Inscription for the First Anniversary of the War of Resistance and the Seventeenth Anniversary of the Birth of the Communist Party of China
(June 30, 1938)

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Communists should persist in the War of Resistance together with members of all parties, all factions, and all circles, strive to drive out the Japanese invaders and build a new China, and play an exemplary role in the struggle, never ceasing until the goal is achieved!

[1] In June 1938, Mao Zedong wrote this inscription for the first anniversary of the War of Resistance Against Japan and the seventeenth anniversary of the birth of the Communist Party of China. The inscription was published in the *New China News*.