Comrade Lin Biao.
This piece is very good, with a grand tone, solid and not exaggerated. It is a summary of a
year of struggle.
Mao Zedong
9 p.m. on the 29th of September

[1] Lin Biao (who was re-elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Political
Bureau of the CPC Central Committee at the 11th Plenary Session of the 8th CPC Central
Committee and soon became Vice Chairman of the CPC Central Committee) drafted this
speech, which was discussed and revised by Zhou Enlai, Kang Sheng, advisor to the Central
Cultural Revolution Group, and other members of the group. It was later published in the
People's Daily on 2 October 1967