Comrades Lin Biao and Enlai, for your perusal.
The Red Rage in Zhejiang is different from the Million Heroes in Hubei [2]. This is an old rebel
group that has made mistakes. Many people seem to agree with Comrade Yao Wenyuan's
opinion, adhering to the principles of assistance, criticism, and unity. Please discuss and
decide what to do.
Mao Zedong
November 22

[1] This is a commentary on the article "Comrades Nan Ping and Chen Liyun Disagree on
Uniting with the 'Red Storm' Faction," published in issue 5510 of the "Kuai Bao" published by
the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's Cultural Revolution Group in
November 1967. The article states that on November 16, during a discussion of the grand
revolutionary unity at the Zhejiang Provincial Military Control Commission, Nan Ping, the
political commissar of the 20th Army, and Chen Liyun, the political commissar of the 5th Air
Force, disagreed on whether to unite with the "Red Storm" (a mass organization at Zhejiang
University). Nan Ping believed that the policy of unity and education should be adopted
towards revolutionary rebel organizations that had made mistakes. The Zhejiang University
"Red Storm" and the "Medical University Corps" were old rebels who had made mistakes.
Now that they were willing to return to Chairman Mao's revolutionary line, they should be
united with, and the tactics of division and disintegration should no longer be adopted. Chen
Liyun believed that organizations like the Zhejiang University "Red Violence" and the
"Medical University Corps" had made errors in their direction and line, and had not yet
corrected them. To maintain the purity of the rebel faction, they could not unite with them
and must resist. On November 21st, Yao Wenyuan, a member of the Central Committee of
the Communist Party of China's Cultural Revolution Group, submitted this material to Mao
Zedong, writing: "I think that of the two opinions, the Nanping faction's seems to be more
consistent with the Chairman's line and policies; adopting a policy of total exclusion and
refusal to unite with the 'Red Violence' faction would be disadvantageous."
[2] The "Million Heroes" was a mass organization in Wuhan. During the July 20 Incident in
Wuhan in 1967, it was wrongly labelled a "counter-revolutionary organization." On
November 26, 1978, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China forwarded the
"Request for Instructions on the Handling of the July 20 Incident" from the Hubei Provincial



Committee, the Provincial Revolutionary Committee, and the Wuhan Military Region Party
Committee, rehabilitating the "Million Heroes" mass organization.