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Problems of labour discipline should be dealt with through the proper channels and should not be swept up in the struggle against bourgeois liberalisation.
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Discussion of the role of trade unions and their place in the political system was not bourgeois liberalisation but should be continued. needed new solutions.
New problems
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A similar line, though not so specific, was taken by Yuan Baohua, a Vice-Minister of the State Economic Commission in a speech on 24 February concerning the conduct of the struggle against bourgeois liberalisation in the workplace. He said that problems of economic work and enterprise reform should be analysed in a practical way and dealt with on their merits, they should not be bound up in the struggle against bourgeois liberalisation.
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The Minister of Film, Radio and Television, Ai Zhisheng, told a meeting on television work which was held in Xiamen from 16 to 21 February, that the struggle against bourgeois liberalisation should not affect the variety of television programming. It was of course necessary to hold fast to the four basic principles, but that did not mean involving the struggle against bourgeois liberalisation in every question. Variety of style and creativity in technique was still essential. On the other hand on 25 February Guangming Daily published a commentary on and a lengthy summary of proceedings at a symposium on the television series "Triumphant Return at Midnight" which hinted very strongly at considerable tensions within the television world. "Triumphant Return" was highly praised for its treatment of revolutionary heroism (it is apparently about fighting on the Vietnamese border) at a time when the tide of bourgeois liberalisation was running high and when some leading officials in literary and art circles were actually encouraging a competition in vilifying and insulting the Chinese nation, the Chinese people and Chinese history. The commentary was full of traditional language, quoting Mao's line at the 1942 Yenan forum as the correct line for artistic work.
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The Director of the State Council's Religeous Affairs Bureau, Ren Wuzhi, told the Buddhist Association on 25 February that the policy of religious freedom was a long standing one and woul not be changed. Holding to the four cardinal principles did not mean that the government required people to abandon religious beliefs so long as they did not oppose the dissemination of Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong thought or interfere in political judicial or educational affairs. The Panchen Lama also spoke in similar terms to the same meeting.
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