We must ensure that they remain detached from the masses, do not abandon their work,
and continue to work. [1]

[1] This is what Mao Zedong said during the Ninth National Congress of the Communist Party
of China in April 1969, when he was discussing some grassroots cadres who had been newly
elected to the Central Committee. On November 21 of the same year, the People's Daily
published this statement on its front page.