The first people's commune in China 1, 958, 1 In July, Red Flag magazine published the article "Brand-new Society, Brand-new People" written by Chen Boda, proposing that "cooperatives should be turned into grass-roots organizational units where agricultural cooperation and industrial cooperation coexist, and in fact they are people's communes combining agriculture and industry". Then the fourth issue of Red Flag magazine published the article "Under the Banner of Comrade Mao Zedong" written by Chen Boda, and explicitly quoted Chairman Mao's instructions: "Comrade Mao Zedong said that our direction is to gradually and orderly form industry (industry), agriculture (agriculture), commerce (commerce), learning (culture and education) and soldiers (militia, that is, the armed forces of the whole people) into a big commune.