publications industry in China, appeared _in the September 30 daily bulletin of the Hsinhua News Agency. It is datelined Peking. ]
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Chinese printing workers, full of revolutionary enthusiasm and affection for their great leader, Chairman Mao, are rushing off the press volumes of Chairman Mao's works and portraits of him.
In-the past month and more, they have printed more than 3,000,000 sets of the four volumes of Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung in addition to over 5,000,000 single volumes. They have also turned out tens of millions of Selected Readings from Mao Tse-tung's Works, Quotations from Chairman Mao and his articles in pamphlet form.
A total of about 30,000,000 copies of Chairman Mao's portraits are expected to come off the press before China's national day, October first.
Printing-house workers all over the country were greatly encouraged by the recent decision of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist party on speeding up the mass production of Chairman Mao's works. They beat drums and gongs to express their joy and excitement and wrote big-character posters and held meetings to express their determination to implement the party's call.
Comments like these are often heard: "Mao Tse~tung's thought is the neversetting red sun in the hearts of the people of China and the whole world. Chairman Mao's writings are the steering wheel and illuminating light for the revolution. The party's Central Committee places the greatest trust in us printing workers by calling on us to make as our most honoured, urgent and important task, the printing of Chairian Mao's works and his portraits."
“They immediately set to work and placed. the publication. of Chairman | Mao's
works as their supreme ‘political task. So that millions of revolutionary people could obtain Chairman Mao's works as soon as possible and arm themselves with Mao Tse-tung's thought and millions of revolutionary households could put up Chairman Mao's portraits and see the smiling face of their most respected” and beloved leader every day. =:
The dozens of printing houses in the capital are ail busy turning out works by Chairman Mao and portraits of him. Since the-decision of the party Central Committee more than a month ago, Peking has printed 6,600,000 volumes of Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung and 4,000,000 copies of Chairman Mao! s portraits, exceeding the total: printed in the’ last few years. The printers of various nationalities at the nationality publishing house are turning out Chairman Mao's works in the Tibetan, Uighur, Kazakh, Mongolian and Korean languages.
The quantity of Chairman Mao's works to be printed in Shanghai, China's printing center, this year alone will equal the total printed in the past decade and more.
Printers in Urumchi, capital of the Sinkiang-Uighur autonomous region, have pledged to send newly printed writings by Chairman Mao to the peasants and herdsmen north and south of the Tienshan Mountains and make newly printed portraits of Chairman Mao available in the remotest areas in Sinkiang before national day.”
Printers in many parts of the country have raised the slogan of "Study well, apply well and print Chairman Mao's writings well." They put up Chairman Mao's portraits in the workshops and quotations from his works at the side of their machines and study Chairman Mao's writings before and after work. They regard the -large-scale printing of Chairman Mao's works as a revolutionary undertaking and a glorious task that must be fulfilled in the spirit of revolution, quickly and well. In a number of printing houses that are printing Chairman Mao's works for the first time, the workers displayed the spirit of daring to struggle and to win and overcame many difficulties before they turned out high quality products. Happy at their success, the workers said, "This is the victory of Mao Tse-tung's thought, the victory of the great proletarian cultural revolution."
The number one printing house in Wuhan and the Hsinghua printing house in - Kiangsu province are small and poorly equipped establishments “which used to print forms and receipts. But the workers succeeded in overfulfilling their plans for printing the Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung and Selected Readings from Mao Tse-tung's Works before national day. When they received the assignment, the workers said, "Chairman Mao teaches us that man is the decisive factor. Machines are dead things, while man is living. Armed with the invincible thought of Mao Tse—tung, we can surmount any great difficulties." The workers made outmoded machinery work effectively.
While printing Mao Tse-tung's works, workers of the Hsinhua printing. house in Szechuan province found a way to lengthening the life span of the lead plates, which can now be used to make 410,000 impressions as against 110,000 formerly. After studying Chairman Mao's article, "The Foolish Old Man Who Removed the Mountains,"
the workers finally succeeded in making the plates last longer after conducting no fewer than 50 experiments. Many of the workers remarked: "Printing the works of Chairman Mao means producing powerful spiritual atom bombs. We will read and print Chairman Mao's works all our lives and be propagandists of Mao Tse- ~tung' s thought."