Comrade Boda and fellow group members: (1) These two points [1] are excellent. (2) Within
two or three days, please draft a congratulatory telegram [2] for the Central Committee, the
State Council, and the Central Military Commission to the revolutionary rebel groups in
Shanghai, pointing out the correctness of their policies and actions and calling on the Party,
government, military, and people throughout the country to learn from Shanghai's
experience and act in unison. Once the message is drafted, hold a large meeting to approve
and publish it.
Mao Zedong
January 10, 5:00 AM
PS. Don't post the document on anti-economism [3]. This one from Shanghai [4] is good. But
I need to write an explanatory article [5].

[1] Refers to two Xinhua News Agency reports submitted by Jiang Qing, Deputy Head of the
Cultural Revolution Group of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, on
January 10, 1967: "Shanghai Revolutionary Rebels Launch a General Offensive Against the
Bourgeois Reactionary Line—Reporters from Wenhui Daily and Jiefang Daily Comment on
the Current Favorable Situation of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in Shanghai" and
"Shanghai Workers' Revolutionary Rebel General Headquarters and Other Revolutionary
Rebel Organizations Issue an Urgent Notice in Wenhui Daily and Jiefang Daily." These two
reports were published in People's Daily and other newspapers on January 12, 1967.
[2] This congratulatory message was sent on January 11, 1967, and published in the People's
Daily and other newspapers on January 12.
[3] This refers to the notice of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on
opposing economism, submitted for review by Chen Boda and Jiang Qing on January 9,
1967. This notice was subsequently issued by the Secretariat of the General Office of the
Central Committee on January 13, 1967, and dated January 11.
[4] This refers to the "Emergency Notice" issued by 32 rebel organizations, including the
Shanghai Workers' Revolutionary Rebel Headquarters, in Wenhui Daily and Jiefang Daily on
January 9, 1967.
[5] On January 12, 1967, the People's Daily published an editorial entitled "Oppose
Economism and Smash the New Counterattack of the Bourgeois Reactionary Line."