Telegram in Reply to All Comrades Working at the Eighth Route Army Office in Chongqing[1]

(January 30, 1941)

Your telegram of the 27th[2] has been received, and we are greatly heartened. Hope you will strive and struggle on. The light is right ahead, and darkness will surely perish. The people of the whole country and the whole world are all supporting us.

[1] This is the main content of the telegram in reply from Mao Zedong and Zhu De to all comrades working at the Eighth Route Army Office in Chongqing.

[2] In their telegram of January 27 to Mao Zedong, Zhu De, and others, all staff members working at the Eighth Route Army Office in Chongqing stated: "We assure you that no matter how adverse the circumstances, we will still hold our posts with an indomitable spirit and struggle to our last breath for the Party's tasks."