To Peng Dehuai and Others[1]

(January 12, 1942)

All base areas behind enemy lines must pay attention to methods of leadership. The most important issue in leadership methods is to utilize every possibility to conduct investigations and collect materials, to carry out in-depth study of every specific problem in the War of Resistance behind enemy lines, and to draw concrete conclusions.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram from Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Wang Jiaxiang, Tan Zheng, and Fu Zhong to Peng Dehuai and Luo Ruiqing.