Agreed in principle.
July 3, 6:00 PM

[I] On July 3, 1969, Zhou Enlai wrote to Mao Zedong, stating that before the Chairman's
departure, he had reported on the reorganization of the State Council's working group, the
merger, abolition, and streamlining of various State Council ministries and commissions, and
the preparations for establishing revolutionary committees and leading groups in various
units. He also raised the question of how the various units of the Party Central Committee
should be reformed. The Chairman then instructed that the agreed-upon principles be
followed. Regarding the Party Central Committee, the Central Cultural Revolution Group
(which was later not retained as a permanent central agency), the General Office, the
Organization Department, and the Liaison Department were to be retained. The Propaganda
Department, the Investigation Department, and the Supervisory Commission were to be
decentralized, merged, or abolished. The State Council's working group consisted of nine
people: Zhou Enlai, Xie Fuzhi, Li Xiannian, Ji Dengkui, Li Desheng, Li Fuchun, Yu Qiuli, Su Yu,
and Su Jing. Zhou Enlai was the group leader, with Li Xiannian and Ji Dengkui serving as
deputy group leaders. Li Zhen, Qiu Guoguang, and Liu Xiyao were in attendance. The 62
departments under the State Council were to be merged into 21 units, with a total of
210,000 administrative personnel to be decentralized. In accordance with the Chairman's
instructions, the military control leaders from six units—the United Front Work Department,
the National People's Congress, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the
Ethnic Affairs Commission, the Religious Affairs Bureau, and the organs of the democratic
parties—are combined into a single group. I will send one person to liaise with them. Mao
Zedong's comments are inscribed on this report by Zhou Enlai.