Comrade Yao Wenyuan [2]:
The four experiences gained from Jiangxi work seem worth sharing with other places for
reference. Please consult with all comrades and make your own decisions.
Mao Zedong
November 16
This phenomenon exists in many places across the country.

[1] This article is a critique of the article "The Jiangxi Provincial Revolutionary Preparatory
Group Should Pay Attention to Working Methods," published in Express No. 5414, compiled
by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's Cultural Revolution Group
Office on November 30, 1967. The article states that the Jiangxi Provincial Revolutionary
Preparatory Group, in implementing the Central Committee's decisions on handling the
Jiangxi issue, adhered to Chairman Mao's teachings and paid attention to working methods.
Its experience is as follows: 1. Focusing on the central task, it sought living role models and
used the masses to educate the masses. At critical moments in the movement, it adopted
the method of using role models to inspire the general public. 2. Going deep into the
masses, listening to their opinions, and grasping their living thoughts. 3. Sending large
numbers of Mao Zedong Thought propaganda teams to carry out propaganda work in
factories, mines, and rural areas, in conjunction with the central task, and promoting
revolution and production. The Provincial Revolutionary Preparatory Group believed that a
major reason for the failure of the situation to improve rapidly was that Chairman Mao's
voice was not being heard. (After this sentence, Mao Zedong included a critique in brackets,
which is the second part of this article.) 4. Persisting in studying Chairman Mao's works to
promote their own revolutionization.
[2] Yao Wenyuan was a member of the Cultural Revolution Group of the Central Committee
of the Communist Party of China at that time.