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159 From a speeh delivered at the working conference convened by the CPC
Central Committee in Beijing on June 12, 1961. P. 346
160 The policy of developing several industries simultaneously involves a whole
set of policies for “walking on two legs”, such as: while giving priority to the develop-
ment of heavy industry, industry and agriculture, and heavy and light industry should
develop simultaneously; under centralized leadership, overall planning and due divi-
sion of labour, central and local industry, and large, medium-sized and small enter-
prises should develop simultaneously. In his report delivered at the Second Session
of the Eighth National Congress of the CPC in May 1958, Liu Shaoqi gave a general
idea of the policy of developing several industries simultaneously while elucidating
the main points of the general line for socialist construction. PP. 346, 402
161 Mao Zedong, “The Summing-Up of Ten Years”, June 18, 1960. P. 347
162 Cf. “Get Organized” Selected Works of Mao Zedong, Eng. ed., FLP, Bei-
jing, 1975, Vol. III, pp. 158-59. P. 353
163 Mao Zedong stressed this point on many occasions to vast numbers of cadres
and intellectuals in his articles, speeches and inscriptions. For instance, in the article
“Talks at the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art” of 1942 he pointed out, “Only
by speaking for the masses can one educate them and only by being their pupil can
one be their teacher” (Selected Works of Mao Zedong, Eng. ed., FLP, Beijing, 1975,
Vol. III, pp. 84-85). In “Methods of Work of Party Committees” in 1949 he said, “We
should listen carefully to the views of the cadres at the lower levels. Be a pupil be-
fore you become a teacher” (Selected Works of Mao Zedong, Eng. ed., FLP, Beijing,
1975. Vol. IV, p. 378). In 1950 he wrote an inscription for the Changsha No. 1 Normal
School in Hunan Province, “Be a pupil of the people before you become their teacher.”
In “Speech at the Chinese Communist Party’s National Conference on Propaganda
Work” in 1957 he also pointed out, “Our writers and artists, scientists and technicians,
professors and teachers are all educating students, educating the people. Being educa-
tors and teachers, they have the duty to be educated first. . . . To be a good teachcr,
one must first be a good pupil.” (Selected Works of Mao Zedong, Eng. ed., FLP, Bei-
jing, 1977, Vol. V, pp. 425-26). P. 353
164 This was written on April 29, 1959 to cadres at provincial, prefectural and
county levels as well as cadres of people’s communes, production brigades and pro-
duction teams. The six questions were: 1) fixing farm output quotas for peasant house-
holds; 2) close planting; 3) economizing on the use of grain; 4) extending the sown
acreage; 5) agricultural mechanization; and 6) the importance of speaking the truth.
The gist of the message was to criticize boasting and exaggeration and encourage an
attitude of seeking truth from facts. P. 356
165 The “Decision on Training Cadres in Rotation” was issued by the CPC Cen-
tral Committee on September 15, 1961. At that time, as was stated in the decision,
the Central Committee considered it most important to launch a new, Party-wide drive
for study and, therefore, decided that all Party cadres holding leading posts at dif-
ferent levels and in various fields should attend, group by group, a short-term train-
ing course. The purpose was to help Party cadres better understand and grasp the
objective laws governing socialist construction, overcome one-sidedness in their
thinking and mistakes in their practical work, conscientiously master a Marxist-Lenin-
ist style of work and correct the mistakes of being divorced from both reality and
the masses, running counter to Party policies and violating discipline. P. 356
166 V. I. Lenin, “ ‘Left-Wing’ Communism — An Infantile Disorder”, Selected
Works, Eng. ed., Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1971, Vol. III, pp. 351-52. P. 361