Guided by the dialectic thought of unity of opposites, we have engaged ourselves in scientific farming, exploring the laws governing the growth of crops, transforming the contradictions and adopting corresponding technical measures, and as a result, succeeded in carrying out the experiment of "wheat-rice-rice" triple cropping in Taoyuan County. In the course of practice, knowledge, again practice and again knowledge, the late-season rice has continuously outyielded the early-seasoned by virtue of our incessant improvement of technical measures, thus gradually cracking the nut of wheat low-yielding in that locality. In 1976, our 4.3 mu [footnote: 1 mu = 1/15 hectare] experimental plot gave an output of 3,403.8 jin [footnote: 1 jin = 1/2 kilogram] per mu and the 600 mu triple-cropping field of our production brigade 2,000 jin per mu.
I am a peasant of 71. Dragging myself along for 44 years in the old society, I worked for the landlord like a beast of burden. In 1949, I was saved by our great leader Chairman Mao and the Communist Party of China from abyss and misery, and just then began to lead a man's life. I always keep thinking: I owe my all to Chairman Mao. To live up to Chairman Mao's expectations, I will do my best to yield good crops for China's construction as well as the world revolution.
For more than 20 years I've studied conscientiously Chairman Mao's works, taking Chairman Mao's brilliant philosophic thought as a guide to my scientific farming. Responding to Chairman Mao's call: "Get organized" and "Develop production" I took the lead in establishing the first mutual-aid group in our county as early as 1952....