I agree. Please inform comrades in all regions that when carrying out the Criticism of Chen
and the Rectification Movement, the emphasis should be on criticizing Chen, and only then
on the rectification. Don't follow the example of the Military Commission symposium [3]
which lasted a month but did not criticize Chen at all. Even more, don't follow the example
of the early days in North China, when the criticism of Chen was neither severe nor itchy, as
was the case during the period when Li and Zheng [4] presided over the movement.

[1] Chen refers to Chen Boda.
[2] This comment was written on Zhou Enlai’s report to Mao Zedong on February 19, 1971,
regarding the situation of the National Planning Work Conference. The report stated that in
order to listen to opinions in a broad and in-depth manner, a Politburo meeting would be
held tonight to invite the main leaders of the regions and provinces, cities, and districts to
meet and solicit their opinions on this year’s plan and various tasks. At the same time, “we
also plan to discuss the issue of dissemination of the ‘Criticize Chen and Rectify the Work
Style’ campaign. Currently, the various military regions in North China are disseminating the
campaign within the scope recommended by the Beijing Military Region Party Committee
approved by the Chairman, and the results are very good. The whole country also plans to
follow the North China dissemination scope after they return tomorrow and the day after
tomorrow.” Zhou Enlai also mentioned several other issues to be discussed at the Central
Politburo meeting in his report.
[3] Refers to the symposium held by the Central Military Commission of the Communist
Party of China on January 9, 1971. From the 9th, all participants in the symposium
participated in the North China Conference.
[4] Li refers to Li Xuefeng, the former first political commissar of the Beijing Military Region
of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Zheng refers to Zheng Weishan, the former
commander of the Beijing Military Region of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. They co-chaired the early stages of the North China Conference. On the last day of the conference,
January 24, 1971, they were announced to be "transferred from their original positions and
continue to undergo self-examination and study." On December 6, 1979, the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the "Notice on Rehabilitation of the So-
called 'North China Mountaintopism'" to rehabilitate them.