After being sent to the Premier for review, this document was passed to the Cultural
Revolution Group for further review and then returned to Comrade Lin Biao for safekeeping.
This document reflects the sentiments of many in the military during this period. Faced with
such situations, we should remain calm, work hard, promote our achievements, and correct
our mistakes. Problems can always be resolved.
Mao Zedong
May 10
This is the situation displayed by students and workers before Comrades Zhang Chunqiao
and Yao Wenyuan [2] arrived in Jinan. In fact, it wasn't that serious.

[1] This article is a commentary on a letter forwarded by Liu Bocheng, Vice Chairman of the
Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, on April 30, 1967, signed by
"All revolutionary masses in the Jinan Military Region and all support-left personnel in the
Jinan garrison." This letter, dated April 29, 1967, stated that the current anti-PLA winds in
Jinan have reached force 12. We are verbally abused daily, arrested, and detained at will.
The families of cadres are also beaten and insulted, and the children of military region
cadres are also subjected to daily beatings. The factories and enterprises we support have
been vandalized one after another. The revolutionary masses are already experiencing an
unprecedented white terror. We find it hard to believe that this is happening after the leftists
seized power. The series of events since their seizure of power show that they are not
following Chairman Mao's instructions, but rather following something called "Wang Xiaoyu
Thought." Perhaps because our PLA failed to follow their lead, they harbor resentment and
deceive the central government, stirring up this anti-PLA wind. We can't help but ask: Do
they still want the People's Liberation Army? Do they still want the working class? Do they
still want the poor and lower-middle peasants? Do they still want the vast majority of Party
and League members? Who exactly is this dictatorship being exercised over? Who is
exercising the dictatorship? When Liu Bocheng asked Ye Jianying, Vice Chairman of the
Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, and others to forward this
letter, he wrote: "Yesterday evening at 8:00 PM, a person claiming to be from the Political
Department of the Armored Forces of the Jinan Military Region said that our troops were
being attacked by Wang Xiaoyu's Red Guards. The situation was extremely tense. They urged



us to leave Jinan immediately and also asked me to pass on a letter to Chairman Mao and
Vice Chairman Lin." Mao Zedong emphasized this passage and wrote a comment, which is
the second part of this article. Wang Xiaoyu, then Director of the Shandong Provincial
Revolutionary Committee, was dismissed from his post in June 1970.
[2]  Zhang Chunqiao was then deputy head of the Cultural Revolution Group of the CPC
Central Committee. Yao Wenyuan was then a member of the Cultural Revolution Group of
the CPC Central Committee.