Comrade Lin Biao:
You can publish it in the newspapers and broadcast it so that the army comrades will see it.
There is no need to print it again. If you agree, please return it to the Cultural Revolution
Group.
Mao Zedong
February 27, 10:00

[1] Zhang Riqing, then serving as the political commissar of the Shanxi Provincial Military
Region of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, wrote to Lin Biao, Vice Chairman of the
Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, during an interrogation on
February 25, 1967, when Chen Boda, editor-in-chief of Red Flag magazine, and his deputy
editors-in-chief, Wang Li and Guan Feng, presented this article to Lin Biao, the Vice Chairman
of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China. The article read, "This
article was commissioned by Red Flag magazine and written by Comrade Zhang Riqing. We
think it is excellent and intend to publish it soon. We would also like to recommend that the
Military Commission distribute it to all comrades at the army-level cadre conference for
reference." Lin Biao reviewed it and forwarded it to Mao Zedong, who inscribed his
comments on the draft submitted by Chen Boda and others. Zhang Riqing's article was
published in the People's Daily on February 28, 1967, and in the fourth issue of Red Flag
magazine on March 1.