Announces a forthcoming national conference recognizing advances in education, culture, and health; progress in coal conservation efforts; and inspections of spring farming and irrigation preparations.

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This issue highlights China's support for the Soviet Union’s peace proposal, trade agreements with Sweden and Denmark, and measures to stop the migration of rural populations to urban areas. Additional sections cover preferential treatment for service members and their families during the Spring Festival, rules on handling explosives, the People’s Bank of China’s loan interest rates, coal prices from state-owned coal mines, a proposal for a Chinese phonetic alphabet, reforms to minority group writing systems, the inclusion of socialism courses in higher education institutions, rural recruitment for employment, and preventing rushed year-end spending and work completion.

This issue addresses rewards and punishments for state administrative personnel, increasing coal production and energy savings, a report on urban market management challenges, initiatives to provide rural residents with books on modern production technologies, cultural education programs for rural populations, temporary wages for students from higher education institutions, and regulations on allowances for graduate students labeled as anti-socialist or disruptive elements.

This issue contains content on China's relations with Ceylon (Sri Lanka). It also has sections on the five year plan, cotton, construction bonds for farmers, electricity fees, rural commercial taxation, coal production, agricultural loans, and village name changes.

This issue contains content on China's relations with Nepal. It also has sections on the demobilized soldiers, business and commerce, coal production, forestry, ideological and political education, and the 1956 natural science awards.

This issue features another report on the Bandung Conference and discusses the British-Hong Kong takeover of Chinese aviation property. Other sections discuss the transfer of rural land and deed taxes, coal mining, and healthcare.