Comrade Wenyuan:
I suggest that this document be distributed nationwide. First, print a few copies and
distribute them to the relevant comrades. Then read it once at a meeting, revise it, and issue
it with comments. This is the best written document of its kind that I have read. I have heard
about the situation at this factory twice from individual comrades. Would you like to go
there to take a look and ask some questions?
Mao Zedong
May 19

[1] This report, published in the Xinhua News Agency's internal reference special issue,
"Cultural Revolution Trends," on May 12, 1968, stated that the Beijing Xinhua Printing
Factory Military Control Commission, in mobilizing the broad masses of revolutionary
workers to wage the struggle against the enemy, guided the masses to correctly handle two
different types of contradictions, uniting the majority while severely striking and isolating a
handful of class enemies. This was done with stability, precision, and strength. Their
experience is as follows: 1. We must firmly rely on the broad masses of revolutionary
workers while also adeptly guiding them; 2. We must firmly demand strict measures from
those who have committed serious errors while also maintaining unity; 3. We must severely
strike at a handful of class enemies, but also disintegrate them and point out a way out. On
May 25, 1968, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Central
Cultural Revolution Committee circulated this experience nationwide, requesting its
implementation. On September 28, 1979, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of
China approved a report by the Beijing Municipal Committee and the National Press and
Publication Administration regarding the complete rehabilitation of the Beijing Xinhua
Printing Factory incident. The report stated that the false experience document fabricated by
the "Gang of Four" at the Beijing Xinhua Printing Factory in 1968 should be repudiated; all
false accusations levelled against the factory's cadres should be overturned; and all unjust,
false, and wrongful convictions resulting from the incident should be redressed.