¹ See W.K., “China's Third Five-Year Plan,” issue No. 25.

² B.B.C., Summary of World Broadcasts (SWB), FE/2051.

³ For a discussion of the meaning of recent developments in Party-Army relations see the article on p. 58 of this issue.

⁴ For the NCNA report see SWB, FE/2066.

⁵ For extracts from Hsiao Hua's report, see below.

⁶ See in particular the fourth editorial on February 18, excerpts from which appear in SWB, FE/2102. Other editorials appeared on February 4 (Survey of China Mainland Press [SCMP] [Hong Kong: U.S. Consulate-General]), February 10 (SCMP, No. 3645), February 14 (SWB, FE/2090), March 2 (SWB, FE/2104), March 23 (SWB, FE/2127).

⁷ NCNA, January 24.

⁸ SWB, FE/2066.

^8a The “four firsts” involve: giving first place to man as between man and weapons; giving first place to political work as between political and other work; giving first place to ideological work as between ideological and routine tasks in political work; and, in ideological work, giving first place to living ideas as between ideas in books and living ideas, ideas currently in the minds of people.

^8b A “four good” company is a company that is good in political and ideological work, good in the “three-eight” style of work, good in military training, and good in arranging the men's welfare.

⁹ SWB, FE/2084.

¹⁰ SWB, FE/W35O.

¹¹ SWB, FE/2090.

¹² This and all subsequent articles cited are translated in Current Background (CB) 783 (Hong Kong: US Consulate-General).

¹³ “The Great Upheaval is an Excellent Thing,” People's Daily, March 1 (emphasis added).

¹⁴ People's Daily, March 7.

¹⁵ CCP Central Committee letter, SWB, FE/2120.

¹⁶ SWB, FE/2077.

¹⁷ SWB, FE/2125.

¹⁸ For the full sequence of communications see SWB, FE/2058, 2061, 2076, 2082, 2095.

¹⁹ The Times, March 15.

²⁰ SWB, FE/2118.