Comrade Enlai and Jianying:

The work in the Northern Jiangsu base area has a major political impact on the whole country, and a correct policy toward the national bourgeoisie has become one of the central issues in our effort to establish Northern Jiangsu as a model anti-Japanese base area. If we can win over the national bourgeoisie with a correct policy, enabling them to cooperate with us in the anti-Japanese and democratic aspects and to remain neutral in the struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, this will not only be of great help in isolating the big bourgeoisie but will also allow our new-democratic policies to begin to be concretely realized in a region that has drawn nationwide attention, which will be helpful to the entire revolutionary process at the present stage. Therefore, in addition to contacting members of the Life Education Society and encouraging them to go to Northern Jiangsu (this being the main aspect), please also carry out liaison and winning-over work toward representatives of the national bourgeoisie of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, such as Huang Yanpei, Jiang Wenyu, Zhang Yilin, and Chu Fucheng. Explain to them the truth about the Northern Jiangsu Incident, explain our various policies in Northern Jiangsu, solicit their opinions on the Northern Jiangsu issue, invite them to send people or make introductions to go to Northern Jiangsu to undertake educational and cultural undertakings and to invest in and establish industrial enterprises, and explain that we welcome them to send people or make introductions to participate in the work of the political power and the organs of public opinion in Northern Jiangsu, so that through them we may expand the scope of our efforts to win over the national capitalists of Jiangsu and Zhejiang and help us consolidate the Northern Jiangsu base area.

Mao Zedong