Mao Zedong has always admired Liu Bocheng and protected Liu Bocheng on special occasions.
1958, Liu Bocheng was greatly impacted in the military's "anti-doctrination". On June 29, Mao Zedong presided over a symposium on the group leader of the enlarged meeting of the Military Commission.
At the meeting, Mao Zedong said: This meeting was mainly about defeating the slave ideas, burying the dogmatism , making a big splash in the way of rectification, breaking superstitions, improving thoughts, and learning experiences and lessons. It is mainly about educating the whole party and the whole army and uniting the whole party and the whole army.

Regarding the issues of Comrade Liu Bocheng and Comrade Xiao Ke, Peng Dehuai's secretary Wang Yazhi later recalled:
"Mao Zedong said: Xiao Ke not only has dogmatism, but also has bourgeois thoughts, warlordism, and feudalism. Comrade Liu Bocheng is a very old comrade in the party. He is basically good and capable, and has done a lot of work, mainly because he did not break superstition and feel inferior. Both ends did not do well. One end was him. When he arrived in the Central Soviet Area, he did not do it well. One end was that he did not do it well in the Military Academy after the victory of the revolution. The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation were both good. During the period, he worked well and worked very hard. So the two ends were short and the middle was long; the two ends were small and the middle was large. Liu had to rest well and not attend the meeting for a review and show his attitude. Xiao Ke had to speak for a review. Xiao Ke's mistake was serious. "

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