Premier [2]: We should seize the power from the Yanbian counter-revolutionaries. Please
make arrangements. Mao Yuanxin [3] has been working in Yanbian for a month. There has
been a great improvement there. He is going to Harbin today. If he has not left yet, you can
talk to him.
Mao Zedong
January 21

[1] This report, dated January 19, 1967, from the Yanbian Autonomous Prefecture
Committee of the Communist Party of China to the Central Cultural Revolution Group, the
Northeast Bureau, and the Jilin Provincial Committee, states that at 3:00 PM on the 18th,
armed conflict broke out between the Yanbian "Proletarian Revolutionary Rebel
Headquarters" and the Yanbian "Proletarian Revolutionary Rebel Army" over the takeover of
the Yanbian Daily. Casualties have already resulted, and the scale of the conflict is likely to
escalate. The Prefecture Committee has sent representatives to both sides three times to
persuade them to send representatives to negotiate a solution, but to no avail. Now that
they lack trust in the Prefecture Committee, the Committee is unable to carry out its work,
and the situation has deteriorated significantly. The Central Cultural Revolution Committee is
urgently requested to call or telegraph both sides to stop the conflict.
[2] The Premier refers to Zhou Enlai.
[3] Mao Yuanxin, Mao Zedong's nephew, was then the head of the Heilongjiang Province Red
Rebel Revolutionary Committee.