The Wilson operator expansion is generalized to inclusive particle production in e +e − annihilation. This turns out to be possible at the price of doubling the number of quantum quark and gluon fields in a similar fashion that gives rise to the Keldysh technique for nonequilibrium processes. Well-known results on the leading logarithmic contributions to inclusive production are reproduced as the one-loop evolution of the string operator of the leading twist. The general structure of the power corrections 1 Q 2 is outlined.