July 1, 1958 (May 15), the Reform Movement, the "red flag" for the first time put forward the name of the "people's communes". Hunan Ningxiang County people's communes,


inaugural meeting of
1958, 1, 3 "Red Flag" magazine "The new social, new people," proposed "a co-operative into the primary organizational unit of an existing agricultural cooperation have industrial cooperation, actually is a combination of agriculture and industry people's communes". This is the first time in the press mentioned the name of the "people's communes". Then, in the July 16 Section 4 of the "Red Flag" magazine "under the banner of Comrade Mao Zedong," a paper also pointed out that: "Comrade Mao Zedong said, our direction, should gradually order to work (industrial), agriculture (agricultural ), business (exchange), school (cultural education), soldiers (militia, the whole people, armed) is composed of a large commune, which constitute the basic unit of our society. , Industry, agriculture, transport the material life of the people in this commune inside; cultural education to reflect this material life and spiritual life; system of exploitation of man by man of the people all over the world have not wipe out this whole people armed is completely necessary. "