This issue highlights China's support for the Soviet Union’s peace proposal, trade agreements with Sweden and Denmark, and measures to stop the migration of rural populations to urban areas. Additional sections cover preferential treatment for service members and their families during the Spring Festival, rules on handling explosives, the People’s Bank of China’s loan interest rates, coal prices from state-owned coal mines, a proposal for a Chinese phonetic alphabet, reforms to minority group writing systems, the inclusion of socialism courses in higher education institutions, rural recruitment for employment, and preventing rushed year-end spending and work completion.

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 contains content on China-Albania economic exchanges, restoration of private enterprises, cloth supply and production, Ministry of Agriculture  preparing for fall harvest, resolving bookstore and publishing companies conflict on quantity of books to produce, management of traditional Chinese medicine, temporary wages and benefits for higher education students and graduate students after their work distribution, and food safety regulation, 

This issue contains content on summary of 1956 state budget and draft of 1957 state budget, campaign to increase production and saving, maintain stable market prices, finance management, note to British authorities in Hong Kong to let loose of murderer who robbed Chinese sailboat, China-Poland economic exchanges, China-East Germany economic exchanges, Ministry of industry and commerce expenditures, and addressing student dropouts in higher learning institutions and schools of industry and agriculture. 

This issue features content on China's relations with Czechoslovakia. It also includes sections on railways, taxation, contraceptives, disease control, college entrance examinations, and national archives.

This issue contains a report by Zhou Enlai's visit to 11 countries in Asia and Europe, work arrangements, export tax regulations, Japanese encephalitis, national exams, and village reassignment. 

This issue highlights the Standing Committee's resolution to approve the Sino-East German Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation. It also addresses road maintenance and the conservation of gasoline. Other sections discuss the promulgation of simplified Chinese characters, the promotion of standard Mandarin (putonghua), and the distribution of books in rural areas.

This issue begins with orders related to grain conservation. It also includes a statement regarding the departure of Japanese who stayed in China after World War II and documents that address China's exclusion from the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Other sections cover cooperation between Chinese and East German scientists, Sino-Egyptian trade negotiations, and regulations for graduate students in the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Lucien Paye and the supervisor of an exhibit on French technology praise Chinese university students for their enthusiasm and socialized thinking. Mao reacts with skepticism.