Comrade Boda:
(1) We should reply and agree to follow their advice; (2) Please ask the Provincial Party
Committee to write down some specific provisions and report to the Central
Committee after doing some more work and gaining more experience. Please
proceed with the above.
Mao Zedong
December 28

[1] This refers to a report submitted by the Cultural Revolution Office of the Heilongjiang
Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China to the Central Cultural Revolution
Group on December 25, 1966, regarding several issues urgently requiring clarification
regarding the implementation of the Cultural Revolution in urban and rural areas. The report
stated that, with the full-scale deployment of the Cultural Revolution in urban and rural
areas, the Cultural Revolution in most urban streets would also be vigorously launched, and
many issues urgently needed clarification. These issues were primarily: 1. The focus of the
street movement. We believe it should be to struggle against the handful of capitalist
roaders in power within the Party (responsible cadres at the street office level and above), as
well as unreformed landlords, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries, bad elements, and
rightists, and reactionary bourgeois elements. 2. We do not believe that the directors of
street neighbourhood committees are considered to be in power. 3. In the street Cultural
Revolution, we believe we should rely on the families of employees from worker, poor
peasant, and lower-middle peasant families, as well as the revolutionary masses, and unite
with other working people. 4. The street Cultural Revolution should be carried out in
conjunction with the "Four Cleanups" campaign. Municipal and district committees may
send personnel to inspect and understand the situation, but they will not interfere or lead.
5. The class situation within the neighbourhoods is quite complex, and some undesirable
elements have joined and taken control of mass organizations. What policy should be
adopted toward them?