The most important tasks of the Cultural Revolution are ....

文化革命的主要任务是 ...
Wenhua gemingde zhuyao renwu shi ...
The most important tasks of the Cultural Revolution are ....
1958, June
Sichuan renmin chubanshe (四川人民出版社)
54x77 cm.
BG E15/750

Part of the Great Leap Forward was a Cultural Revolution (not to be confused with the Cultural Revolution from 1966-1976). This poster, the final one of a series we unfortunately do not have, spells out what should be accomplished in this Cultural Revolution.

The text reads "The main tasks of the Cultural Revolution are: sweeping away illiteracy, popularizing primary schooling, gradually having junior high schools at all village levels, having senior high schools and institutions for scientific research at all regional and many district levels; completely creating and reforming the writing of ethnic minorities, enthousiastically reform Chinese writing; eradicate the "four pests", practice hygiene, promote sports, eradicate the main diseases, smash superstition, change habits, awaken people's spirit; organize mass cultural and sports activities, develop socialist literature and art; nurture a new intellectual class, reform the old intellectuals, build an army of ten million intellectuals from the working class, among whom is an army of technical cadres (which should be the largest in numbers), professors, lecturers, scientists, journalists, literary writers, artists and Marxist-Leninist theorists".