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I. 20 Oct 77
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NATIONAL APPAIRS
The "gang of four" were opposed to the slogan of learning from other countries puc for- ward by Chairman Mao, to exchanges between China and the outside world and to the importation of advanced technology anxi equipment, Their oriminal aim was to retard the development of our country's science and technology and sabotage our country's socialist construction in coordination with the policies of blockade, embargo, restric- tion and discrimination applied by the imperialists, revisionists and reactionaries against our county. We must expose their scheme, criticize their fallacies, unswery- ingly follow the correct line, principles and policies laid down by Chairman Mao, and actively develop socialist foreign trade,
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Is It Necessary To Stick to the Policy of Controlling Foreign Trade?
On the eve of the founding of the PRC, Chairman Mao dwelt in depth on the importance of controlling foreign trade, He explicitly pointed out: "THE TWO BASIC POLICIES OF THE STATE IN THE ECONOMIC STRUGGLE WILL BE REGULATION OF CAPITAL AT HOME AND CONTROL OF FOREIGN TRADE. WHOEVER OVERLOOKS OR BELITTLES THYS POINT WILL COMMIT EXTREMELY SERIOUS MISTAKES." In accordance with Chairman Mao's instructions, in the initial period of the People's Republic, while destroying all sorts of privileges which the imperialists enjoyed in old China, we immediately imposed control over foreign trade, reformed the customs system, set up state-owned foreign trade enterprises, carried out systematic socialist transformation of private import and export businesses and introduced and maintained the policy of controlling foreign trade. In 1958, the party Central Committae made the decision to enforce unified standards in dealing with the outside world in foreign trade. The policy of controlling foreign trade and the principle of unified standards in dealing with the outside world are manifestations of China's proletarian dictatorship in its external economic struggle.
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The "gang of four" opposed the policy of controlling foreign trade and the principle of unified standards in dealing with the outside world. They accused the foreign trade departments of practicing "monopoly," clamoring for "a revolution against monopoly. What did they want to do? This gang of careerists and conspirators wanted to monopolize foreign trade for themselves, turn proletarian monopoly into bourgeois monopoly and restore capitalism. This was a stark manifestation on the foreign trade front of the ultrarightist essence of the "gan of four's" counterrevolutionary revisionist line.
We must continue to adhere to the policy of controlling foreign trade and the principle of unified standards in dealing with the outside world. At the same time, we must follow the teaching given by Chairman Mao in "On the Ten Major Relationships" on the correct handling of the relationship between the central and the local authorities. Provided that the unified leadership of the central authorities is consolidated, we must give free rein to the initiative of the local autnorities and allow them to do more things. We must continue to improve the administrative structure of foreign trade in accordance with the principle of facilitating the application of unified stan- dards in dealing with the outside world, facilitating the development of the two sources of initiative and facilitating the improvement of operational management. We mist continue to adhere to and promote the practice of consulting with local authorities in doing things. Regarding all those things that concern the local authorities, we must first consult with them and proceed with work only after proper consultations have been held.
III. Is It Necessary To Implement Chairman Mao's Revolutionary Line in Foreign Affairs According to His Strategic Three Worlds Concept?
Chairman Mao's great strategic three worlds concept is the basis for distinguishing between enemies and friends in international struggles and the basis for establishing the broadest united front. [paragraph continues]