This can be distributed [2].

[1] This refers to a report published in the Gansu Daily on December 10, 1968. The report
stated that, guided by Chairman Mao's proletarian revolutionary line, some urban residents
in Huining County, Gansu Province, long separated from the workforce, had flocked to the
front lines of agricultural production, settling in rural areas and determined to become
workers with socialist consciousness. Currently, 178 households and 932 people in the
county have settled in production teams in 13 communes. On December 22, the People's
Daily reprinted this report with an editor's note.
[2] This comment was written on a report submitted to Mao Zedong for review by Yao
Wenyuan, a member of the Cultural Revolution Group of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of China, on December 19, 1968. In his report, Yao Wenyuan wrote: "This
material was originally published in the Gansu Daily on December 10th. I find it quite good.
After verification, I have added a note and have compiled and quoted a passage from your
latest directive to implement the 'mobilization'." The editorial note from the People's Daily,
submitted by Yao Wenyuan for review, noted: "Some urban residents of Huining County,
Gansu Province, who have long been out of work, including a group of educated youth, have
flocked to the socialist countryside to settle down there. This is a new trend worthy of
vigorous promotion. They say, 'We have two hands too; we won't live off the land in the
city!' This is quite true." "I hope that the vast majority of educated youth and urban
residents who have been out of work will enthusiastically respond to Chairman Mao's great
call and go to the front lines of agricultural production!" The Gansu Daily report originally
stated: "Urban residents who have been out of productive labour to settle down in the
countryside and participate in agricultural production is a century-long plan to prevent and
combat revisionism and is the correct way to gradually eliminate the urban-rural divide."
During Mao Zedong's review, he deleted the phrase "is the correct way to gradually
eliminate the urban-rural divide." When the People's Daily reprinted this sentence, it was
amended to read, "This is the correct path to gradually narrow the urban-rural gap."