Comrade Xiaoping has forwarded to all comrades in the Taihang Bureau the Central Committee’s telegram to the Jicha-Jin Bureau concerning the preservation of cadres. It is presumed that your bureau has already received and reviewed it. We hope that your bureau will handle this matter in accordance with the spirit of the telegram, taking precisely the same approach: namely, to divide all cadres into two groups—those who will continue to support the struggle and those who will be retained for study—and to select 400 to 500 high- and mid-level cadres from direct-affiliated organs, Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, Party Schools, and the Taihang, Taiyue, Southern Hebei, and Hebei-Shandong-Henan regions—cadres who are capable and have promising prospects—and send them to Yan’an for training, while promoting mid- and lower-level cadres to fill their positions. Mid-level cadres in your bureau, as well as those who have made mistakes and are difficult to deal with, may also be sent, but they should not be included in the aforementioned quota. The Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee