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Salient. Official Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 40 No. 10. May 16 1977

Modernization and Chinese leaders

Modernization and Chinese leaders.

The publication of Chairman Mao's Ten Major Relationships precisely shows that progress, modernisation a high standard of living, are not incompatible to socialism, but actually what it should promote. On it, therefore, hinges the whole process of the continuation of socialism in China, to achieve what Mao Tsetung said in 1949 — a strong modern prosperous and socialist China. Modernisation has always been on Mao's books.

There is therefore no de-Maoisation, but only the carrying out of Mao's real policies creatively applied by Premier Chou En-lai.

Chou En-Lai therefore stands now with Mao together as the builders of China. Together with them stand those old and true and tried revolutionary companions, who for so may years laid down their lives to make it possible for a quarter of humanity today to look forward to the future with confidence.

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There is, therefore, a demand, and I think it may be fulfilled, that the Mausoleum for Chairman Mao in Peking should also have place for Premier Chou En-Lai, for Chu Teh, perhaps also for others. The Chinese revolution was possible primarily because of the leadership and teaching of Mao. But he was not alone in it. With him were all the others, and with him were also the Chinese people. So this lesson is one that is manifested today, and which shows that, far from de-Maoisation, the true spirit of Mao's teaching and the true understanding of what he meant has at last permeated among the people of China.