Decision by the Central Executive Committee of
the Chinese Soviet Republic
(January 1934)
The Central Executive Committee of the Chinese Soviet Republic completely agrees
with Comrade Zhang Wentian's report on the foreign policy of the soviets. It approves all the steps taken toward the Nineteenth Route Army of Fujian and the
People's Revolutionary Government of Fujian by the presidium of the previous
Central Executive Committee and by the Council of People's Commissars. It has
also approved the issuance of the following three important documents. 1
Chairman of the Central
Executive Committee of the
Mao Zedong
Vice-Chairmen
Xiang Ying
Zhang Guotao
January [ ]. 1934
This document was first published in Hongse Zhonghua, no. 149, February 14,
1934. We have translated it from Mao Zedongji, Vol. 4, p. 209, which reproduces this
version.
I. The items in question were: "Preliminary Agreement on Opposing Japan and Chiang
[Kaishek]," October 26, 1933; "First Telegram from the Interim Central Government of
the Chinese Soviet Republic to the People's Revolutionary Government of Fujian and the
Nineteenth Route Army," December 20, 1933; and "Second Telegram from the Interim
Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic to the People's Revolutionary Government of Fujian and the People's Revolutionary Army," January 13, 1934. The first of
these three documents was not negotiated or signed by Mao., and is therefore not included
in this volume. It can be found in Saich, Rise to Power, pp. 605-6. The other two texts are
translated above.
2. The date is left blank in the text as published in Hongse Zhonghua.