This issue contains the joint declaration between China and the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic, support for the Soviet Union's proposal to withdraw foreign troops from Berlin, updates on administrative reorganization in multiple provinces, establishment of a Maritime Arbitration Commission under the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, and measures to combat schistosomiasis in livestock. Additionally, it discusses the management of annual reports for 1958, organization of rural People's Communes, and diplomatic appointments, including the assignment of ambassadors to Sweden.

This issue addresses significant developments in China, including decisions on the structure and management of People's Communes, the integration of rural financial and trade systems into these communes, and strategies to boost sericulture production. It emphasizes the transition of communes to socialist collective ownership while laying the groundwork for eventual state ownership.

Mao and Australian Communist Party leader E. F. Hill discuss the state the socialist movement in China and on the international stage.

Liu Shaoqi and R.K.Nehru discussed agriculture and the people's communes system.

In a conversation between Mao Zedong and Beqir Balluku, they changed views towards the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the revisionists of Soviet Union, and its invasion of Bulgaria.