Reply to the Central Executive Committee of the
Youth League, Drafted on Behalf of the Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
(September 6, 1923)

To the Central Executive Committee of the Youth League:

We have received both your letters.
It has been resolved that your esteemed committee shall be represented at
meetings by the chairman and secretary of the committee. Please notify one of
these two persons when meetings are to be held.
As for publications, the publications department has already been instructed
to present to your esteemed committee two copies of each issue of Xiangdao,
and one copy of each issue of Qianfeng and Xin qingnian. For other titles such as
Gongren zhoukan, please have your committee arrange direct exchanges of publications.

September 6 Zhongying (C.P.)¹

2. The British and American Tobacco Company (commonly known as the B.A.T.),
founded in London in 1902, was well known in China. In 1920 the company owned
factories in Shanghai, Hankou, and Mukden, with branches in Changsha and Wuhan, and
employed around 25,000 Chinese residents.

This letter was first published in Wenwu tiandi, No. 6, 1981. Our translation is based on
this text, as reproduced in Mao Zedong ji. Bujuan, Vol. 2, p. 123.
1. For reasons of discretion, this letter was signed with two Chinese characters pronounced as shown, which are intended to suggest Zhongyang, or Central [Committee],
followed by the Roman letters C.P. for Communist Party.