To Comrades Bo Gu and Ye Jianying

(September 22, 1937)

Now that the declaration has already been published,[2] the current negotiations that must be resolved should focus on the following three matters: (1) Issuing a common program. (2) Resolving the border region issue. (3) Distributing Liberation[3] nationwide.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram from Mao Zedong and Zhang Wentian to Bo Gu (Qin Bangxian) and Ye Jianying.

[2] On September 22, 1937, the Central News Agency of the Kuomintang published the "Declaration of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Public Announcement of KMT-CPC Cooperation," which the CPC had submitted to the KMT in July 1937.

[3] Refers to the Liberation weekly published by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Yan'an, first issued in April 1937.