This issue details the State Council's revocation of a court decision regarding railway and water transportation construction, measures for appointing and removing administrative personnel, the creation of a disaster relief committee, guidelines for cotton collection, plans for mass gold production, instructions for improving the production and quality of cash crops, and administrative regulations on managing business account documents from former private industries and commerce. It also includes content on establishing the Tujia-Miao Autonomous Region, abolishing the Xiangxi-Miao Autonomous Region, and creating the Honghe-Hani and Yi Autonomous Region.

This issue contains a protest of the British authorities in Hong Kong for forcing Chinese residents in Hong Kong to move and demolishing their houses, as well as sections on disaster relief work, strengthening fire prevention work through improved technology, anti-food waste efforts, and preparations for the autumn planting season in Shandong Province.

This issue begins by denouncing British and French aggression against Egypt during the Suez Canal Crisis. It also includes a Chinese statement about the Soviet Declaration "to Strengthen Friendship and Cooperation [with] Other Socialist States," which acknowledges tensions between socialist countries and the need to address people's demands in Hungary and Poland. The next sections feature a message from Zhou Enlai to János Kádár, who would lead Hungary after the failed Revolution of 1956, and Sino-Nepali correspondence.