Letter to Jin Cheng[1]

(March 13, 1938)

Comrade Jin Cheng:

The Guangdong materials[2] are very good. From now on, collect more of such materials and inform me; from the accounts of people coming from outside, one should gather materials on all aspects.

Salutations!

Mao Zedong

March 13

[1] Jin Cheng (1906–1991), a native of Zhuji, Zhejiang. At the time, he served as Chief of the Communications Section of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Government.

[2] Refers to the materials compiled by Jin Cheng based on information about the Kuomintang side provided by a geologist who had come from Guangdong to Yan’an on an inspection tour.