Instructions for Troops in All Border
Regions to Study the “Resolution of the
Ninth Party Congress of the Fourth Red
Army”
(January 23, 1942)
Comrades Tan Zheng and Mo Wenhua:1
Print several thousand more copies of the Resolution of the Ninth Congress of the
Fourth Army and distribute them to the troops at headquarters and the troops in
northwestern Shanxi. Deliver them down to the level of company commander,
one copy to each person. Also, issue a notice telling them to treat it as study
material which they must read well. (Cadres of all levels must read it well.)2
Mao Zedong
Notes
This note by Mao was published in Jiefang ribao on April 15, 1942, under the title that appears above. Our
source is Zhonggong zhongyang wenxian yanjiushi, ed., Mao Zedong shuxin xuanji (Beijing: Renmin
chubanshe, 1983), p. 192; the text is also reproduced in Mao Zedong ji. Bujuan, Vol. 7, p. 69.
1. Tan Zheng (1906–1988) was at this time deputy commissar and head of the Political Department of the
Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia-Shanxi-Suiyuan Coalition Defense Army. Mo Wenhua (1910–2000) was deputy
director of the Political Department of the Eighth Route Army.

2. It is worth noting that Mao himself was the author of this resolution; he was thus instructing the army
to study his own writings.