Independently Engage in Construction

Comments written by Mao Zedong for Li Fuchun, vice premier of the State Council and director of the State Planning Commission, on the key points of the Second Five-Year Plan issued, in the enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China on June 17, 1958. It was included in the Collected works of Mao Zedong, Volume 7.

Mao Zedong put forward in his criticism: "self-reliance is the main task, foreign aid is the supplement, superstition should be eliminated, industry, agriculture, technology revolution and “Cultural Revolution” should be independently carried out, slave ideology should be knocked down, dogmatism should be buried, good foreign experience should be carefully studied, and bad experience of foreign countries must be studied. This is our route on economic and military fronts.”