Cable from the Department of Consular Affairs, Chinese Foreign Ministry, 'On Anti-Revisionist Propaganda'

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By: Xu Huang, 28/11

Subject: On Anti-Revisionist Propaganda

To: The Yili [Ili] Office [of the Xinjiang Foreign Affairs Department]

Copy: Xinjiang Foreign Affairs Department

South Xinjiang Office [of the Xinjiang Foreign Affairs Department]

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Your (63) No. 90 Circular dated 16 October 1963 has been received.

At present, things are not going well inside the Soviet Union, even more so in Kazakhstan. Therefore, our successful completion of our boundary crossing work is an important aspect of the struggle against revisionism. [We] recommend that you comprehensively study work involving [border] crossings and do a good job in commodity supply work. [We] shall use the actual situation of China to refute the slander against us coming from the Soviet revisionists and their deceitful propaganda [spread] among the Soviet people.

[You] should also frequently complete summaries of anti-revisionist propaganda work according to the local situation. For example, research how to improve the ways and means of propaganda for when personnel from the Soviet side are in our territory for short periods of time or for the Soviet side's strict restrictions on its drivers in China. In the future, please continue to report to the Ministry [of Foreign Affairs] on work related to this area as well as the reactions of the Soviet side. Please note the responses of personnel from the Soviet side to their domestic situation.

On the source problem for Russian language anti-revisionist materials, besides the Xinjiang Foreign Affairs Department supplying your office with Russian language anti-revisionist booklets, your office can also subscribe to Russian dispatches from the Xinhua News Agency via the local post office.

Department of Consular Affairs

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

29 November 1963