Chou Attacks U.S. Policies

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29801, 18 April 1962, Page 22

Chou Attacks U.S. Policies

(N.ZJ’.A.-Reuter —Copyright) PEKING, April 17. The Chinese Prime Minister (Mr Chou En-lai) attacked United States policies at the National People’s Congress the nation’s Parliament which ended its three-week session of closed meetings yesterday, an official communique said last night.

Mr Chou said the Kennedy Administration had been playing "various so-called peace tricks while intensifying still further its arms expansion, war preparations and aggressive activities,” the communique said. "Premier Chou En-lai stressed that in opposition to the United States imperialist policies of aggression and war we should strengthen the unity and might of the Socialist camp, support the struggle of the masses of various countries against United States imperialism and its followers, unite all the forces that can be united, isolate United States imperialism to the maximum extent, and strive for lasting world peace.” Mr Chou declared that China had "firmly and unswervingly” developed its relations of friendship, mutual assistance, and co-operation with the Soviet Union and other Socialist countries. China’s foreign policy had won widespread support and China had friends everywhere. Internal Situation

To ensure that the purchase and supply of commodities were well done and market supply conditions improved; To work energetically to fulfil foreign trade tasks; To adjust cultural educational and scientific research and public health undertakings and improve the quality of the work done; To carry out, firmly and thoroughly, the policy of building the country with diligence, thrift, and hard work to reduce expenditures and increase revenue;

To continue to improve the work of planning to ensure an all-round balance between the branches of the national economy in the order of agriculture. light industry, and heavy industry.

Turning to the situation at home, Mr Chou said that people throughout the country had made tremendous efforts and achieved outstanding results in overcoming the natural calamities and economic difficulties, he added. “At present the economic situation of the country has already begun to take a turn for the better.” Mr Chou then put forward a 10-point plan for 1962: To increase agricultural production, especially of grain, cotton, and oil-bear-ing crops; To make a rational arrangement of the production of light and heavy industry and increase the output of daily necessities as much as possible; To continue to use material. equipment and manpower where they were most urgently needed; To reduce the urban population and the number of workers and functionaries who had come from the rural areas so as to get them to return to rural productive work and strengthen the agricultural front;

To make stock inventories and to examine and fix the amount of funds for each enterprise so that the unused material and funds would be used where they were needed most;