Grasp Revolution, Promote Production

This slogan, which first appeared in People's Daily in November 1966, is perhaps linked to the decision to permit industrial workers to participate in the Cultural Revolution. It also reinforces the Party's long-standing obsession with increased productivity.

As the panorama below the flags makes clear, there were three strategically important strands to the productivity drive: industrial production; agricultural production; and socialist construction in the form of dams for power and irrigation, rural electrification, and landscape modification.