Comrade Nie Rongzhen:
This document [2] has been suppressed for a long time. I have read it today and it is very
good. It should be implemented.
Mao Zedong
October 25

[I] Nie Rongzhen was then a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee,
Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, Vice Premier of the State Council, and
Director of the National Defense Science and Technology Commission.
[2] This refers to Nie Rongzhen's report to Mao Zedong and others on September 20, 1967,
on a plan for adjusting and restructuring the national defense scientific research system.
Based on the relevant directives of the Central Committee, the report proposed: 1.
Comprehensive planning, overall arrangements, and rational adjustments and
reorganizations, reorganizing the national defense scientific research units approved for
takeover by the Central Committee into several research institutes. 2. Actively addressing
the shortage of trial production and processing capacity within these units to shorten the
development cycle. 3. Conscientiously carry out military control, carrying out takeover and
adjustments in a step-by-step manner, taking over and establishing each unit as conditions
mature, and striving to have them essentially all established by the first half of next year. On
November 9, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China forwarded Nie
Rongzhen's report and Mao Zedong's comments.