江苏中医编辑同志: 当祖国社会主义建设事业飞跃发展,工农业生产不断创造奇迹,广大人民群众的“自愿的”、“无定额的”、“不计较报酬”的共产主义劳动态度普遍发展的今天,我们觉得省级新闻、出版机关举行座谈会,决定降低现行稿费标准,是完全合理的和必要的。我们衷心拥护这个决定。我们认为:稿费制度确是资产阶级法权残余的表现之一。尤其是过高的稿费,常使资产阶级思想残余比较浓厚的个别作家,生活上脱离了群众,写稿单纯是为了稿费,形成了浓厚的名利观点。这种情况,对于知识分子的思 Comrade Jiang Zemin, an editor of traditional Chinese medicine in Jiangsu Province: Today when the cause of socialist construction leaps and bounds, the industrial and agricultural production continue to create miracles, and the general public’s “voluntary”, “non-quota” and “pay-for-no-pay” communist labor attitudes have developed universally , We think it is perfectly reasonable and necessary that the provincial-level news and publication authorities hold forums and decide to lower the current standard rates. We wholeheartedly support this decision. We think that the royalty system is indeed one of the manifestations of remnants of bourgeois law. In particular, excessive royalties, individual writers who often left a deep remnants of bourgeois ideology, were detached from the masses in their lives and their contributions were made solely for royalties and formed a strong viewpoint of fame and wealth. This situation, for the intellectual thinking