Comrades Lin Biao, Enlai, Ye, Nie, and Xu [2]:
Please study whether Zhang Guohua, Zhou Renshan, Wang Qimei [3], and others are good
or bad people. Send me a telegram within a day or two to express your views. I sincerely
hope you will do so!
Some issues have been handled too slowly. The Xinjiang issue should be resolved quickly.
Mao Zedong
February 7
PS. Some other major issues have been handled too quickly, without the Standing
Committee having time for leisurely discussion. This seems inappropriate.
Already handled, filed.
Mao Zedong
February 8th

[1] On February 6, 1967, the CCP Tibet Military District Committee sent a telegram to the
Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Central Military Commission, and
the Central Cultural Revolution Group, stating that the "Lhasa Revolutionary Rebel
Headquarters" and its affiliated organizations considered Zhang Guohua a "counterrevolutionary revisionist" and that the Military District Party Committee was a "royalist" and
"black den." Unaware of the truth, the masses were in great unrest, and some cadres and
soldiers in the Military District headquarters and the troops stationed in Lhasa were also
experiencing ideological confusion. If this situation continued, the consequences would be
serious. Therefore, it was recommended that the Central Committee express its views on
Zhang Guohua as soon as possible. On February 12, the Central Military Commission replied
to the Tibet Military District. On February 24, the Central Cultural Revolution Group sent
another telegram to the "Lhasa Revolutionary Rebel Headquarters" and others, stating that
the Central Military Commission's telegram represented Chairman Mao and the Party
Central Committee and that the Central Cultural Revolution Group fully supported the
telegram's statement: Zhang Guohua stood with Chairman Mao's line. Although he had
shortcomings and mistakes in his work, he was fundamentally a good comrade. I hope the



comrades of the Military Region Party Committee will do some work among the
revolutionary masses.
[2] Lin Biao was then Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist
Party of China. Enlai is Zhou Enlai. Ye refers to Ye Jianying, Nie refers to Nie Rongzhen, and Xu
refers to Xu Xiangqian, all of whom were then Vice Chairmen of the Central Military
Commission of the Communist Party of China.
[3] Zhang Guohua, then First Secretary of the CPC Tibet Autonomous Region Committee and
Commander of the Tibet Military Region of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Yong
Renshan, then Secretary of the CPC Tibet Autonomous Region Secretariat and Vice Chairman
of the Tibet Autonomous Region People's Government. Wang Qimei, then Secretary of the
CPC Tibet Autonomous Region Secretariat.