Telegram to Zhou Enlai[1]

(April 1, 1941)

Li Xiannian’s forces are of immense strategic significance. All Party and non-Party cadres who should be evacuated from the offices, the Xinhua Daily, and from Chongqing, Guilin, Guiyang, and other places must be sent by every possible means to Li Xiannian’s location.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram drafted by Mao Zedong for the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to Zhou Enlai.