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 features content on China's relations with Poland and Yugoslavia. It also has sections on instructions of the State Council on the livelihood of employees, the National Labor Institute around the 1957 Spring Festival, instruction of the Ministry of Supervision on commercial supervision work, and Tianjin's economic management.

This issue features content on China's relations with the German Democratic Republic, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union. It also has sections on bonds for economic construction, the handicrafts industry, sports records and achievements, and heating in workers' dormitories.

This issue covers a Sino-Lebanese trade agreement. It also features a letter that Zhou Enlai wrote to thank the government of Czechoslovakia for agricultural machinery. Other sections address Chinese support for the recently nationalized Suez Canal, transforming private industries into socialist ones, and assigning jobs to university graduates.