Covers Premier Zhou Enlai’s message of sympathy to Morocco following an earthquake, regulations on motor vehicle management, and directives to support drought relief through agricultural machinery supplies.

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This issue addresses significant developments in China, including decisions on the structure and management of People's Communes, the integration of rural financial and trade systems into these communes, and strategies to boost sericulture production. It emphasizes the transition of communes to socialist collective ownership while laying the groundwork for eventual state ownership.

This issue introduces regulations for utilizing wild starch plants to support food and industrial production, administrative reorganization that includes merging and reclassifying several counties, and policies outlining local government management of enterprises to enhance efficiency and local autonomy. It emphasizes balancing resource exploitation with conservation and involves major administrative decisions in areas like Inner Mongolia and Guangdong, including the establishment of ethnic autonomous counties.

This issue condemns the United States for its interference in Indonesia's internal affairs, highlighting China's support for Indonesia's sovereignty and anti-imperialist struggle. It also announces taxation adjustments to enhance economic efficiency and provides detailed guidance on developing and distributing agricultural machinery tailored for cooperative societies to boost productivity. The issue underscores the importance of international solidarity and domestic resource management in fostering agricultural and economic growth.

This issue focuses on science and technology cooperation between China and Poland, a draft of the 1958 national economic plan, using wine as a substitute in response to grain shortages, strengthening farmland, expanding water conservancy projects, composting campaigns, improving working conditions for high-level intellectuals, and transferring active-duty officers to government positions.

Published by the Ministry of Light Industry, Zhu Mei's 'How to Run a Small Scale Brewery' (September 1958) introduced beer and beer making to Chinese audiences. Zhu's pamphlet also calls for the construction of hundreds of small scale breweries across China.

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.

Peng Zhen and Barbu Zaharescu discuss China's "great famine."