Concentrate All Efforts on Training and Consolidating the Troops[1]

(September 2, 1940)

We should concentrate all efforts on training and consolidating the troops. Prepare the conditions for independently striking at the attackers. And training and consolidating the troops is the first condition.

[1] This is the main content of Mao Zedong’s telegram to Liu Shaoqi and others on the issue of training and consolidating the troops.