This issue features a political report from Zhou Enlai, which discusses the Five-Year Plan, the transformation of Chinese intellectuals, the United States, and Taiwan. It also conveys instructions from the Department of Higher Education, the Ministry of Health, the Sports Committee, and the New Democracy Youth League (later the Communist Youth League) to further develop sports in colleges and universities. Other sections cover various administrative concerns, including the division of districts in Shanghai, the establishment of Guixi Tong Autonomous Prefecture in Guangxi, and the transfer of towns from Jilin Province to Inner Mongolia.

A Cultural Revolution-era newsletter from a group of Shanghai radicals denouncing North Korean leader Kim Il Sung.

An "Internal Reference" report on attitudes amongst students in Shanghai following China's entry into the Korean War.

Report of the Chinese Communist Party Shanghai Municipal Committee Foreign Affairs concerning the situation with respect to foreign trainees and ideas for future improvements.

Transmission of the Municipal Committee State Enterprise Department’s report on actions of humiliation and mockery of North Korean trainees, October 8, 1955.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry reports on procedures for repatriating Koreans and Japanese living in China.