This issue highlights speeches delivered during the Fourth Major Conference of the Scientific Planning Commission. It also includes sections on the national science and technology research plan, reorganizing national and local libraries for efficient research, addressing issues in archive and data management, improving the production, repair, and supply of scientific equipment, and enhancing chemical production.

A letter to Zhou Enlai informing him that the industrial development plan for China's atomic energy program has not been finalized and that the technical agreement with the Soviet Union must be delayed.

Lin Biao and others ask for instructions on whether to send ethnic Korean officers and soldiers to North Korea.

Zhou Enlai reports on the Soviet plans to strengthen the air force, presumably as a show of force to the American side.

Zhou Enlai and Nie Rongzhen suggest methods to solve the problem of supply and improve coordination in the army command in the northeast China region.

Telegram from Krasvosky to Stalin reporting on the conversation he had with Mao concerning the training of Chinese pilots in MIG-15s and the contruction of three airbases south of Pyongyang.