Lin, Zhou, and other Cultural Revolution comrades:
Please consider whether this document [2] can be forwarded to various places, and add a
few words of encouragement.
Mao Zedong
July 18

[1] Refers to the proclamation issued by the CPC Central Committee, the State Council, the
Central Military Commission and the Central Cultural Revolution Group on July 3, 1968.
[2] This refers to a report submitted by the Hunan Garrison's Leading Group for Supporting
the Left to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and other organizations
on July 15, 1968, regarding the promotion and implementation of the "July 3rd
Proclamation." The report stated that the July 3rd Proclamation issued by the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of China, the State Council, the Central Military
Commission, and the Central Cultural Revolution Group was Chairman Mao's great strategic
plan. The Hunan Garrison promptly disseminated and implemented it to the troops. A mass
movement to study and publicize the "July 3rd Proclamation" quickly developed within each
unit, achieving increasingly significant results. As a result of this publicity, some individuals
voluntarily surrendered their weapons, withdrew from their fortifications, and ceased
fighting. From practice, everyone realized that implementing the Proclamation required
vigorous publicity, starting with political and ideological approaches and fully mobilizing the
masses. On July 19, the CPC Central Committee, the State Council, the Central Military
Commission, and the Central Cultural Revolution Committee forwarded this report from the
Hunan Garrison Supporting the Left Leading Group to various regions, emphasizing the
importance of extensively and thoroughly disseminating the July 3rd Proclamation to the
masses. They demanded that all regions "immediately review the progress of propaganda
work, tighten it up where it has been lacking, and quickly strengthen it where leadership is
ineffective," and "strive to ensure that it reaches deep into the hearts of the people and is
known to every household."