This document [1] is very useful and may be circulated to other places for reference. Please
send it to Lin, Zhou, and other comrades of the Cultural Revolution for their consideration.
Mao Zedong,
September 29

[1] This refers to the report submitted by the Shanghai Revolutionary Committee to Mao
Zedong and others on September 27, 1968, regarding the work of the Workers' Propaganda
Teams in primary and secondary schools. The report stated that from September 5 to 12, we
organized over 31,000 industrial workers to enter 513 middle schools and 1,249 primary
schools across ten districts. Under the leadership of the Workers' Propaganda Team, all
primary and secondary schools in the city reopened on September 16, with teachers and
students flocking to the schools. After the reopening, various Mao Zedong Thought study
sessions were held in various schools. Under the leadership and assistance of the Workers'
Propaganda Team, some schools and classes that had previously been stagnant in the Great
Revolutionary Unity were able to unite. For schools that had resumed classes and were
doing well in the revolution, the Workers' Propaganda Team focused on strengthening
political and ideological work to address existing problems. Furthermore, the Workers'
Propaganda Team has done extensive work to rectify school ethos and establish a new
revolutionary order. Currently, to address existing problems, we are organizing the Workers'
Propaganda Team to carefully study Chairman Mao's latest directives and launch the "Four
Good Companies" and "Five Good Soldiers" campaigns 20. At the same time, we conducted
in-depth investigations and research to prepare for the launch of a major revolutionary
criticism campaign and the cleansing of the class ranks, exploring experiences, establishing
models, and gradually expanding our efforts. On October 7, 1968, the Central Committee of

20 The five good soldiers were those who were "studying hard, taking good care of weapons and equipment
and all public property, eliminating accidents, producing and saving well, and exercising well." These criteria
were introduced in 1958. In December 1961, Lin Biao proposed in the "Instructions on the Political Work of the
Army in 1961" that the company's work mainly focuses on four aspects, namely: grasping political work and
revitalizing ideology; grasping the style is the style of 3-8; grasp military training; grasp life. The “3” of the 3-8
style was: firm and correct political direction, hard and simple work style, and flexible strategy and tactics; the
“8” comprises the words unity, tension, seriousness, and liveliness (each written with two characters in
Chinese). The words come from the school motto of the Chinese People’s Anti-Japanese Military and Political
University in Yan’an.  Mao Zedong was the chairman of its Education Committee. In September 1971, the Four
Good Company Movement was terminated.



the Communist Party of China and the Central Cultural Revolution Committee forwarded this
report.