It is advisable to postpone its establishment until the end of March, in accordance with the
Premier's opinion on the 10th [2].

[1] This comment was written on a report submitted by Premier Zhou Enlai to Mao Zedong
and others on March 9, 1967. The report stated that most revolutionary student
organizations in Tianjin were moving toward unification, with a meeting of the Red
Delegates' Congress held on the 5th. Workers' revolutionary organizations had been
organized systematically, with many now formed and totaling 170,000 members. The
revolutionary organizations among middle school students were less well-organized. They
planned to hold a consultative meeting this week to agree on the list of members of the
Revolutionary Committee and its Standing Committee. A mass rally was scheduled for the
12th, at which the establishment of the Revolutionary Committee, the provisional organ of
power in Tianjin, would be announced, along with a declaration.
[2] On March 10, 1967, Zhou Enlai called Xie Xuegong, First Secretary of the Tianjin
Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, and asked him to consider first
convening a meeting of representatives of revolutionary factions from universities, middle
schools, workers, peasants, and government agencies, and then convening a city-wide
consultative meeting of revolutionary organizations and a mass rally to announce the
procedures for establishing a revolutionary committee.