Inscription for the Graduates of the First Class of the Pharmaceutical Training Course at the Eighth Route Army Pharmaceutical Factory
(April 1940)

To manufacture medicines to treat the wounded and not to fear blockades is one of the conditions for defeating the enemy.

Mao Zedong

The enemy’s condition:
Blockade is my joy;
To produce counter-medicines to heal the wounded, without fear—

Mao Zedong’s inscription for the graduates of the first class of the pharmaceutical training course at the Eighth Route Army Pharmaceutical Factory.