Comrades Lin, Zhou [1], and all comrades involved in the Cultural Revolution:
This [2] is a reply to the meeting request.
Please consider distributing this reply and this document to all localities for reference, and
take appropriate action.
Mao Zedong
23 September

[1] Lin, referring to Lin Biao, was re-elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the
Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee at the 11th Plenary Session of the 8th CPC
Central Committee and was soon appointed Vice Chairman of the CPC Central Committee.
Zhou, referring to Zhou Enlai.
[2] This refers to the report submitted by the Shanghai Revolutionary Committee to Mao
Zedong and others on 22 September 1968. The report states that, after more than two years
of the Cultural Revolution movement, there are now conditions and a necessity to absorb a
group of outstanding members from the rebel factions into the Party, thereby injecting fresh
blood into the Party. In accordance with Chairman Mao's instructions that "it is essential to
pay attention to the step-by-step admitting of politically conscious workers into the Party
and expanding the working-class composition of the Party organisation," we have decided to
first develop a group of outstanding revolutionary rebels from among Shanghai's industrial
workers to join the Party. Those admitted into the Party must be vibrant, advanced
proletarian elements who seriously study and implement Mao Zedong Thought, possess a
high level of awareness in the struggle between the two lines, and be capable of engaging in
resolute struggle against class enemies both within and outside the Party alongside the
revolutionary masses. They must persist in the struggle to fight self and repudiate
revisionism, engage in self-criticism, and continuously transform themselves with the
proletarian worldview. On 29 September 1968, the Central Committee of the Communist
Party of China and the Central Cultural Revolution Group endorsed this report, stating: "We
urge revolutionary committees in all regions to earnestly implement Chairman Mao's
instructions on party rectification and the development of new Party members, conduct
thorough investigative research, handle matters appropriately based on local conditions, and
formulate appropriate plans to be reported to the Central Committee."