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PEKI L7 I April 28, 1978 Refuting a Wrong Assessment lI Of Literature and Art 4 New Yictory for Ponomonion A People -{k Railwoys: Labour Emulation Drive PEKING Yol. 21, No. t7 April 28, t9llt REVIEW Published in Englist5 French, Spanish, Japance, German, Arabic and th d, [^.e Poriuguese editions TBEUINd aIoUBAo CONTENTS I}IE WEEX Upswing in lndustriol Production : ARIICIES AND DOCUMENTS Press On Wth the Three Greot Revolutionory Movements Simultoneously - Remrfin &iboo editoriol 1 Refuting o Wrong Asscssment of Literoturc ond Art-Criticizing the "gong of . four's" follocy of "dictotorship of o sinister line" 7 Rotlficotion of New Ponomo Conol Treoty: Ncw Uictory lor Ponomonion peoplc fi Chinese Press Survey: For the Welfore of tha Mosses 13 Roilwoy (l): lobour Emulotion Driuc--Our Correspondents [i Mu ond Hsiong Jun! 11 For Your Reference: Centensiy .of Chinese Roilwuys 17 lnequitoble Economic Order: World Groin ftoduaion ond the Reloted Struggle n Sports: Third Aslon Bodminton tnvitotion Chompionships 2, Competition Results 23 The World Bodminton Federotion 21 Reminiscences: Edgor Snow ond His "Red Stor Over Chino"-Chiong Shon I rOUNb IHE WORTD 28 Democrotic Kompucheo: Third Anniversory Zimbobwe: Dor-es-Soloom Tolks Jopon-soviet Fishery Agreement: Jopon Forced to Moke Concessions ON THE HOME FNON Chlno's Recoveroble Sotellites ' Nerrrr Housing in Shonghoi Lorgest Protected Noturol Resere Publlshed every Fridoy by PEKING REVIE\A/, Peking p7), Chino Post Offlce Reglstrction No, 2-*t2, Printed ln the P€ople's Republic of Chino THE WEEK Upswing in lnduslrial were all overfulfilled in the creases over the same 1977 production of steel, pig iron, period. Production rolled steel, eight kinds of non- The leading member of th'e Total industriql oufpu1 yslus ferrous rnetals, power, crudp State Economic Commission in Shanghai, China's largest oil, coal, timber, chemical fer- pointed out that the implemen- industrial city, in the first tilizer, sulphuric acid, caustic tation of the gUidelines of the quarter of this year topped_all soda, cement, chemical fibre, Fifth National People's' Con- previous records for the same paper, cardboard and in the Vol- gress and. the ex$osure and period by 26 per cent. Produc- ume of railway freight trans- critieism of the 'gang's sabo- tion of over 40 kinds of maj6r port. Compared with the same tage are a powerful impetus to industrial goods outstripped the period of last year, the output industrial prodqction. Szechuari, targets set by the state plan. of crude oil, for example, in- Yunnan, Honan, Chekiang and As for tlre various provihces, creased by 10.3 per cent, while Kiangsi Provinces' total' indrx- municipalities and autonomous natural gas rose by 15.1 per cent, trial output in the'first quar- regions, gross industrial output coal by 26.8 per cent, and chem- ter regii,stered increases of 30 value in the first guarter also ical fertilizer, pesticides and per cent and more compared showed a big increase over that tractors by over 50 pef cent. The with the eorresponding period of. the same period of last year volume of railway freight trans- of last year. Industrial de- and hit an all-time high. This port topped that of the same partments convened a series speedy growth of industrial period of last year.by 30.2 per of conferences; socialist em- production has been'sustained cent. ulation campaigns were launch- since the beginning of April. The metallurgical industry ed between factories, and A leading member of the which , was seriously under- the workers' initiative is soar- State Ecdnomic Commission mined by the "gang of four" is ing. AI1 this accounts for the declared'that the state plan fgrging ahead too. Ou'tput of growth of industrial production. for the first quarter was steel, pig iron, iron ore, rolled fulfilled extremely steel, IN THE NEWS well - major .varieties of steel something .seldom seen before products and eight kinds of o Keng Piao, Member of the since the founding of New non-ferrous metals in the first Political Bureau and Head of China. Quotas set by the state three months chalked'up big in- the International Liaison De- partment of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party of Cilina, on April20 met with a delegation of the Marxist- Leninist Revoluti6nary Com- munist Party of France led by its General Secretary Cluzot. o Li Hsien-nien, Vice-Chair- man of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Keng Piao, Member of the Political Bureau of the C.P.C. Central Corirmittee, on April 21 met with a delegation of the Central Committee of the Porbrgiuese Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) Ied by its General Secretary Heduino Assembllng mhlag mochlnes rit Honan Provlnce's Pindlngshan Coal Mlne. Vilar. Aptil 28, 1978 Press 0n Uith the Three Great fieuolutionary tloYements $imultaneously llll!lllInilllrllllll!llllllllllililr!llillltllllilllllllllIlllllIIillllllrIIIIllilllltIrIrllllllr! \YfE must grasp the three great revolutionary provide further exposition of the significance of W *or"*unts of class struggle, the struggle the three great revolutionary movdments and for production and scientific experiment at the the dialectical relationship between them, and same time; this is of vital importance for ful- call on us to be good at combining the three filling the general task in the new period of movements and to persist in so doing. development* to build China into a powerful The three great revolutionary movements socialist country. nare integral parts of the continued revolution Chairman Mao consistently stressed the need under the dictatorship of the proletariat. They to press on with all three movements together. are independent of each other in a relative sense, With the smashing of the "gang of four," the each has its own characteristics and laws of Party Central Committee headed by Chairman development, and they are not iriterchangeable. Hua has taken firm hold of the class struggle to They are interconnected, are conditioned by expose and repudiate the "gang of four," has each other and promote each other's develop- drawn up very concrete plans for developing the ment. The "gang of four," putting up an ultra- national economy and economic work including "Left" facade, muddled the people's thinking by agriculture and industry, communieations and spreading the notion that class struggle covers transport, finance and trade and effectively everything. They would not let the people promoted the development of the country's undertake any one of the three great revolu- science, culture and education. They have set tionary movements, in order to give themselves splendid examples of grasping the three great a free hand in plotting to usurp Party and state revolutionary movements simultaneously. Chair- power and conducting a bourgeois class struggle firan Hua's report on the work of the government against the proletariat. at the Fifth National People's Congress and'his Class struggle is the key link among the speech at the National Science Conference three great revolutionary movements and the advancing the socialisl * general direct motive force in fhe task in the new period of de- - velopment isr To firmly carry out the line of the revolution and socialist construction. lbis key llth Party Congress, steadfastly Continue the rev- link must be grasped at all times in carrying out proletariat, olution under the dictatorship of the the general task. "Taking class struggle as the deepen the three great revolutionary movements Ot class strugglg the struggle for production anil key link" is something entirely different from scientific experiment, and make China a great and what the "gang of four" advocated. Ttrey used powerful socialist country modern with a6ricul- it to persecute people so as to attain their crim- ture, industry, national detence and science and technology by the end of the century. inal aim of usurping Party and state power. Reoiew, No. 77 4 Peking Class struggle as the key link means paying close duction well is one,of the fundamental tasks of attention to the struggle between the two classes, the dictatorship of the proletariat. With polit- the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, and the ical power in the hands of the proletariat, eactr struggle between socialist and capitalist roads. step in developing production becomes a mate- At present and for some time to come, it means rial force for struggling against capitalist res- the struggle to expose and repudiate the "gang toration and strengthens the material basis of of four." Only by grasping this key link can the dictatorship of the proletariat. If we do we keep to the socialist orientation, arouse the not pay attention to tlre struggle for production, revolutionary determination of the people, clear how will we get food or clothing, let alone go away obstacles to the four modernizations and in for socialist cronstruction or consolidating the promote production, construction and scientific dictatorship of the proletariat? Ordinary at- experiment. tention to production or satisfaction with developing production at ordinary speed will not do. While the "gang of four" were running We must bring the superiority of the socialist amuck, China's national economy approached. system into full play so that production devel- the brink of collapse. The gap between China's ops at high speed. Chairman Hua has pointed level of science and technolggy and the world's out: question of the speed of construction advanced "level, which had been gradually nar- "The is a political rather than a purely economic ques- rowed, was widened again. Failure to take cliass tion. When viewed in the light of the interna- struggle as the key link and to overthrow the tional class struggle, the political nature of this "gang of four" would have rneant that China's question stands out still more sharply." The socialist economy and science, education and "gang of four" kept distorting this question, culture could not go ahead.

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