This issue includes statements condemning amendments to the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty and emphasizing China's solidarity with Japan's peace movements. On a diplomatic front, it records China's establishment of formal relations with Sudan, highlighting reciprocal communications between Mao Zedong and Sudanese leaders. Domestically, it details economic reforms such as adjusting trade and agricultural policies, changes in administrative divisions, and the integration of scientific committees.

This issue highlights a joint communique between Mao Zedong and Nikita Khrushchev, affirming Sino-Soviet solidarity on key international issues, and a declaration with Cambodia on establishing diplomatic ties and promoting cultural exchange. It also includes policies for developing local resources while safeguarding traditional Chinese medicine supplies, and details about land-use adjustments for construction projects in Hunan province.

This issue details the State Council's revocation of a court decision regarding railway and water transportation construction, measures for appointing and removing administrative personnel, the creation of a disaster relief committee, guidelines for cotton collection, plans for mass gold production, instructions for improving the production and quality of cash crops, and administrative regulations on managing business account documents from former private industries and commerce. It also includes content on establishing the Tujia-Miao Autonomous Region, abolishing the Xiangxi-Miao Autonomous Region, and creating the Honghe-Hani and Yi Autonomous Region.

This issue contains Mao Zedong's congratulations to Habib Bourguiba for being elected as president of Tunisia as well as content on China-Hungary economic exchanges, China-Hungary science and technology cooperation, agricultural tax collection, creation of committees to for management of market prices, preventing pest from getting into cotton, and strengthening leadership of grassroots health organizations. 

This issue reprints Mao Zedong's speech "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People," originally delivered in February 1957. It also features statements concerning the punishment of officials who were responsible for famine-induced starvation in Guangxi province in 1956, the summer harvest, loan collection processes, agricultural pest control, transition from trainee to formal worker, and the management of waste in Beijing.

This issue includes a statement from Mao about the establishment of agricultural cooperatives. Other sections discuss plans for the Sixth Plenary Session of the Seventh CCP Central Committee, the Sino-Egyptian trade agreement, and trade negotiations between China and Ceylon (later Sri Lanka). Furthermore, it includes a joint statement from Peng Zhen, General Secretary of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and the head of a delegation from the Japanese Diet, Kanbayashiyama Eikichi.

Mao Zedong’s comments on agriculture and industry at a Communist Party meeting held in Shanghai.

Another version of Mao Zedong's remarks at a Communist Party meeting held in Shanghai, a key talk in scholarly debates about China's Great Leap Forward.

A key document in scholarly debates about the Great Leap Forward, this file summarizes Mao Zedong’s comments on agriculture and industry at a Communist Party meeting held in Shanghai.

Hua Guofeng assesses developments in China since the Chinese Communist Party "smashed the Gang of Four" in 1976. He calls for the CCP to continue to follow the path laid down by Mao Zedong, and comments on China's economic policy and foreign policy.