Inscription for the Industrial Exhibition of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region

(April 1939)

The proletariat is the vanguard in resisting Japan; it must struggle to persevere in the War of Resistance to the end and to build a new China.

Inscription for the Industrial Exhibition of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region

Chairman Mao

We, the vanguard, must first *persevere
in the War of Resistance to the end, and build
a new China

Inscription by Mao Zedong for the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Industrial Exhibition.