This issue emphasizes integrating cadre participation in manual labor to strengthen ties with the masses, merging two commercial departments for administrative efficiency, and issuing strategic directives to boost industrial production, particularly in steel and aluminum sectors.

This issue discusses a postal agreement between China and Myanmar, initiatives to assist former service officers in gaining employment in industrial production, strengthening the letter mail and visitor systems, and eliminating illiteracy in Shandong province.

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 contains content on the anti-rightist campaign, soil and water conservation, adjusting price of beef, construction of scientific research institutions, dietary fiber for livestock, work assignments for recent graduates from higher education institutions, regulations for four year graduate level students, provisions on wages and subsidies after job transfers, compensation for higher education interns and their duty as leaders and technical directors, using animal power for transportation needs, and harvest plans.

This issue reprints Mao Zedong's speech "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People," originally delivered in February 1957. It also features statements concerning the punishment of officials who were responsible for famine-induced starvation in Guangxi province in 1956, the summer harvest, loan collection processes, agricultural pest control, transition from trainee to formal worker, and the management of waste in Beijing.

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 a statement about American forces in Taiwan, freight cars, taxation on small businesses, protection against wind disasters, prevention of sore diseases, the transition of apprentices to full time employees, and a change in diplomatic appointments to Albania. 

This issue contains sections on the national economic plan, food and cooking oil, meeting expenses, taxation of contraceptives, public utilities, maternal health and childcare, and procedures for dismissing workers. 

This issue contains sections on pork, real estate taxes, forestry, cultural relics, and graduate employment.

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.