A few sentences have been deleted. [2] Please read this with Comrade Lin Biao [3], and then
return it to Zhou Enlai, Chen Boda, Kang Sheng, and Jiang Qing [4].
Don't use these two sentences.
It's not good to delete it, but there's no need to rewrite it. [5]
Mao Zedong
November 25th, 2:00 PM

[1] This notice compiled the first wave of opinions received following the issuance of the
Central Committee's "Notice on Soliciting Opinions on the Ninth National Congress." Its main
contents included the fundamental tasks of the Ninth National Congress, building the Party
with Mao Zedong Thought and revising the Party Program and Constitution, summarizing
the experience of and conducting education on the struggle between lines, rectifying the
Party's organization and reforming its leading bodies, the conditions and criteria for electing
the Central Committee, and the timing, scale, selection of delegates, and methods of
convening the Ninth National Congress. On November 21, 1967, Zhou Enlai, Chen Boda,
Kang Sheng, and Jiang Qing submitted the draft notice to Mao Zedong for review. The notice
stated: "In accordance with the Chairman's instructions earlier this month, Comrades Kang
Sheng and Wenyuan collected and reviewed opinions from various localities and units and
drafted this notice. The notice was discussed and revised at the expanded group meeting on
the evening of the 20th. We now submit a revised reprint for your review and approval."
This notice was distributed on November 27.
[2] While reviewing the draft, Mao Zedong made two deletions and revisions: First, in the
section on the most fundamental tasks of the Ninth National Congress, he deleted the
phrase "highly uphold the absolute authority of the great leader Chairman Mao and the
great Mao Zedong Thought, and highly uphold the absolute authority of Chairman Mao's
proletarian revolutionary line," and wrote a comment, which is now part 2 of this article.
Second, in this section, he also deleted the three words "and good student" from the
sentence "The Ninth National Congress should vigorously publicize that Vice Chairman Lin



was Chairman Mao's close comrade-in-arms and good student." Furthermore, some minor
wording was revised, primarily in the section on rectifying the Party organization and
reforming the leadership, changing the sentence "Make the Party organization a contingent
of advanced elements of the proletariat, a vigorous vanguard organization capable of leading
the class and the masses in the fight against class enemies" to "Make the Party organization
a contingent of advanced elements of the proletariat, a vigorous vanguard organization
capable of leading the working class and the revolutionary masses in the fight against class
enemies."
[3] Lin Biao was re-elected to the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC
Central Committee at the 11th Plenary Session of the 8th CPC Central Committee and was
soon named Vice Chairman of the CPC Central Committee.
[4] Chen Boda, then a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC
Central Committee and head of the Central Cultural Revolution Group. Kang Sheng, then a
member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee
and advisor to the Central Cultural Revolution Group. Jiang Qing, then deputy head of the
Central Cultural Revolution Group.
[5] This comment was written on a telephone transcript compiled by Lin Biao's office on
November 25, 1967. The transcript states, "Comrade Lin Biao instructed by telephone that
he advocated deleting the entire third paragraph on page 2, or rewording it to be more
toned down. He believed the original text gave him too high a compliment." The full text of
the third paragraph on page 2 of the CPC Central Committee's bulletin reads, "Many
comrades suggested that the Ninth National Congress should vigorously publicize Vice
Chairman Lin as Chairman Mao's close comrade-in-arms and good student, and Chairman
Mao's successor, and that this should be included in the Ninth National Congress's report
and resolutions, thus further enhancing Vice Chairman Lin's lofty prestige." Lin Biao saw the
draft that had been reviewed and revised by Mao Zedong, in which the three words "and
good student" following "Chairman Mao's close comrade-in-arms" in this paragraph had
been deleted by Mao.