Modern

Author: Chen Yilin
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: During the 1959 Lushan Conference, Mao Zedong heard that his staff had received local specialties such as fruits, tea, silk, etc. That day, he summoned Wang Dongxing, then Vice Governor of Jiangxi Province and a participant in the Long March, to Lushan and instructed: "You come back, take charge of the Office. Your main task upon returning is to carry out rectification!" Mao Zedong handled these gifts with both principle and tact. All valuable gifts were turned over to the state and specially displayed. For locally produced specialties that could not be preserved, the fruits were given to kindergartens, and several packages of tea were distributed to his staff. — Mao Zedong's Last Steward