Strive to Quickly Establish Relations with Liu Xiang[1]

(October 1, 1936)

If Liu Xiang’s representative is in Tianjin, he should be asked to stay and wait for the Central Committee’s representative to go to Sichuan together. If the representative requests to leave Tianjin, a letter of introduction and various connections should be obtained from him.

[1] This is the main content of Mao Zedong’s telegram to Liu Shaoqi. Liu Xiang was then serving as the Chairman of the Kuomintang Sichuan Province and the Commander-in-Chief of the Kuomintang Army’s “Bandit Suppression” in Sichuan.