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 features sections on China-Afghanistan economic exchanges, China-Poland healthcare cooperation, measures for constructing the 1958 state bonds, phytosanitary treatment measures, the State Council's decision to establish the Guannan, Tongru, and Shazhou autonomous prefectures, the abolishment of Huangzhu county, and policies on forest protection and fire prevention.

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 features the text of a resolution to support the Soviet call for disarmament that passed through the National People's Congress. It also includes a joint statement about relations with Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and summarizes a government visit to Tibet. Other sections address strengthening agricultural production cooperatives, problems in education, and provincial administrative concerns, such as the creation of Linxia Autonomous Prefecture for Hui Muslims in Gansu.