Comrades Lin Biao and Enlai [2]:
The Ganzhou issue is serious, involving more than ten counties in southern Jiangxi. If we
send a division there, we can only handle Nanchang, Ji'an, Yichun, Fuzhou, etc., and it is far
from enough to reach southern Jiangxi. Is it possible to send a division, or at least a
regiment, from the Guangzhou Military Region to Ganzhou, and then return to Guangdong
after the matter is resolved? Please consider this matter first and discuss it in person.
Mao Zedong
July 6

[1] This comment was written in "Excerpts from Mass Letters," No. 55, published by the
General Office of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China on July 4,
1967. This excerpt contained a July 4 telephone report from the Jiangxi Complaints Group
and the Jiangxi Ganzhou Complaints Group, which reported the severity of the armed
conflict in Ganzhou, with heavy casualties, food and water shortages, and complete traffic
congestion. They demanded that the central government immediately dispatch troops to
stop the fighting.
[2] Lin Biao was then Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist
Party of China. Enlai was Zhou Enlai