This issue contains content on China's efforts to cooperate with Romania and Czechoslovakia in the fields of science and technology, preventing the migration of people from rural areas to urban areas, water irrigation works and fertilizer accumulation campaign, development of advanced agricultural tools, supporting higher education students participation in scientific research for businesses and enterprises, strengthening middle school and normal schools anti-rightist thought curriculum, and heating subsidies for work units.

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 contains content on increasing production and savings, policies related to Mao Zedong's "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People," promoting mass education, establishment of the commission on soil and water conservation, paid sick leave, the State Council's decision on abolishing Chenliu county, and the appointment of a new Chinese ambassador to the GDR.