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SOOPY NO. 51
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20 Oct 77
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- 7 DEC 1977
REPUBLIC INDEX ; NATIONAL AFFAIRS,
LI CHIANG DISCUSSES FOREIGN DE POLICY
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HK190940Y Peking RED FLAG No 10 in Chinese 8 Oct 77 pp 31-38 HK
[Article by Minister of Foreign Trade Li Chiang:
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"Distinguish Between Right and Wrong
in Line and Actively Develop Socialist Foreign Trade"]
[Text] The Chinese people are joyously celebrating the 28th anniversary of the founding of the PRC amid the excellent situation in which the 11th national congress of the party has been victoriously held. Looking back at the past and forward to the future, we are full of confidence in our victory.
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Chairman Hua said: "At present and for some time to come, the struggle to expose and criticize the gang of fourt will still be the focus of the two-class, two-road struggle. To grasp this struggle is to grasp the key link." Juding by the foreign trade front, despite the efforts made by the vast number of cadres and masses to resist and struggle against the interference and sabotage of the " gang of four," their pernicious influence and effects have not been small and must under no circumstances be under- estimated. In accordance with Chairman Hua's instructions, we must carry out the great struggle to penetratingly expose and criticize the "gang of four" through to the end. Under the leadership of the party Central Committee and the party committees at various levels, we must continue to fight campaign by campaign and set right one by one the things reversed by the "gang of four" in regard to the line so that we will thoroughly eliminate their pernicious influence and effects. On the economic front, we must solve the "10 ifs," i.e., if it is necessary to uphold the party's basic line, to have party leadership, to rely on the working class wholeheartedly, to make a success of production, to institute rules and regulations, to have socialist accumulation of funds, to enforce the principle of "from each according to his ability, to each according to his work," to have proletarian experts, to import new technology and to have a planned economy. This will provide us with a clear orientation with which to penetratingly expose and criticize the "
gang of four" with Mao Tsetung Thought as the weapon, to distinguish between right and wrong in line and to eradicate their pernicious influence and effects. This is com- pletely applicable to foreign trade work. We must first of all solve these general problems. At the same time, we must come to grips with a number of problems in foreign trade work, which the "gang of four" disrupted and which was more seriously affected by their pernicious influence, conduct revolutionary mass criticism and distinguish between right and wrong in line.
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Is It Necessary To Develop Socialist Foreign Trade?
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On this question, great teachers Lenin and Chairman Mao gave positive answers both in theory and in practice. Lenin said: 11 ...IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY FOR US TO TRADE WITH CAPITALIST COUNTRIES (SO LONG AS THEY HAVE NOT COMPLETELY COLLAPSED)." and External Situation of the Soviet Republic," from the "Collected Works of Lenin, " Vol 33,
("On the Internal 184) Chairman Mao said: "THE CHINESE PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO CARRY OUT FRIENDLY COOPERATION WITH THE PEOPLE OF ALL COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD IN RESTORING AND DEVELOPING INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE IN ORDER TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRODUCTION AND A FLOURISHING ECONOMY. "1 However, the "gang of four" openly defied the teachings of the great teachers. maligned foreign trade, attacking imports as "worshipping things foreign and fawning They on foreigners" and exports as "capitulation and national betrayal" become quite frantic at one time, these counterrevolutionary outcries caused considerable confusion.
Chairman Mao taught us: "ON WHAT BASIS SHOULD OUR POLICY REST? IT SHOULD REST ON OUR OWN STRENGTH, AND THAT MEANS REGENERATION THROUGH ONE'S OWN EFFORTS." Under Chairman Mao's leadership and by relying on our own efforts, we toppled the three big mountains and established the PRC. [paragraph continues]