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VIII. Is 11 Necessary To Keep liong Kong and Micao Properly Suppilyj;

Hong Kong and Macao are China's territory. Over 99 percent of the inhabitants there are our compatriots. The question of Hong Kong and Macao is left over from history and will be settled in an appropriate way whan conditions are ripe. Under the present circum- stances, the export of supplies to Hong Kong and Macao is a oprolat problem of China's foreign trade.

Chairman Mao and the party Central Committee have always paid serious attention to and ex- pressed extreme concem about the question of Hong Kong and Macao, and set down correct principles and policies regarding them. With regard to the supply of commodities, Premier Chou directed: "Thos areas that are able to do so must share in the burden of

# This is not only keeping Hong Kong and Macao supplied; they are not allowed to step back. an economic question but also a political issue.

The political and economic conditions of Hong Kong are complex; the competition in the marketplace is extremely acute. We must consolidate and expand the patriotic, anti- hegemonic united front there, and unite with all patriotic compatriots in waging a

We must correctly struggle against the imperialists, revisionists and reactionaries. carry out the policies and actively do a good job of supplying Hong Kong and Macao. Wang Hung-wen cried out: "Why should we guarantee supplies to Hong Kong?" "Just supply it with whatever we have. He even threatened to find out who set down the policy toward Hong Kong and Macao. Their criminal aim was to sabotage the principle and policy of the central authorities toward Hong Kong and Macao and to undermine the relations between the mother country and the compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao. This fully exposed the hideous features of this gang of renegades, enemy agents, and counterevolutionaries.

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Both On the whole, our job of keeping Hong Kong and Macao supplied has been done well. areas adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao and remote provinces have committed themselves, as a bounden obligation, to supplying Hong Kong and Macao. The compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao have regarded the supplies of the mother country as an expression of its concern for them, and as an expression of the blood and flesh relationship the people of the mother At one time in the past, country cherish for their compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao.

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the supply of some commodities to Hong Kong and Micao was quite abnormal, a result of the interference and sabotage of the hang of four. We must do the work well and actively increase supplies to Hong Kong and Macao.

In surmary, the above eight questions boil down to whether it is necessary to thoroughly implement the basic policy laid down by Chairman Mao in the splendid work "On the Ten Major Relationships. It is this: "WE MIST DO OUR BEST TO MOBILIZE ALL POSITIVE FACTORS, BOTH INSIDE AND OUTS IDE THE PARTY, POTH AT HOME AND ABROAD, BOTH DIRECT AND INDIRECT, AND MAKE CHINA A POWERFUL SOCIALIST COUNTRY.

In the great struggle to realize the four modernizations and to build a powerful socialist

In the wake of the country, the foreign trade front is charged with an important task. development of industrial and agricultural production and the expansion of foreign rela- tions, there should and can be a substantial development of China's foreign trade. Actively developing socialist foreign trade is as justified, meritorious and glorious as

We must further whip up a new upsurge practicing socialism in a big way on other fronts. in studying Marxist-leninist and Chairman Mao's works, and we must understand and implement

We must further develop in an all-round and correct manner Chairman Mo's thought and line. the mass movement to learn from Taching and Thchai in the field of foreign trade, properly solve the problems of the line and the problems of the leading group and the building

We must firmly of the ranks, and run foreign trade in the spirit of Taching and Tachai. carry out the line of the party's 11th congress, hold high the great banner of Chairman Mao, follow the party's basic line for the historical period of socialism, grasp the key link in running the country well, continue the revolution and strive to build a modern and powerful socialist country!

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