Inscription for the Second Anniversary of the Founding of the Yan’an Communications Materials Factory[1]

(July 1940)

Develop creativity, and any difficulty can be overcome. The self-manufacture of communications materials is proof of this.

[1] In July 1940, on the occasion of the second anniversary of the founding of the Yan’an Communications Materials Factory, it was a period of extreme difficulty in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. To encourage the workers to overcome difficulties and strive for production, Mao Zedong personally wrote an inscription for the Communications Materials Factory.

Inscription by Mao Zedong for the second anniversary of the founding of the Yan’an Communications Materials Factory.