中央人民政府政务院今日发出了「关于购棉、储棉工作的指示」,中共中央亦为此向各级党委发出了指示。这是关系国家经济和军民生活的大事,应当引起全国人民,尤其是产棉区人民的重视。政务院这个指示和中共中央这个号召所要解决的问题,是如何使目前有存棉的棉农在公私两利的条件下把存棉售予或储存在国家委托的经济机关,以应纺织工业的急迫的需要。人民政府从来就是重视棉花增产和棉农的利益的。在实行土地改革的同时,中央人民政府对棉农采取了种种保护政策:如最低棉价的规定 The Central Government Department today issued an Instruction on Purchasing Cotton and Cotton Storage, and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued instructions to party committees at all levels. This is a major event that concerns the economy of the country and the life of the military and civilian. It should arouse the people of our country, especially the people in cotton-producing areas, to pay attention to it. The directives of the State Council and the CPC Central Committee’s question of how to solve the problem are how existing cotton-growing cotton farmers sell or store their cotton under the state’s entrusted economic organs under the conditions of both public and private interests so that the urgent need of the textile industry need. People’s government has always attached importance to the cotton yield and cotton farmers interests. While implementing the land reform, the Central People’s Government has adopted various protection policies for the cotton growers: such as the minimum cotton price