly, and that "organizing workers and peasants to support" the targets of
criticism was "a mistake in direction.
[2] Lin Biao was re-elected to 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. Enlai, also known as Zhou Enlai.
Tao Zhu, then a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC
Central Committee, Executive Secretary of the Central Secretariat, and Advisor to the Central
Cultural Revolution Group. Boda, also known as Chen Boda, then a member of the Standing
Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Head of the Central
Cultural Revolution Group. Kang Sheng, then a member of the Standing Committee of the
Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Advisor to the Central Cultural Revolution
Group. Fuchun, also known as Li Fuchun, then a member of the Standing Committee of the
Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Secretariat.
Renzhong, also known as Wang Renzhong, then Deputy Head of the Central Cultural
Revolution Group and First Secretary of the Central-South Bureau. Jiang Qing, then Deputy
Head of the Central Cultural Revolution Group.
[3] On September 11, 1966, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
forwarded Mao Zedong's comments and Wang Xiaoyu's report to all central bureaus,
provincial, municipal, and autonomous regional party committees, and issued four specific



decisions prohibiting the mobilization of workers and peasants to interfere in the student
movement.
[4] On September 11, 1966, the People’s Daily published an editorial entitled “Workers,
peasants and revolutionary students unite under the banner of Mao Zedong Thought.”
[5] Guo Yingqiu, then secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party
of China and president of Renmin University of China.
[6] Tan Qilong, then first secretary of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Communist
Party of China.