``Sixty Articles on the Work of the People's Communes'' is a reference to the 60-article ``Regulations on the Work in the Rural People's Communes (Draft)'' formulated by the Central Committee in March 1961. In view of the equalitarianism existing between production brigades, between production teams and between commune members, the document laid down fairly systematic stipulations for reducing the excessively large size of the communes and production brigades and teams, checking the tendency of the communes to exercise rigid control over too many activities of their subordinate units, and improving their systems of democracy and management. In May and June of the same year, the Central Committee prepared a revised draft, for discussion and trial use, in which further stipulations were made on abolishing the free supply system in the sphere of distribution and closing the public canteens. On September 27, 1962, the Tenth Plenary Session of the Party's Eighth Central Committee formally adopted this revised draft. The implementation of this 60-article document played an important part in restoring the rural economy.