GANG SCORED FOR OPPOSING PLANNED ECONOMY
Peking KUANG-MING JIH-PAO in Chinese 31 Oct 77 p 3

[article by Wu Chia-pei, Chang Shou-i and Chiu Chuan-ying: "Criticizing
the Fallacies of the 'Gang of Four’ Against Planned Economy"]

[Summary] "In their scheme to undermine socialism and disrupt the entire
socialist economy so as to usurp party and state power and restore capitalism
amid the chaos, the 'Gang of Four' concocted all kinds of fallacies, fever-
ishly opposed the socialist planned economy and went all-out to promote
liberalization of the economy." Because of their interference and disruption
our national economy was reduced to a state of semi-anarchy. We must thorough-
ly criticize the fallacies they spread to sabotage planned economy.

"Tn a periodical under their control, the 'Gang of Four' preached that the
practice of planned economy was by no means ‘a criterion for determining the
nature of a state,’ Theysaid: 'The allegation that the mere practice of
planned economy means socialism doesn't hold water.'" This was most pre-
posterous and reactionary.

"Marxism holds that the practice of planned economy is an essential feature
distinguishing the socialist system from the capitalist system and is an
important indication of the tremendous advantages of socialism." The dictator-
ship of the proletariat and public ownership of the means of production are
two basic requirements necessary for practicing planned economy. "The 'Gang
of Four' severed the inner organic link between planned economy and socialist
production relations and obliterated the differences between socialism and
capitalism, declaring that capitalist :countries also develop their economies
‘in a planned way' and that the social-imperialist country of the Soviet Union
‘is still practicing planned economy.' This was a flagrant attempt to em-
bellish capitalism and social-imperialism."

In a capitalist country it is impossible to run the entire national economy
according to a unified plan, because the means of production belong to the

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HAINAN HOLDS MEETING ON MATERNITY, INFANT WELFARE WORK
Haikow Hainan Island Regional Service in Mandarin 0430 GMT 8 Oct 77 HK

[Summary] The Hainan Regional Women's Federation, Public Health Bureau and
Education Bureau recently held a joint on-the-spot meeting in Tingan County
on maternity and infant welfare work. "The meeting demanded that, under

the unified leadership of their party committees, departments concerned at
all levels closely cooperate with each other, seriously implement Chairman Hua's
strategic policy decision on grasping the key link in running the country
well, and do a further good job in general examination and treatment of
women's diseases in the rural area and in consolidating and developing
infants' education and the organization of nurseries. They should make
necessary contributions to unfettering the women's labor forces, promoting
the levels of women's and children's health, giving better play to the women's
role as half the universe in the movement to learn from Ta-chai in agricul-
ture and cultivating successors to the proletarian revolutionary cause."

The meeting was attended and addressed by leading comrades of the regional
party committee. During the meeting the representatives visited progressive
maternity and infant welfare units in Tingan County and extensively summed
up and exchanged experiences. The meeting affirmed: "Our region has achieved
certain results in maternity and infant welfare work. However, many weak
links still exist, and we are still far from the requirements of the current
excellent situation. We must catch up with the current excellent situation."

The meeting pointed out: "Maternity and infant welfare work is an indispensable
component part of the socialist cause. To do this work well is of important
significance for unfettering the women's labor forces, promoting the movement
to learn from Ta-chai in agriculture, developing socialist production, consoli-
dating the dictatorship of the proletariat and cultivating successors to the
proletarian revolutionary cause. Leadership at all levels and departments
concerned must therefore deepen their understanding and put maternity and
infant welfare work in the proper place. In close coordination with one
another, women's federations, public health departments and education depart-
ments at all levels must give full play to their subjective role of conscious
activity, seriously run points, cultivate typical examples, sum up and popu-
larize progressive experiences and lead the work over areas by means of the
experiences gained at points. They should grasp maternity and infant welfare
work firmly and well.

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HUPEH FORUM URGES STEPPED-UP FIGHT AGAINST SCHISTOSOMIASIS
Wuhan Hupeh Provincial Service in Mandarin 1300 GMT 7 Oct 77 HK

[Summary] "Three October was the 19th anniversary of the promulgation of
great leader and teacher Chairman Mao's brilliant poem ‘Farewell to the God
of Plague.’ The Hupeh Provincial CCP and revolutionary committees recently
held a forum and conducted commemorative activities. A responsible comrade
of the Hupeh Provincial Revolutionary Committee delivered a speech at the
forum."

Representatives of provincial organs, PLA units stationed in Wuhan, factories,
mines and other enterprises, medical colleges and medical scientific research
units present at the forum restudied Chairman Mao's brilliant poem and remem-
pered Chairman Mao's warm concern for the people of the plague-stricken areas.

"In the past 20 years, under the guidance of Chairman Mao's revolutionary
line, party organizations at all levels in the plague-stricken areas of
Hupeh have taken class struggle as the key link and, in connection with the
movement to learn from Ia-chai in agriculture, vigorously fought a people's
war of sending off the God of Plague. They achieved very great results.

"The area of snails in the province has been reduced by 78 percent and the
number of patients by 65 percent; a group of counties, communes and brigades
which have basically eliminated schistosomiasis has emerged. A profound
transformation has occurred in the features of the plague-stricken areas.

The health of the people has improved, and agricultural production has been
promoted. There is a prosperous scene of 'The spring wind blows amid profuse
willow wands."

"With the smashing of the "gang of four," the prevention of schistosomiasis
must be promoted in a big way. Since the beginning of last year the mass
movements to learn from Ta-chai in agriculture and from Yukiang in the
prevention of schistosomiasis have developed in plague-stricken areas through-
out the province. Some 7.46 million laborers have plunged into the elimina-
tion of snails, and the area of (?insured) elimination of snails has increased
by 20 percent over the same period last year."

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"1, It is essential to persist in the Marxist principle that 'the party must
lead everything.'"

In the period of socialist revolution, Chairman Mao pointed out: "The
Chinese Communist Party is the core of leadership of the whole Chinese people.
Without this core the cause of socialism cannot be victorious." Chairman Mao
also said: "Of the seven sectors--industry, agriculture, commerce, culture
and education, the army, the government and the party--it is the party that
exercises overall leadership." We have won tremendous victories in the new
democratic revolution and in the socialist revolution simply because Chairman
Mao built the party well ideologically, politically and organizationally, and
persisted in upholding the Marxist principle that "the party must lead every-
thing."

“The Wang-Chang-Chiang-Yao Gang of Four were a bunch of vicious enemies of
Marxism, They feared and hated most the tremendous victories won by the
Chinese people under the leadership of the party. Proceeding from their
counterrevolutionary deeds they tried a thousand and one ways to oppose the
principle that the party must lead everything."

They ranted about “using mass organizations to replace the party" and "kick-
ing party committees aside to make revolution," Without the Communist Party
there will be no new China, nor will there be victories in socialist revolu-
tion and construction. Without the party committees, how can we make revolu-
tion? What the Gang of Four sought to make was not revolution but counter-
revolution. They tried to topple the Communist Party and kick aside the
party committees at all levels which persisted in upholding Chairman Mao's
revolutionary line and dared to struggle against the gang. They also re-
cruited new-born counterrevolutionary.elements and those who engaged in beat-
ing, smashing and looting to carry out the criminal activities to usurp
party and state leadership and replace the party with the gang.

"Under the control and influence of the Gang of Four, some units disobeyed the
party committees and refused to follow the party's decisions. Some of the
units substituted their factions for the party committees, placed themselves
above the party committees and issued orders and directives themselves, thus
seriously disrupting the centralized and unified leadership of the party.

In areas and units where the Gang of Four extended their tentacles the party
organizations were paralyzed, communication lines were interrupted, factories
stopped production and capitalist trends became rampant."

The party Central Committee headed by Chairman Hua smashed the Gang of Four,
crushed their bourgeois factionalist setup and strengthened the party's leader-
ship. Profound changes have rapidly taken place in revolution and production
in areas and units where the Gang of Four had tight control. Facts prove

that the revolution will win victories and production will surge, once the
party's leadership is strengthened, and that the revolution will suffer set-
backs and production will be disrupted if the party's leadership is weakened

or undermined.



PEKING PAPER CALLS FOR FURTHER INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS
Peking JEN-MIN JIH-PAO in Chinese 4 Nov 77 p 2 HK
[Short commentary: "Make Continuous Efforts"]

[Summary] As the year draws to a close and at a time when many factories,
mines and other enterprises have fulfilled or are about to fulfill the state
plan ahead of schedule, it is particularly necessary to promote the spirit
of making continuous efforts.

"Under the guidance of wise leader Chairman Hua's strategic policy decision
on grasping the key link in running the country well, the situation on the
industry and communications front, as on other fronts, is excellent. At
present a salient feature of this excellent situation is that in the course
of the great struggle to deeply expose and criticize the counterrevolutionary
revisionist line of the 'Gang of Four,’ many factories, mines and other enter-
prises have fulfilled the state plan for the whole year ahead of schedule.
Due to the interference and sabotage of the 'Gang of Four,’ some enterprises
had for a time fallen behind. But they have caught up, joined the ranks of
the advanced enterprises and will attain the target set for the year. Con-
fronted by this excellent situation, two different attitudes might be adopted:
to rest contentedly on the results already achieved and to refuse to make
further progress, or to make continuous efforts by taking the over-all situa-
tion into consideration, emulating the advanced and continuously advancing

on the basis of one dividing into two. We favor the latter attitude, not the
former."

Even though many factories, mines and other enterprises have overfulfilled
the state plan, due to the interference and sabotage of the "Gang of Four"
some targets and standards were not sufficiently high. Therefore it is neces—
sary for us to redouble our efforts in order to advance toward higher stand-
ards.

"The initial success achieved this year is the first step toward achieving

great success within 3 years. Besides striving to further raise the level
of production, it is also urgently necessary for those enterprises which

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"Under the guidance of Chairman Hua's strategic policy decision on grasping
the key link in running the country well, we must persist in taking the
class struggle as the key link and penetratingly expose and vehemently
criticize the 'gang of four's' crimes in interfering with and sabotaging
maternity and infant welfare work. We must eliminate the remnant poison and
influence of their revisionist line, strengthen political and ideological
work and lead the masses to thoroughly break with the old traditional concepts
to get rid of the ideological obstacles to doing a good job in maternity and
infant welfare work. We must seriously cultivate and train backbone elements
and set up a Red and expert force for maternity and infant welfare work. We
must constantly heighten the level of infants' education and the technical
level of preventing and treating women's diseases. We must seriously imple-
ment the socialist distribution principle, rationally solve the question of
payment for labor of the personnel engaged in rural maternity and infant
welfare work and in infants' education, and give full play to their active
role in maternity and infant welfare work."

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CONTENTS (Continued)

Hainan County's Highways

Kirin Railway Construction
Reroute Rail Section

Extend Bus Line

State Plans Fulfilled

New Superspeed Drill

Light Industry Production

Anhwei County Cooperative Profits
Salvage Scrap Materials

Chekiang Zeolite Deposits
Kwangtung County Postal, Telecommunications
Szechwan's Industrial Production
Hai-Nan Cement Plants

Hupeh Power Generator

Kwangsi's Electricity Output

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL

'KUANG-MING JIH-PAO' Stresses Importance of Laboratory Work
(Chou Pin; KUANG-MING JIH-PAO, 19 Oct 77) sessseeeee

Szechwan Party Decrees Strengthened Scientific, Technical
Work
(Editorial; Szechwan Provincial Service,
18 Oct 77) -- eee eee e ec eeeeeeens

Tientsin Researchers Develop Precision Flight Locator
(Tientsin City Service, 21 Oct 77) wssceceeececeeeee

Chemistry Professor Discusses Modernization of Science,
Technology
(Tang Ao-ching Interview; Peking Domestic Service,
18 OCb 77) ceceeccecceecccnnccneeenseeneeeeseenseeee

Hupeh Forum Urges Stepped-Up Fight Against Schistosomiasis
(Hupeh Provincial Service, 7 Oct 77) ssecseeeeseeeee

'KIANGSI JIH-PAO' Article on Eliminating Schistosomiasis
(Kiangsi Provincial Service, 4 Sep 77) ..c.sseeeeees

Hainan Holds Meeting on Maternity, Infant Welfare Work
(Hainan Island Regional Service, 8 Oct 77) .......0-

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CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR DISCUSSES MODERNIZATION OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Peking Domestic Service in Mandarin 1200 GMT 18 Oct 77 OW

[Report on interview with Tang Ao-ching, professor at Kirin University:
"Hold Aloft the Red Banner, Scale the Heights"; portion of interview recorded]

[Excerpts] On a bright autumn day this reporter was pleased to call on

Prof Tang Ao-ching at the Department of Chemistry, Kirin University. Comrade
Tang Ao-ching, presently vice chairman of the Kirin University Revolutionary
Committee and academic member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, returned
to the motherland from abroad in the early post-liberation period with an
earnest patriotic fervor. Under the party's leadership during the past

20 years or so, Comrade Tang Ao-ching has conscientiously studied Marxist-
Leninist works and Chairman Mao's works, paid attention to remolding his world
outlook, taken the road of integrating with workers, peasants and soldiers,
and industriously engaged in basic theoretical chemical researhc, thus con-
tributing to the development of China's socialist science. In recent years,
by resisting the pressure of the "gang of four" and persevering in his re-
search in basic chemical theories, he raised the principle of conservation
of molecular orbital symmetry from the stage of qualitative determination

to the stage of semiquantitative determination and, together with Comrade
Chiang Yuan-sheng and other coworkers, advanced a graph theory of molecular
orbitals. His work enriched and developed the molecular orbital theory in
quantum chemistry and marked a new achievement at the advanced world level.

The principle of conservation of molecular orbital symmetry was established
in the 1960's by summing up a large number of principles arrived at in
practical organic syntheses on the basis of the molecular orbital theory, a
significant theory in quantum chemistry. It was then developed after being
proved and enriched by numerous experiments. It is an important principle
in guiding organic syntheses research and chemical industrial production.
With the lofty aspiration of developing China's science to catch up and sur-
pass the advance world level, Comrade Tang Ao-ching began his research in the
molecular orbital theory in 1973. While the busy research was going on,

the "gang of four" stirred up the evil wind of negating basic theoretical
research in order to usurp party and state power. Recalling his experience,
Comrade Tang Ao-ching said with deep emotion: [begin recording] "I recall
many things in those days. In the summer of 1950 I attended a national

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capitalists. In light of the outcry made by bourgeois apologists about
"planned capitalism," Lenin incisively pointed out: "The socialization of
labor by capital has advanced so far that even bourgeois literature loudly
proclaims the necessity of the "planned organization of the national econ-
omy...."' This is a ‘sign of the times,' a sign of the complete break-up of
the capitalist system." In arbitrarily lumping together planned economy and
capitalism, the "Gang of Four" were making a futile attempt to prettify the
latter.

In the Soviet Union today the dictatorship of the proletariat has turned in-
to bourgeois fascist dictatorship and socialist public ownership into owner-
ship by the bureaucrat-monopoly bourgeoisie. "Under the rule of the Soviet

revisionist renagade clique, capitalist competitions and anarchy in production
again emerged, the national economy developed in a lopsided way, proportional
relations were seriously out of balance, the number of unemployed grew larger
and larger, and the working people wrein deep waters. The entire national

economy had long since turned into a bureaucrat-monopoly capitalist economy."
The "Gang of Four" fully revealed their true colors as lackeys of the Soviet
revisionists when they applied rouge and powder to this kind of bureaucrat

monopoly capitalist economy. i

"To the 'Gang of Four' a state of whatever nature was a planned economy so
long as economic planning was carried out by the state. They simply did not
understand that economic planning falls into the category of ideology and must
not be equated with planned economy. They also did not understand that there
is a world of difference between econmic planning in a socialist country

and that in a capitalist or social-imperialist country both in terms of the
production relations they reflect and in the class interests and aspirations
they embody, and the two must not be lumped together.”

Chairman Mao said: ‘Without a high degree of democracy it is impossible to
have a high degree of centralism, and without a high degree of centralism it
is impossible to establish a socialist economy." Centralized and unified

leadership under the Central Committee is a fundamental guarantee for pract-
icing planned economy. "With ulterior motives the 'Gang of Four’ attacked

the party's centralized and unified leadership over the national economy as
‘direct and exclusive control of enterprises by the ministry concerned’ and
even as 'bureaucrat-monopoly,' 'revisionism'’ and ‘bourgeois dictatorship.'"

We are also against "direct and exclusive control of enterprises by the
ministry concerned" becuase rigid control would fetter the initiative of

local authorities. We always advocate giving full play to the two sources

of initiative from the central and local authorities under the unified

planning of the state, We know from our experiences in building socialism
that on the premise of giving play to the two sources of initiative we can
develop our national economy at a high speed provided we concentrate our
manpower. and material and financial resources on a few projects. Inappropriate
decentralization is harmful to the high-speed development of our national
economy.

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BRIEFS

CANTON FOREIGN TRADE--By the end of September, Canton's foreign trade had ful~
filled 80 percent of the annual procurement plan and 84 percent of the yearly
export plan, an increase of 4.3 and 22.7 percent, respectively, compared with
the same period last year. [Canton Kwangtung Provincial Service in Mandarin
1100 GMT 16 Oct 77 HK]

HEILUNGKIANG LIGHT INDUSTRY--In Mu~tan-chiang Prefecture of Heilungkiang
Province, 98.4 percent of the enterprises of the Second Light Industry Depart-
ment were operating at a profit by the end of September. This percentage was
as high as 100 percent in the case of such enterprises in seven cities and
counties of Mu-tan-chiang Prefecture. The number of enterprises suffering
deficits in the prefecture declined 92.7 percent as compared with the cor-
responding period of 1976, and the total amount of money involved in such
deficits dropped 94 percent, [Harbin Heilungkiang Provincial Service in
Mandarin 1100 GMT 19 Oct 77 HK]

HONAN HYDROELECTRIC POWER--To date Wu-chih County has built 101 small hydro-
electric power stations with a total capacity of 6,118 kw, It has also
erected some 1,300 li of electricity transmission cables, Industrial out-
put this year has fulfilled the year's production quotas 3 months ahead of
schedule, and the value of total output increased 64 percent over the same
period last year. The county also reaped a bumper harvest in agriculture.
[Chengchow Honan Provincial Service in Mandarin 1100 GMT 18 Oct 77 HK]

HAINAN INDUSTRIAL ACHTEVEMENTS--From January to September the total value of
industrial output in Chiung-hai County accounted for 78.5 percent of the
yearly plan, an increase of 17.1 percent over the corresponding period last
year, while costs decreased 4.6 percent and profits increased 11.4 percent.
This year the industry and communication fronts in this county have made 144
technical innovations, greatly reducing consumption of coal, coke, steel and
electricity. The people on these fronts have also recovered 300 tons of
discarded rolled steel and saved 21,500 kg of petroleum. [Haikow Hainan Island
Regional Service in Mandarin 0430 GMT 11 Oct 77 HK]

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"The 'Gang of Four' denigrated the socialist planned economy and described

it as capitalist laissez-faire economy in order to mold public opinion for
their pushing a counterrevolutionary revisionist line in the economic sphere.
In localities under their control they set up their own systems, worked out
their own policies, did not commit themselves to the tasks set in the state
plan, did not report their plans to the state, and allowed themselves free-
dom of production, recruitment, exchange, pricing and in undertaking proj-
ects." They even opposed Chairman Mao's "policy of autocratic rule in foreign
trade" and clamored about "making revolution against monopoly." The essential
truth was that they wanted to make revolution against socialism.

"The fallacies and criminal activities of the 'Gang of Four' against social-
ist planned economy embody a concentrated reflection of the desire of class
enemies at home and abroad to restore capitalism in China. The struggle
between our party and the 'Gang of Four" on the economic front is a major
battle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat over restoration and coun-
ter-restoration. We must carry through to the end the great struggle to
expose and criticize the 'Gang of Four' and further eliminate their effect
and remnant poison in the economic sphere so that socialist planned economy
can blossom and bear abundant fruits on the vast expanse of our motherland.

cso: 4006

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science work conference. One afternoon the great leader Chairman Mao, in
buoyant spirits, came to the conference hall and cordially received all
representatives to the conference. At that conference our esteemed and
beloved: Premier Chou, acting on Chairman Mao's instruction, made the decision
to include theoretical scientific research as an item in our country's
science development work. In 1962 I attended the second national science
work conference, at which Chairman Mao himself examined and approved a number
of basic theoretical research projects. In 1972 our esteemed and beloved
Premier Chou again issued a series of important instructions on strengthening
basic theoretical research. Without basic theoretical research, it is im-
possible to work out thousands upon thousands of major new techniques and
innovations. Failure to pay attention to basic theoretical research will
affect our important tasks and bring a big loss to us. Im that case, we will
be unable to catch up with and surpass the advance world level of science

and technology. So I made up my mind to resolutely begin my basic theoretical
research without fear of the risk involved." [end recording]

In the course of their research work, Comrade Tang Ao-ching and his coworkers
used Marxist dialectic materialism to analyze and appraise the three differ-
ent theories on molecular orbitals. They were thus able to put forward their
own calculation method and formula and advance a new theory, which develops
the principle of conservation of molecular orbital symmetry, raising it from
the stage of qualitative determination to the stage of semiquantitative de-
termination. This achievement is of vital significance to the development
of basic chemical theories and organic syntheses industries in our country.

Comrade Tang Ao-ching not only persevered in basic theoretical research
himself but made positive efforts to train scientific research personnel for
our country who are both Red and expert. Through many years of practice,
Comrade Tang Ao-ching has deeply realized that great efforts should be made
to train scientific research personnel who are both Red and expert in order
that our country might achieve modernization of science and technology as
quickly as possible. For this reason he is always enthusiastic in doing a
good job of disseminating his knowledge of basic chemical theories. Indeed,
more than 300 researchers in basic chemical theories have received assistance
from Comrade Tang Ao-ching during the past 20 years or so.

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achieving the modernization of agriculture, industry, national defense and
science and technology, and rapidly developing socialist production, can we
strengthen the material foundation of the dictatorship of the proletariat,
constantly enhance the supremacy of socialism and defeat the capitalist for-
ces in the course of the struggle betweenthe two classes and two roads.

2. Speedy development of socialist production is required to strengthen our
national defense forces and our preparedness against imperialist and social-
imperialist aggression. The contemporary era is still an era of revolutionary
struggle between imperialism and the proletariat. As long as imperialism

and social-imperialism exist in the world, war is inevitable. Our socialist
country must constantly strengthen its national defense forces and have a
strong national defense establishment. War is not only a trial of military
and political strength but also a trial of economic strength.

The economy is the foundation of national defense. Only speedy economic
development can bring about greater progress in national defense construction.
The factors for revolution-and war are both increasing in the world today and
the contention between the two hegemonic powers--the Soviet Union and the
United States--is becoming ever more acute. Soviet revisionism has not given
up its wild ambition to subjugate China. With the wolf and tiger confronting
us, we must compete with imperialists, revisionists and reactionaries; race
against time; and work as quickly as possible to speed up socialist produc-
tion, economic construction, national defense construction and the moderniza-
tion of agriculture, industry, national defense and science and technology.
We must provide firm and reliable material guarantees to assure victory in
wars against aggression in the future. Only in this way can we provide greater
material support for the revolutionary struggles waged by the world's people,
perform our proletarian internationalist duty in a still better way and

make greater contributions to mankind.

3. Efforts to develop socialist production are required to gradually improve
the material and cultural life of the people.

Only by promoting production well and developing the socialist economy at
high speed can we gradually satisfy the steadily increasing demands of the
material and cultural life of the people and further fire their enthusiasm for
putting every effort into building socialism. The Gang of Four desperately
opposed and sabotaged our efforts to promote production, Their criminal
objective was to prevent us from satisfying the people's demands and drasti-
cally undermine the superiority of the socialist system.

4, Rapid development of socialist production is also required to gradually

narrow the three major differences and to prepare material conditions for the
transition to a communist society. The historical mission of the proletariat
is to eradicate capitalism from the earth, relegating it to history, destroy
all exploiting classes, eliminate all class difference and realize communism.

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"GANG OF FOUR'S' USE OF CHAOYANG AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE SCORED
Peking KUANG-MING JIH-PAO in Chinese 23 Oct 77 pp 1, 2 HK

[Article by reporters and correspondents of LIAO-NING JIH-PAO and Liao-ning
Radio: "The Truth Is Revealed and the Evidence Is Irrefutable--Exposing and
Criticizing the Crimes of the 'Gang of Four' and Their Followers in Using
the Chaoyang Agricultural College As a Tool for Usurping Party and State
Power" ]

[Summary] "Editor's Note: The 'gang of four,’ their confidant
in Liao-ning Province, and counterrevolutionary careerist Chih
Chun [6688 5028] used the so-called ‘experience of the Chaoyang
Agricultural College' as a big stone to hurl at the party and
to push their counterrevolutionary political program. They
held an on-the-spot meeting to direct the spearhead at esteemed
and beloved Premier Chou. They concocted the antiparty slogan
"Work in opposition to the 17 years after national liberation’
and distorted the historical fact that Chairman Mao's revolu-
tionary line had been predominent for the past two decades or
so. They ranted that the college had only one major, 'The
major of struggle against capitalist roaders,' and attempted

to train youths into counterrevolutionary hatchetmen like
Chang Tieh-sheng."

The "gang of four" and their confidant in Liaoning vigorously publicized the
so-called "experience of the Chaoyang Agricultural College" and made this
college a "model" for the purpose of usurping party and state power.

In the second half of 1974 the "gang of four" stepped up their conspiratorial
activities to usurp party and state power. Their confidant in Liaoning and
Chih Chun also took advantage of the "on-the-spot m-eting to learn from the
experience of the Chaoyang Agricultural College in conducting the education
revolution" and wantonly directed the spearhead at the Party Central Committee.
Their aim was to topple Premier Chou and other leading comrades of the State
Council.

At the meeting the followers of the "gang of four" praised the Chaoyang
Agricultural College as an advanced school "holding high the banner of the
Anti-Japanese Military and Political College and taking the road of a commu-
nist labor university." Meanwhile, they fabricated charges against the

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SZECHWAN PARTY DECREES STRENGTHENED SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL WORK
Chengtu Szechwan Provincial Service in Mandarin 2140 GMT 18 Oct 77 HK

[SZECHWAN DAILY editorial: "Strengthen Leadership and Manage Science in a
Big Way"; date not given]

[Summary] "The CCP Central Committee's circular on the convocation of a
national conference on science has turned a new page in the annals of our
country's scientific work. In connection with the reality of our province,
the Provincial Party Committee put forward the decision on conscientiously
implementing the circular of the CCP Central Committee. Party committees
at all levels must act in accordance with the Provincial Party Committee's
decision and strengthen leadership. Under the guidance of the line of the
llth Party Congress, they must conscientiously organize the people to pene-
tratingly study and extensively propagate the Party Central Committee's
circular."

“During the past 28 years and under the guidance of Chairman Mao's revolu-
tionary line, the development of this province's scientific and technical
work has been rapid, and its achievements are great. However, due to the
sabotage of the 'gang of four’ and their factionalist force in Szechwan,
our cause of science and technology has been seriously disrupted."

Our province's scientific and technical levels are backward as compared with
the coastal provinces. Party organizations at all levels must mobilize,
strengthen leadership and do a good job of managing science in a big way with-
out delay. "Party committees at all levels must pay special attention to
implementing the party's policy toward intellectuals without delay." It is
imperative to show concern for the working and living conditions of scientific
and technical personnel. ~

Under the guidance of Chairman Mao's revolutionary line and under the wise
leadership of the Party Central Committee headed by Chairman Hua, we can

scale the heights of world science in the near future. Our goal must be
attained. Our goal can unquestionably be attained.

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KWANGTUNG COUNTY POSTAL, TELECOMMUNICATIONS--Canton, 19 Oct--After 7 years of
hard work Nan-hai County, Kwangtung, has transformed its backwardness in
postal and telecommunications. Carrier circuits have now been generally intro-
duced in telecommunications services between the country seat and communes.
Mail in rural areas is being delivered by motor vehicle. Radio fascimile serv-
ice has been made available between the county seat and certain communes, and
dial phones have been installed in the county seat and some communes. Wooden
telephone poles have been replaced with concrete ones, and radio telecommunica-
tions services have been introduced in three communes. [Peking NCNA Domestic
Service in Chinese 0113 GMT 19 Oct 77 OW]

SZECHWAN'S INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION--Between January and September, Szechwan's
total industrial production value was 28.7 percent more than the same period
last year. The output of 70 of the more than 80 principal products registered
an increase over the corresponding period last year. [Chengtu Szechwan Prov-
incial Service in Mandarin 2140 GMT 28 Oct 77 HK]

HAI-NAN CEMENT PLANTS-~The small cement plants in various counties and Haikow
in Hai-nan overfulfilled the state quotas for 1977 by 18.7 percent 3 months
ahead of schedule. Output was up 75.5 percent over the corresponding period
of last year. The Chiungchung County cement plant produced 5,545 tons of ce-
ment from January to September, 80 percent more than in a similar period of
last year. The plant réduced its costs by 26 percent in the same period.
Wenchang County cement plant produced 1,422 tons of cement in September.
[Haikow Hai-nan Island Regional Service in Mandarin 0430 GMT 27 Oct 77 HK]

HUPEH POWER GENERATOR--Hupeh's first 100,000-kilowatt power generator recently
came into operation. Construction began in 1974, After the fall of the Gang
of Four, the masses of workers, scientists and technicians worked very hard
and, with the support of the people and militiamen in neighboring countries,
they completed the project in good time. [Wuhan Hupeh Provincial Service in
Mandarin 1300 GMT 26 Oct 77 HK]

KWANGSI'S ELECTRICITY OUTPUT--Kwangsi has implemented generation of electricity
at five levels: prefectures, counties, communes, production brigades and pro-
duction teams. During the past 11 years the region registered an average in-
crease of 11,000 kilowatts every year. This has promoted the development of
agriculture and industry. At present the whole region is running some 1,600
medium- and small-sized hydroelectric stations with a total capacity of
152,700 kilowatts, an increase of 900 percent over 1965. Every commune
throughout the region has received electricity, while some 70 percent of the
production brigades and 50 percent of the production teams have been provided
with electricity. [Nanning Kwangsi Regional Service in Mandarin 1100 GMT

19 Oct 77 HK]

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"We have taken a heavy burden and embarked on a long road in continuing

the revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat. In the new his-
torical period of carrying on past traditions and opening up a way for those
who follow, party organizations at all levels, party members, armymen and
people throughout the province must actively respond to the call issued by
this party congress, hold aloft Chairman Mao's great banner, closely follow
the Party Central Committee headed by Chairman Hua, implement the line of the
llth Party Congress and the strategic policy decision on grasping the key

link in running the country well, and struggle to initially build our province
into a socialist industrial province by 1980 and our country into a modernized,
powerful socialist country within this century." This is a very glorious

and arduous task. To accomplish this task we must have very high revolutionary
fighting spirit, very great energy and very good style of work. Basically
speaking, we must arm our minds with Chairman Mao's great theory of continu-
ing the revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat.

At present the situation at home and abroad is excellent. The situation is
very favorable to us. We must grasp this situation and advance victoriously.
We must quickly turn the combat call issued by the congress into practical
actions of the 1.7 million party members and the 48 million armymen and
people in the entire province. Like leading comrades of the Ministry of
Petroleum and Chemical Industries, leading cadres at all levels must seize
the day, go deep into basic-level units, conduct investigation and study and
take the lead in working hard. Proceeding from reality, we must persist in
grasping the three great revolutionary movements simultaneously and carry

out the tasks, one by one, put forward by the congress. We must firmly grasp
the key link of exposing and criticizing the "gang of four" and regard it as
the core of our work and as the impetus for all items of work. We must pay
attention to current work, tidy up communes, brigades and enterprises,
mobilize people to engage in winter cultivation and farmland capital construc-
tion, learn science and technology, promote production of electricity and
coal and whip up a new upsurge of revolution and production. We must acceler-
ate the pace of building Ta-ching-type enterprises everywhere and Ta-chai-
type counties everywhere.

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POLITICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL

"HUNAN DAILY' EDITORIAL HAILS PROVINCIAL CCP CONGRESS
Changsha Hunan Provincial Service in Mandarin 2330 GMT 21 Oct 77 HK

[HUNAN DAILY editorial: "Advance in Victory Along the Line of the lith Party
Congress--Warmly Celebrating the Victorious Conclusion of the Fourth Hunan
Provincial CCP Congress"; date not given]

[Summary] Under the earnest concern of Chairman Hua and the Party Central
Committee and under the guidance of the spirit of the 11th Party Congress,

the Fourth Hunan Provincial CCP Congress has completed its tasks and victoriously
ended. This congress held high Chairman Mao's great banner, resolutely imple-
mented the line of the 11th Party Congress, summed up the experiences of

the struggle between two lines in our province since the Third Provincial
Party Congress, particularly the experiences of the struggle against the "gang
of four," and worked out the combat tasks in our province under the new
policy decision. The congress selected the Fourth Hunan Provincial CCP
Committee. The congress will play a great part in and have a far reaching
effect on impelling socialist revolution and construction throughout the
province.

Seven years have elapsed since the Third Provincial Party Congress. These
rather unusual 7 years were years in which a life-and-death struggle was
waged between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, socialism and capitalism,
and Marxism and revisionism, and a great victory was won. "Over the past

7 years, under the correct leadership of the Provincial CCP Committee, the
party members, armymen and people in Chairman Mao's native province have
persisted in Chairman Mao's proletarian revolutionary line, closely followed
the strategic plans of Chairman Mao, Chairman Hua and the Party Central
Committee and waged resolute struggles against Lin Piao's antiparty clique
and his agents sent to Hunan, particularly against the antiparty clique of
the "gang of four," their black hand stretched into Hunan--the bourgeois
careerist and conspirator--and the small number of people they recruited.
They have smashed their frantic attacks one after another and won great
victories one after another. They have undergone stringent tests and steel-
ing." The mass movements to learn from Ta-ching in industry and from Ta-chai
in agriculture in the urban and rural areas throughout the province have been
on a magnificent scale, and the situation of the new leap forward in the
national economy is emerging.



The afore-mentioned points show that to promote socialist production and
modernize agriculture, industry, national defense and science and technology
is a major issue concerning the future and destiny of our party and our coun-
try. Chairman Mao pointed out as early as 1956 that China should strive to
overtake the United States in 50 or 60 years economically, that if we don't,
we the Chinese nation will be letting the nations of the world down and we
will not be making much of a contribution to mankind, and should be read off
the face of the earth. What an encouragement and inspiration Chairman Mao's
words are to us. We are determined to hold high Chairman Mao's great banner,
seriously implement the militant tasks set by the 11th National Congress of
the party and work hard under the leadership of the party Central Committee
headed by Chairman Hua.

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workers' and peasants' movements and conspired to launch a counterrevolu-
tionary coup d'etat. Chairman Mao exposed the reactionary features of
Wang Ching-wei in a timely way and at the same time resolutely held that
the workers and peasants must take up weapons and use armed revolution to
oppose the armed counterrevolution.

In May 1927, after the main. force of the Northern Expedition Army had gone
north, the reactionary warlord Hsia Tou-yin openly rebelled in Ichang and
attempted to attack and occupy Wuhan. The rebellious army approached the
suburban area of Wuhan, and the situation became very critical. Chairman
Mao was very decisive and sent students to cooperate with the troops under
the command of Comrade Yeh Ting. They defeated Hsiao Tou-yin and defended
Wuhan, the revolutionary center at that time.

"On 7 August 1927 the Party Central Committee held an urgent meeting in
Hankou attended by Chairman Mao, Tsai Ho-shen, Jen Pi-shih, Su Chao-cheng,
Chang Tai-lei, Teng Hsiao-ping and other comrades. At the meeting Chairman
Mao criticized the right opportunist Chen Tu-hsiu's mistakes in voluntarily
relinquishing leadership power over the united front and in opposing the
peasant revolution." The meeting affirmed the general principles of resisting
the KMI reactionaries’ slaughter policies with armed force and of launching
the land reform. It also decided to stage the autumn harvest uprising.

“After the meeting, as a commissioner of the central authorities, Chairman
Mao went to Hunan to convey the spirit of the 7 August meeting, reorganized
the Hunan Provincial CCP Committee, led the autumn harvest uprising in the
border region of Hunan and Kiangsi and the march toward Chingkangshan, and
established the first rural revolutionary base. He founded the first workers’
and peasants’ Red Army, lit the spark of ‘armed separatism by workers and
peasants' and opened up the brilliant road of using the rural areas to
besiege the cities and ultimately seizing the cities. Under the leadership
of Chairman Mao, the Chinese people have followed this revolutionary road,
gone through the second recolutionary war in China, the war against Japanese
aggression and the war of liberation, and won the great victory of the new
democratic revolution."

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have already fulfilled this year's state plan ahead of schedule to make good
preparations in terms of equipment, raw materials and the organization of
manpower for production in the coming year. We must continue to make progress.
We cannot stand still."

Now is the crucial moment to make the final dash for complete victory in
fulfilling the combat task of grasping the key link in running the country
well. Let us carry forward the revolutionary spirit of fighting continously
without fear of fatigue, make continuous efforts and dash toward the new
goal.

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their confidant in this college sent a large delegation to Tsinghua and
Peking universities. The Gang's two lieutenants in Peking and their jackal
in charge of agriculture in Liaoning took the opportunity. to whip up a wave
of counterrevolutionary demagogy. Their female lieutenant in Peking said:
"The Chaoyang Agricultural College [delegation] is highly sensitive. It
has come at a good time. Its coming gives us support." That sinister
Lieutenant Chih Chun also said: "We are comrades in arms. Our hearts beat
in unison." That jackal felt so overwhelmingly flattered that he said:
"The Chaoyang Agricultural College is a branch of Tsinghua and Peking
universities."

"That confidant of the 'gang of four' in the Chaoyang Agricultural College
colluded with the two sinister lieutenants in Peking and acted against the
plans and policies laid down by Chairman Mao and the Party Central Committee.
He collected by illegal means the speeches made by a few leading comrades of
the State Council, vilified them as absurdities and put them up for open
criticism at the college. He also sent some people to other places to 'make
investigations’ and 'collect' ammunition for attacking the central leading
comrades.

“After the complete downfall of the 'gang of four,' their followers and
confidants in Liaoning were not reconciled to their defeat but made a death-
bed struggle. That confidant in the Chaoyang Agricultural College put up

a desperate fight and maintained his reactionary stand. He wildly attacked
the Party Central Committee headed by Chairman Hua and refused to expose and
criticize the conspiratorial activities of the 'gang of four' and their
followers."

The vast numbers of teachers and students of the Chaoyang Agricultural
College saw and hated the criminal activities of the "gang of four" and their
followers in Liaoning. After the "gang of four" were smashed, they wrath-—
fully exposed and criticized the towering crimes committed by the "gang of
four" and their followers in Liaoning.

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Kiangsi Communist Labor University founded by Chairman Mao and supported by
Premier Chou. Obviously, they took the Chaoyang Agricultural College as a
stone and hurled it at the red flag of "Communist Labor University" and
Chairman Mao's revolutionary line on education.

The antiparty slogan chanted by the "gang of four" and their followers,

"work in opposition to the 17 years after national liberation," was aimed

at "obliterating the fact that Chairman Mao's revolutionary line on education
predominated during the 17 years after liberation. It completely negated
the tremendous achievements scored by vast numbers of cadres and masses on
the education front during these 17 years." A month after Premier Chou
passed away, the "gang of four" put forward a poisonous article entitled
“Building a New World While Criticizing the 01d World." They pinned on the
leading comrades of the Party Central. Committee and the State Council who
emphasized all-round implementation of the party's education policy the
political labels of "eclectic sophists," "those stirring up the rightist wind
to reverse verdicts," "defenders of all old systems and capitalist restora-
tionists."

The "gang of four" wanted to turn the Chaoyang Agricultural College into a
“political college" for training "stanch fighters against capitalist roaders."
They elaborately concocted the counterrevolutionary political program that
“old cadres are democrats and democrats are capitalist roaders." They fabri-
cated a so-called "new change in class relations" and asserted that the
"bourgeoisie" was in our party.

Integrating teaching with scientific research and productive labor is a
new pedagogical system of a socialist university. But, to suit the needs
of the "political college," the "gang of four" said that "productive labor
should be the foundation." Political activities and productive labor were
allowed to take up as much time as required, and teaching was conducted
during the time left over. As a result, scientific researchers became
laborers, scientific research funds were misappropriated and most of the
scientific research equipment was damaged.

In the first half of 1976, when the "gang of four" quickened their pace

of usurping party and state power, that confidant of the gang in the
Chaoyang Prefectural Party Committee and another confidant in the Chaoyang
Agricultural College developed the "political college bureaus and faculties,"
that is, the various faculties of the Chaoyang Agricultural College and the
various bureaus of the prefectural party committee ran the offices together.
Some students of this college took over the principal posts of the bureaus.
This actually meant substituting the college for the government.

As the "experience of the Chaoyang Agricultural College" played an ever
greater role in opposing the party, the "gang of four" and their followers
tightened their control over this college. In January 1975 Chiang Ching
personally recommended students for admission to this college. In October
1975, when the "gang of four" were stepping up their antiparty activities,



"The progress made in the facilities for scientific experimentation is an
important condition for and a hallmark of the development of science and
technology. The technical level of scientific instruments is determined by i
the level of production development. To catch up with and surpass advanced
world levels in science and technology, we must have a contingent of scientists i
and technicians that ranks among the world's best and have the most advanced
scientific experiment facilities. As in fighting a war, we must have crack
troops and good weapons. In this way our scientific experimentation will be
raised to a new and higher level."

The "gang of four" obliterated the difference between scientific experimenta-
tion and the struggle for production, negated the importance and necessity
of laboratory work and wantonly slandered scientists and technicians. They
described laboratories as "stubborn bulwarks of capitalism," denigrated
laboratory work as “small production" divorced from the masses, abolished
research and experimentation in the name of "opening doors" and damaged
laboratory facilities.

"Chih Chun and other sworn confederates of the 'gang of four' at Tsinghua
University even ordered the smashing of the Water Conservancy Department's
laboratory office, which was equipped with advanced’ equipment. Because of
this, Tsinghua was unable to accomplish its assigned tasks of conducting
water conservation research and of teaching. The gang's followers in Shanghai
forcibly destroyed the Shanghai Biological Experimentation Center which was

in the process of being set up. Because of their crimes, many advanced pre-
cision instruments were lost, and the plan for biological research was buried."
We must thoroughly criticize and repudiate the gang's reactionary fallacies
and counterrevolutionary crimes aimed at negating laboratory work and
sabotaging scientific experimentation.

"At the 11th National CCP Congress our wise leader Chairman Hua put forward
the combat call to ‘advance toward the modernization of science and technology.’
Strengthening laboratory work and putting it on a sound basis are concrete
measures for modernizing science and technology. In accordance with the spirit
of the CCP Central Committee circular on holding a national science conference,
we must quickly restore scientific research institutions that were disbanded
by the 'gang of four’ and put in order those that were disrupted, try our
utmost to repair instruments and equipment damaged by the gang, concentrate

on the production of instruments and meters for experimentation, and create
the necessary conditions for scientific research as quickly as possible. In
addition, scientific research institutions must promote the study and develop-
ment of special instruments for research purposes, use the achievements of
modern science and technology to expand the facilities for scientific experi-
mentation, and speed up the automation and computerization of scientific
experiments. At the same time, we must adhere to the principle of walking

on two legs, combine indigenous with foreign methods, actively develop advanced
laboratory equipment on the one hand and make do with whatever we have on

the other, and give full play to available facilities."

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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL

‘KUANG-MING JIH-PAO' STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF LABORATORY WORK
Peking KUANG-MING JIH-PAO in Chinese 19 Oct 77 p 3 HK
[Article by Chou Pin: "Pay Attention to Laboratory Work"]

[Summary] "Our great leader and teacher Chairman Mao always attached special
importance to scientific experimentation. He regarded it as a great revolu-
tionary movement indispensable for consolidating the dictatorship of the
proletariat and for building socialism and as one of the sources of correct
ideas.

"Scientific experimentation is an independent social activity derived and
developed from the struggle for production and is something which cannot be
replaced by actual production." Through experimentation we can more com-
pletely discover the essence of the natural world and advance science and
technology.

Laboratories are necessary for conducting scientific research. In a labora-
tory we can create all kinds of special conditions, such as ultra high
pressures, ultra high vacuums, ultra high or low temperatures, ultra strong
magnetic fields, and so forth, which are hard to obtain or directly use in
the natural world and are not yet present in the production process. "By
conducting research and experiments under these extreme conditions in labora-
tories we can acquire a broader and deeper knowledge of nature, discover the
laws of nature, advance new scientific theories, provide production and con-
struction with new materials, techniques and products, blaze new trails in
technology and open up new spheres of production." At the same time, the
use of special laboratory instruments such as a high-energy synchrotron and
a radioastronomical telescope can advance our scientific research to a higher
level and broaden our horizons.

More often than not we cannot conduct research directly into the issues in
question. For example, take the inference of radiation sickness and the
cause of cancer. Of course we cannot carry out experiments directly on the
human body, but we can do so on monkeys or white mice.

"The development of modern natural sciences depends more and more heavily

on scientific experimentation. It has also become increasingly clear that
scientific research must set the pace for production and construction."

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HUPEH ARTICLE RECALLS MAO'S REVOLUTIONARY PRACTICE |
Wuhan Hupeh Provincial Service in Mandarin 1300 GMT 17 Oct 77 HK

[Excerpts of article by the Hupeh Provincial CCP Committee: "He Turned the
Tide and Accomplished Immortal Achievements--Recalling. Great Leader and
Teacher Chairman Mao's Great Revolutionary Practice in Wuhan During the
Great Revolutionary Era"]

[Summary] "From the winter of 1926 to the autum of 1927, great leader and
teacher Chairman Mao lived and fought for nearly 10 months in Hupeh. It was
an important stage during the first revolutionary war in China and was the
first critical juncture through which the Chinese revolution passed from
victory to defeat and from defeat to victory."

In the winter of 1926 the peasant movement centered in Hunan was developing
in a dynamic way. From 4 April to 5 February 1927, Chairman Mao inspected
the peasant movements in Hsiangtan, Hsianghsiang, Hengshan, Liling and
Changsha counties. Soon afterward he wrote the brilliant Marxist document
"Report On an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan" in his resi-
dence in Wuchang. "In March 1927 Chairman Mao founded the Central Peasant
Movement Institute in Wuchang. It recruited 800 students from all over the
country. They studied the theories of the peasant movement and participated
in revolutionary struggles."

To strengthen the unified leadership of the peasant movement throughout the
country, on 30 March 1927 the representatives of the peasant associations of
Kwangtung, Hunan, Hupeh and Kiangsi and of the Honan Armed Peasant Self-
Defense Army held a joint conference at the office of the Hunan Peasant
Association. The conference elected 13 people, including Chairman Mao, Fang
Chih-min and Peng Pai, as committee members of the Provisional Executive
Committee of the National Peasant Association of China. Chairman Mao was
elected as a Standing Committee member and director of the Organization
Department, taking charge of the work of the Provisional Executive Committee.

In the spring of 1927 Chiang Kai-shek perpetrated a series of bloody inci-
dents in Kanchou, Nanchang, Chiuchiang and Anching and whipped up a counter-
revolutionary countercurrent. Within the Wuhan revolutionary government
the upper-level KMT elements represented by Wang Ching-wei also stepped up
their conspiracies with Chiang Kai-shek, suppressed and dealt blows to the



"Exploiting the criticism of ‘direct and exclusive control of enterprises by
the ministry concerned,’ the ‘Gang of Four’ opposed the centralized and uni-
fied leadership of the party Central Committee over economic work. They
obscured the demarcation line between bureaucratic centralism and conscious
and democratic proletarian centralism so as to oppose ‘leadership, planning
and control which are not unduly centralized' but indispensable for realizing
planned economy. They interfered with and disrupted. the normal functioning
of central departments by confusing the distinction between ‘direct and ex-
clusive control of enterprises by the ministry concerned’ should be ‘directed
against those who are still in office.'" This was an integral part of their
conspiracy to usurp party and state power [as received].

In order to practice planned economy, we must have stricter planning to insure
the all-round fulfillment of the state plan. But the "gang of Four" deliber-
ately created confusion by spreading the mistaken idea that "it is all right
if we cannot fulfill our plans so long as the line is correct."

The "Gang of Four" smeared the eight economic and technical indices as “eight
massive cudgels" and the seven systems for the management of enterprises as
"seven ropes." They described the efforts made by various enterprises to
fulfill the targets set in the state plan as "revisionism" and "putting targets
in command." This was another poisonous arrow shot at socialist planned econ-
omy.

In order to oppose pianned economy and promote liberalization, the "Gang of
Four" also distorted the role of the law of value in socialist society.
"They completely denied the fact that due to the establishment of the sys-
tem of public ownership of the means of production, a country under the
dictatorship of the proletariat was able to understand the law of value and
make it serve the socialist planned economy. They believed that the law
of value still blindly regulated production and circulation in socialist
society as it did in capitalist society."

"They fundamentally denied that the socialist economy was mainly dominated

by the law of planned and proportionate development and that the law of value
only supplemented the state plan. Provided that they are properly applied,
these two laws do not necessarily have to be one waning and the other waxing,
nor do they have to be in opposition to each other."

They described the temporary disequilibrium in the supply and demand of
certain commodities as a constant and universal phenomenon which "exists
daily and hourly.!" Actually, they were trying to advertise the role of the
law of value as a spontaneous regulator, a means for achieving equilibrium
in supply and demand. According to their "theory," spontaneity and blindness
are bound to replace planning and economic liberalization is bound to under-

mine the planned economy, and ultimately capitalism will vanquish socialism.

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"KIANGSI JIH-PAO' ARTICLE ON ELIMINATING SCHISTOSOMIASIS
Nanchang Kiangsi Provincial Service in Mandarin 1100 GMT 4 Sep 77 HK

[KIANGSI JIH-PAO commentator article: "Quicken the Pace of Bidding Farewell
to the God of Plague"; date not given]

[Summary] "In the days of commemorating the 19th anniversary of the publica-
tion of our great leader and teacher Chairman Mao's brilliant poem ‘Farewell
to the God of Plague,’ Wanan, Hukou, Fengcheng and Kaoan counties in our
province have basically wiped out schistosomiasis. The arrival of this good
news has inspired us. We hereby express our warm congratulations to the
people of those four counties on the new victories they have won on the pre-
ventive front against schistosomiasis.

"We hope that other areas will further learn from Yukiang and the four
counties, vie with each other, go all out, aim high and quicken the pace of
bidding farewell to the God of Plague.

“Accelerating the pace of bidding farewell to the God of Plague is a great
issue which means to hold aloft the great banner of Chairman Mao, closely
follow our wise leader Chairman Hua, quickly and completely wipe out
schistosomiasis, deliver some people from suffering and realize Chairman Mao's
behest.

"Chairman Mao issued a great call 22 years ago: ‘It is imperative to wipe

out schistosomiasis.' Chairman Mao read a report 19 years ago that schistoso-
miasis had been wiped out in Yukiang County. He was then very happy and
could not sleep. Thus he happily wrote the brilliant, sublime and heroic
poem ‘Farewell to the God of Plague."

"During the past 20 years or so, under the guidance of Chairman Mao's

brilliant thought of bidding farewell to the God of Plague, our province's
people have united to fight against schistosomiasis and have won great victories
in wiping out schistosomiasis. But due to the interference and sabotage of

Liu Shao-chi, Lin Piao and especially of the "gang of four", the work of

wiping out schistosomiasis has not been completely successful. A year has

now elapsed since the smashing of the "gang of four." Under the leadership

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of the Party Central Committee headed by our wise leader Chairman Hua,
we should energetically carry out the preventive work against schistosomiasis
and strive to realize Chairman Mao's grand behest at an early date."

We must make full use of the experiences of Yukiang and other areas, conscien-
tiously strengthen party leadership, fully mobilize the masses of people and
integrate the preventive work against schistosomiasis with agricultural pro-
duction. We must wipe out schistosomiasis as quickly as possible. We must
greet the 20th anniversary of the publication of Chairman Mao's brilliant
poem "Farewell to the God of Plague" with new and still greater victories.

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ANHWEI RECYCLING PROGRESS~-By the end of September the people in Fu-yang
County had recovered a total of 368,000 yuan worth of discarded material,
overfulfilling the plan for the whole year. The material includes 1,578,000
catties of iron and steel, By the end of July the county had overfulfilled
the recovery plan for the whole year. Purchase points for discarded material
in the county have increased from 135 to 435. The various basic-level supply
and marketing cooperatives have set up repair sections for agricultural
machinery and tools. This year the county has repaired 40,000 pieces of
agricultural machinery and tools for the communes and brigades and produced
244,000 pieces of small agricultural tools with discarded material. [Hofei
Anhwei Provincial Service in Mandarin 1100 GMT 16 Oct 77 HK]

HAINAN COUNTY'S HIGHWAYS--In the past 10 years or so, 75 highways have been
built in T'ung-ch'ang County. Their total length is 408 km, about 150 per-
cent of the total length of highways in the county before 1965. The county
has 75 new bridges with a total length of 1,423 meters. In 1974, all the
brigades in the county could be reached by highways, and in 1976, 94 percent
of the production teams in the county could be reached by highways. [Haikow
Hainan Provincial Service in Mandarin 0430 GMT 19 Sep 77 HK]

KIRIN RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION--The Yen-tung-shan-Pai-shan-chen railway in Kirin
Province was completed and opened to traffic on 1 October. This railway runs
from Yen-tung-shan on the Shenyang-Kirin railway to Pai-shan-chen in the
southeastern part of Hua-tien County near the Sunghua River, and extends
119.45 kilometers. Construction of this railway has involved completing more
than 10 million cubic meters of earthwork and stonework, building 54 bridges,
50 tunnels, 354 culverts, and more than 60,000 square meters of buildings,

as well as laying 182.68 kilometers of track. [Changchun Kirin Provincial
Service in Mandarin 1100 GMT 9 Oct 77 SK]

REROUTE RAIL SECTION--On 31 August, the No 3 construction section of Kirin
railway completed a project of rerouting the section of railway from T'ung-hua
to East T'ung-hua and opened it to traffic. Thanks to completion of this
project, a locomotive going through this section now enjoys lesser grade on
the track, increased haulage capacity by one-and-a-half times, less consump-
tion of coal, greater safety in operation, and less strenous work required

of its personnel. [Changchun Kirin Provincial Service in Mandarin 1100 GMT
21 Sep 77 SK]

EXTEND BUS LINE--Ch'ang-ch'un municipality completed the construction of an
electrified bus extension line and opened it to traffic on 1 October. The
total length of this route No 2 is 5.6 kilometers, running from Ch'ang-ch'un
railway station on Hsi-an Road through Hung-chih Street to Hung-chi Street.
[Changchun Kirin Provincial Service in Mandarin 1100 GMT 2 Oct 77 SK]

STATE PLANS FULFILLED--By the end of September, 19 plants and mines of Wu-hai

Municipality of Inner Mongolia fulfilled their state~assigned 1977 plans. In
the first 9 months of 1977, Wu-ta Coal Mining Administration fulfilled its

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28 November 1977

TRANSLATIONS ON PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
No. 404

CoNTENTS PAGE

POLITICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL
‘HUNAN DAILY' Editorial Hails Provincial CCP Congress
(Editorial; Hunan Provincial Service, 21 Oct 77) ... 1
Hupeh Artidle Recalls Mao's Revolutionary Practice

(Hupeh Provincial Service, 17 Oct 77) ...sseesseeees 3

‘Gang of Four's' Use of Chaoyang Agricultural College Scored
(KUANG-MING JIH-PAO, 23 Oct 77) seccesceeees see eeeee 5

ECONOMIC

10 Do's, 10 Don'ts on Economic Front Clarified
(Peking Domestic Service, 22, 24 Oct 77) seseeeeeeee 8

Party Leadership
Significance of Production

Gang Scored for Opposing Planned Economy

(Wu Chia-pei, et al; KUANG-MING JIH-PAO, 31 Oct 77). 15
Peking Paper Calls for Further Industriel Progress

(JEN-MIN JIH-PAO, 4 Nov 77) ..+---- dee e eee eeeeeneee 19
Editorial Urges the Raising of More Beef Cattle

SJEN-MIN JIH-PAO, 5 Nov 77) sscecececececececeees eee a1
Briefs

Canton Foreign Trade 22

Heilungkiang Light Industry 22

Honan Hydroelectric Power 22

Hainan Industrial Achievements 22

Anhwei Recycling Progress 23

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"2, It is totally impermissible to create antagonism between the party leader-
ship in the ideological-political line and the party's organizational leader-
ship."

The party's centralized leadership is exercised through its leadership in

the ideological-political line and its organizational leadership. "However,
with ulterior motives, the Gang of Four set the party leadership in the ideo-
logical-political line against its organizational leadership. They attacked
the party's organizational principle and party discipline as 'the old rut' and
"restrictions and fetters' which ought to be discarded, and they advocated
anarchism, clamoring that 'the correct orientation is to direct the spear-
head upward against the leadership,’ thus seriously undermining the party's
centralized leadership and its solidarity and unity.

"'The correctness or incorrectness of the ideological and political line de-
cides everything.' The leadership in the ideological-political line is the
leadership of Chairman Mao's revolutionary line. Only on the basis of Chair-
man Mao's revolutionary line can an ideological-political unity of the whole
party be achieved, can the party become a united, strong, unified and fight-
ing party, and can it guide the complex struggles in the course of revolu-
tion and accomplish the great historical missions shouldered by us. But the
party leadership inthe ideological-political line and its organizational
leadership are unified and inseparable. Without a correct ideological-politi-
cal line the party's organization cannot be consolidated and developed.
Similarily, the party's organizational consolidation is an important guarantee
for implementing its ideological-political line.

It is therefore necessary to rely upon party organizations at various levels
to implement the party's ideological-political line. If the party's organiza-
tional leadership is written off, its leadership in the ideological-political
line will get nowhere and cannot be exercised... Isn't it true?"

The Gang of Four set the party's leadership in the ideological-political line
against its organizational leadership in a vain attempt to paralyze party
organizations at various levels and write off party leadership as a whole.
They intended to disguise themselves as representatives of the correct line
and the: reincarnation of party leadership. Their “correct line" was not
Chairman Mao's proletarian revolutionary line but their counterrevolutionary
revisionist line designed to usurp party and state leadership. Their "lead-
ership" was not our party's leadership but their factional leadership.

"We must therefore thoroughly expose and criticize this counterrevolutionary
plot of the Gang of Four, enable all party members to know the dialectical
relationship between the party's leadership in the ideological-political line
and its organizational leadership, further strengthen our party concept,
resolutely implement the party's line, principles and policies, adhere to the
principle of the party's democratic centralism, faithfully carry out party
resolutions, strictly observe party discipline and wage resolute struggle
against those who undermine party organizational principles and engage in
antiparty factional activities and splittism.

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character of the party and its leadership role. The cadres and masses on
our economic front must make good use of the Gang of Four as a teacher by
negative example, arm themselves with Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung thought,
strengthen party leadership over economic work and, under the leadership of
the party Central Committee headed by Chairman Hua, deepen the mass movements
of learning from Taching in industry and from Tachai in agriculture and make
new contributions toward accelerating our country's economic growth and re-
alizing the four modernizations in China before the end of the century."

Significance of Production
Peking Domestic Service in Mandarin 1040 GMT 24 Oct 77 OW

[Fourth in a series of talks under the general title: "Deepen the Criticism
of the Gang of Four and Clarify the '10 Do's and Don'ts' on the Economic
Front"; this talk is entitled "Whether or Not It Is Necessary To Promote
Production Well"; previous talks in this series not processed]

[Excerpts] A fundamental task of the continued revolution under the dictator-
ship of the proletariat is to promote production well and rapidly develop the
socialist economy on the basis of putting politics: in command. This is
Marxist common sense. Nevertheless, the Gang of Four deliberately opposed
revolution to production, spread various fallacies, wantonly labéling and
bludgeoning others. They slandered those who promoted production as "crim-
inal" and praised those who sabotaged production as "meritorious," thus
creating an abnormal situation in which "it was wrong to put every effort into
building socialism and it was right to enjoy the fruits of socialism without
having to work." They have inflicted heavy losses on socialist revolution
and construction. We must firmly grasp the key link of class struggle to
penetratingly expose and criticize the ultra-rightist essence of the counter-
revolutionary revisionist line pursued by the Gang of Four. We must set to
rights those things they turned upside down with regard. to right and wrong

on political line, ideology and theory. We must have a correct understanding
of the dialectic relationship between revolution and production and have a
profound understanding of the significance of promoting socialist production
well.

Let use discuss the following four points in connection with the signifi-
cance of promoting production:

1. Efforts to develop socialist production are required to strengthen the
material foundation of the dictatorship of the proletariat in order to defeat
the capitalist forces.

To completely defeat the resistance and restorational activities of the new
and old-line bourgeoisie remains an arduous task to be fulfilled. To fulfill
this task we must rely not only onthe political power of the dictatorship

of the proletariat but on its strong economic power as well. Only by promptly

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With the combined efforts of various medical scientific research units,
medical colleges, basic-level medical personnel and "barefoot" doctors,
Hupeh has achieved great success with the "new 505," a new medicine for
schistosomiasis first manufactured in Hupeh. Through clinical testing it
was shown that the medicine is highly effective and that the period of
treatment is short. It is safe and convenient and the cost is low. It has
been well received by the people of the plague-stricken areas and by medical
personnel.

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EDITORIAL URGES THE RAISING OF MORE BEEF CATTLE
Peking JEN-MIN JIH-PAO in Chinese 5 Nov 77 p 3 HK
[Short commentary: "More Cattle Can be Raised"]

[Summary] Wise leader Chairman Hua pointed out during a visit to Heilung-
kiang Province: "We should also tend the grasslands well and effect a great
advance in stockbreeding." "More cattle can be raised." Chairman Hua's
instructions point out the direction for the energetic development of stock-
breeding and the building of cattle-breeding bases.

"In the past few years Heilungkiang Province has: persisted in raising oxen
in disregard of the 'Gang of Four's' interference and sabotage, energetical-
ly built cattle-breeding bases, introduced fine strains, improved species
and gradually turned local oxen--which are small in size, slow in putting on
weight and low in meat output--into beef cattle which are bigger in size,
quick to gain weight and high in meat output."

With the continuous development of agricultural mechanization, the role of
draft oxen will gradually diminish. "Some people think that 'it is useless
to raise oxen' and 'cattle-raising is a losing business.' They are unwilling
to develop cattle-raising. This is a one-sided view which overlooks another
use of cattle. Certain counties in Heilungkiang Province made use of grass-
lands for the energetic development of beef cattle. This not only helps to
accumulate capital for the realization of agricultural mechanization, con-
solidate and strengthen the collective economy and change agricultural pro-
duction conditions, but also serves to add to the income of commune members,
enliven the market and improve the people's livelihoods. A boost is also
given to foreign trade and export business. Facts and figures cited by
Chao-yuan County regarding the development of raising beef cattle show that
it has great potential."

"What is practiced in Chao-yuan County and other places shows that even in
areas without grassland, cattle can also be raised for meat. The party com-
mittees of the areas concerned should mobilize the masses, make full use of
local favorable conditions and energetically develop cattle and sheep breed-
ing in order to greatly promote stockbreeding."

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TIENTSIN RESEARCHERS DEVELOP PRECISION FLIGHT LOCATOR
Tientsin City Service in Mandarin 1330 GMT 21 Oct 77 SK

[Text] In collaboration with the Tientsin Radio Factory, the Civil Aviation
General Administration and the Tientsin Waterways Bureau, a certain research
institute has succeeded through research in building a high-precision radio
locator set [kao chingtu tingwei i hsi tung shepei]. This success has
closed a gap in precision radio locating technology in China.

This set of equipment comes in two types: the aerial type and the marine
type. Actual application shows that the aerial type can provide accurate and
unerring guidance in flight navigation, thus improving the efficiency and
quality of flight missions, saving labor, reducing labor intensity, lowering
the cost of flight missions, and enabling aircraft to carry out night flights
to serve agricultural interests more satisfactorily.

During a trial application the marine type proved capable of greatly improving
work efficiency. It can be used without being affected by storms and other

weather conditions, enabling a vessel to continue its operations [words
indistinct].

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production plan for the first 10 months. On 10 October, the national day,
Wu-ta Coal Mining Administration overfulfilled its daily crude coal produc-
tion quota by 32 percent, and Hai-po-wan Coal Mining Administration by
77.2 percent. [Huhehot Inner Mongolia Regional Service in Mandarin 1100 GMT
2 Oct 77]

NEW. SUPERSPEED DRILL--Over the past 20 years, cutting tools in China have
been used in many fields of production, and their precision and structure
have reached advanced levels. The Ch'un drill bit [ch'un tsuan 5028 7018],
whose cutting performance greatly topped that of similar drill bits of the
capitalist countries, is so advanced in application that it leaves the
capitalist countries 10 years behind. The superspeed steel which China began
to produce recently is noted for its intensity, hardness, and friction re-
sistance. Metal-cutting methods have also been greatly improved in China.
[Harbin Heilungkiang Provincial Service in Mandarin 1100 GMT 28 Sep 77]

LIGHT INDUSTRY PRODUCTION--Ho-fei municipal light industrial system reported
that by September its total value of industrial production fulfilled this
year's state plan. Total production increased by 16.1 percent as compared
with the same period of last year, scoring the best record in history. [Hofei
Anhwei Provincial Service in Mandarin 1100 GMT 9 Oct 77 HK]

ANHWEI COUNTY COOPERATIVE PROFITS--Fu-yang County (Cha-hua) supply, marketing
cooperative has strengthened the management of the enterprise and enlarged the
scope of business. It has increased profits and accumulated more capital for
the state. In 1976, it delivered to the state a profit of 65,000 yuan. This
year, it has already delivered to the state a profit of 70,000 yuan, up 40 per-
cent over the same period last year. At the same time, it has also delivered
to the state a tax revenue of 120,000 yuan. This supply, marketing coopera-
tive has also run a phosphate fertilizer plant itself and increased for

the state fixed assets of some 100,000 yuan. [Hofei Anhwei Provincial Service
in Mandarin 1100 GMT 4 Oct 77 HK]

SALVAGE SCRAP MATERIALS--The cadres and masses of Ch'u County have actively
retrieved scrap and old materials. According to statistics, the county has
retrieved some 3,800 tons of scrap iron and steel, overfulfilling the year's
task by 34 percent. They have also done a comparatively better job in ful-
filling the tasks of retrieving odd pieces of paper, rags, scrap plastics,
and various other materials. Ch'u County has overfulfilled the task to re-
trieve scrap and old materials for 6 consecutive years. [Hofei Anhwei
Provincial Service in Mandarin 1100 GMT 4 Oct 77 HK]

CHEKIANG ZEOLITE DEPOSITS--A vast deposit of zeolite has been discovered in
Lishui Prefecture, Chekiang Province. Sites indicating apparent zeolite de-
posits have also been discovered in a dozen counties in Chin-hua, Ning-po and
T'ai-chou prefectures. Zeolite is used in certain absorption and catalytic
processes and has many applications, including the treatment of industrial
wastes. In the past all zeolite used in industry in China was made synthetic-
ally. [Hangchow Chekiang Provincial Service in Mandarin 0400 GMT 17 Oct 77
ow]

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ECONOMIC

10 DO'S, 10.DON'TS ON ECONOMIC FRONT CLARIFIED
Party Leadership
Peking Domestic Service in Mandarin 1040 GMT 22 Oct 77 OW

[Second in series of talks entitled: "Deepen the Criticism of the Gang of
Four and Clarify the '10 Do's and 10 Don'ts' on the Economic Front" under
the subtitle: "Whether or Not We Need Party Leadership"]

[Summary] "“'Whether or not we need party leadership’ is the focus of the
struggle between Marxism and revisionism. In this regard. a serious diverg-
ence and sharp struggle exist between our party and the Wang-Chang-Chiang-Yao
antiparty clique. The CCP is a great, glorious and correct party personally
founded by the great leader and teacher Chairman Mao. It is the force at
the core which leads our revolutionary cause. However, to realize its crim-
inal aims to usurp party and state power and restore capitalism, the Gang

of Four wantonly intervened in and undermined our party, resulting in im-
purity in the party's ideological and organizational work and workstyle and
in the weakening and sabotaging of its leadership.

"In the political report delivered at the 11th National CCP Congress, Chair-
man Hua pointed out: To grasp the key link in running the country it is,
necessary to run the party well. To grasp the key link in running the party
it is necessary, first of all, to thoroughly criticize the various fallacies
spread by the Gang of Four on this major issue of party leadership, to elim-
inate their pernicious influence ‘and to truly understand, through the exposure
and criticism of the gang, the significance in strengthening party leadership.
It is of great significance to party building. It is also of great immediate
significance to the mass movement to learn from Taching and build up Taching-
type enterprises and to learn from Tachai and build up Tachai-type counties
throughout the country."

We would like to discuss the issue in the following three parts:



"3. (It is totally impermissible to create antagonism between the central
leadership and the leadership of local party committees at all levels.

"Our party's organizations, from the central to the grassroots levels, are an
entity, and every party organization of any locality, department or unit is
an integral part of the whole party. In other words, the leadership, either
exercised by the party Central Committee or by local party committees at
various levels, is indispensable to party leadership. Of course, the party
Central Committee is the party's supreme headquarters, and its leadership is
of prime importance and plays the most important role. Only under the party
Central Committee's centralized leadership can our party become a strong lead-
ing core and bring its leading role into full play. However, the leadership
of local party committees at various levels is also indispensable. If the
necessary leading role of local party committees under the centralized leader-
ship of the central party committee is negated, the party Central Committee's
leadership will not exist and it will be impossible to exercise the party's
centralized leadership and implement the party's line, principles and policies,
hence making it impossible to see to it that the task of consolidating the
dictatorship of the proletariat is fulfilled down to every grassroots unit. In
this connection Lenin correctly pointed out: 'The activities of the party's
local organizations constitute the foundation of all party activities as a
whole.' Therefore, while strengthening the party Central Committee's cen-
tralized leadership it is necessary to strengthen the leadership of local
party committees at all levels."

The Gang of Four did their utmost to oppose and undermine the leadership of
local party committees at various levels and set the party Central Commit-
tee's leadership against that of local party committees at various levels.
They distorted right and wrong in a vain attempt to paralyze party committees
and even clamored that party committees at various levels must be crushed.
The “central committee" they referred to was not the party Central Committee
headed by Chairman Mao but their factional central committee. Their fol-
lowers openly clamored: "You have your Central Committee and we have ours."
Chiang Ching also said: "If you do not listen to my words it means you do
not listen to party instructions." They wanted to place their own faction
above the party Central Committee as well as party organizations at various
levels.

"We must thoroughly expose and criticize the Gang of Four's criminal scheme
designed to oppose the party Gentral Committee and undermine local party com-
mittees at various levels in order to undermine the leadership of the whole
party, and resolutely obey the command of the party Central Committee headed
by Chairman Hua. In the meantime we must also uphold the leadership of

local party committees at various levels, rigidly carry out resolutions adopted
and instructions issued by local party committees at various levels and never
permit anyone to negate and oppose the leadership of party committees under
any pretext.

"In the report on the revision of the party constitution Vice Chairman Yeh

pointed out: The Gang of Four serves as an excellent teacher by negative
example and has given us a very good lesson by creating confusion on the

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