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Mao Zedong
September 4

[1] This article is a comment on three documents submitted by Zhou Enlai for review on
September 4, 1966. Two of the three documents were telegrams from the CPC Central
Committee to the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and the Northwest Bureau, which



were issued as CPC Central Committee Document No. 451 and No. 452 of 1966. The two
telegrams pointed out respectively: "Based on the ethnic policy, the Central Committee
decided to adopt a protective policy towards Saifuding. Comrade Wang Enmao correctly
implemented the Central Committee's decision and did not shield Saifuding. This matter can
be officially announced to the masses. And explain to the students in Beijing that Xinjiang is
a region where ethnic minorities are the majority, and the Cultural Revolution movement
here must be to strengthen the unity of the Uyghur and Han nationalities and prevent the
Soviet revisionists and ethnic minority activists from instigating and exploiting it." "In order
to ensure border security and prevent Soviet revisionism from taking advantage of the
situation, the Central Committee decided that the Cultural Revolution in border areas such
as Ili, Tacheng, and Altai can use the "Four Bigs" to air opinions and expose problems in
schools, institutions, enterprises, and other units. The district party committee is responsible
for solving the problems by adjusting the leadership from top to bottom to meet the
demands of the masses, and not to use the method of "dismissal" by the masses directly. In
particular, it is necessary to dissuade students from other places from entering these areas
to make connections. Students from other places who have already gone there should be
persuaded and mobilized to leave. I hope you will strictly control this matter." Saifuding was
then the Secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Committee of the Communist
Party of China and the Chairman of the People's Committee of the Autonomous Region.
Wang Enmao was then the Secretary of the Northwest Bureau of the Communist Party of
China, the First Secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Committee, and the
Commander and Political Commissar of the Xinjiang Military Region of the Chinese People's
Liberation Army.