Ideological and Political Work in the Countryside

Abstract

On 1 November 1982, DENG LIQUN the Secretary in the Secretariat and concurrently Head of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, made an important speech at the All China Conference on Ideological and Political Work in the Countryside. Some excerpts from the speech, revealing the political situation in the countryside, were published in GUANGMING RIBAO (7 November 1982, Beijing).

The excerpts are reproduced below. The translation into English is by SHEELA M URT HY.