Report on the Course of Action and Tasks[1]

(September 20, 1935)

The crisis of the nation is deepening day by day. We must continue to act and fulfill the original plan of going north to resist Japan. First, we must go to northern Shaanxi, where there is the Red Army of Liu Zhidan. The distance from our present location to the revolutionary base area in northern Shaanxi established by Liu Zhidan is no more than seven or eight hundred li. Everyone must rouse their spirits and continue the march north.

[1] This is part of a report on the course of action and tasks delivered by Mao Zedong at a meeting of cadres at and above the regimental level of the Shaanxi-Gansu Detachment.