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 summary of 1956 national economic plan, overseas Chinese people donating money to set up schools in China, overseas Chinese people investing in businesses in China, and re-education through labor.

This issue contains content on increasing production and savings, policies related to Mao Zedong's "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People," promoting mass education, establishment of the commission on soil and water conservation, paid sick leave, the State Council's decision on abolishing Chenliu county, and the appointment of a new Chinese ambassador to the GDR.

This issue contains content on China's relations with Nepal. It also has sections on the demobilized soldiers, business and commerce, coal production, forestry, ideological and political education, and the 1956 natural science awards.