Comrades Tan Zheng and Mo Wenhua:

Print several thousand additional copies of the Resolution of the Ninth Congress of the Fourth Army and distribute them to the garrison troops and the units in northwestern Shanxi, down to the company commanders, one copy per person. Also issue a notice instructing them to use it as teaching material and study it thoroughly. (Cadres at all levels must study it thoroughly.)

Mao Zedong
January 23

[1] Tan Zheng and Mo Wenhua were then serving respectively as Deputy Director of the General Political Department of the Central Military Commission of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Political Department of the Eighth Route Army Rear Area Garrison Corps.
[2] The Resolution of the Ninth Congress of the Fourth Army refers to the resolution adopted at the Ninth Congress of the Fourth Army of the Red Army of the Communist Party of China in December 1929, also known as the Gutian Congress Resolution.
[3] The garrison troops refer to the units under the Eighth Route Army Rear Area Garrison Corps.
[4] On April 6, 1942, Xiao Jinguang, Commander of the Eighth Route Army Rear Area Garrison Corps, and Mo Wenhua, Director of its Political Department, issued a directive to all units. The directive pointed out that the "Resolution of the Ninth Congress of the Fourth Army of the Red Army of the Communist Party of China" not only had great significance and a decisive role in the building of the Chinese Red Army at that time, but still holds great practical significance for the building of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army today. The fact that our Rear Area Garrison Corps and security forces still have many shortcomings in their work, and that there still exist certain remnants of non-proletarian ideological consciousness and erroneous tendencies within the Party, is mainly due to our failure to thoroughly implement this resolution. Therefore, the garrison...

This is part of Mao Zedong's speech at a welcome party for the 717th Regiment of the 359th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army.

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Telegram to Zhou Enlai and Dong Biwu

During your mission at the trilateral meeting this time, you accomplished an important task. Once you arrived there, the diehards did not dare to come. Without fighting a battle, you won a great victory. The Border Region is a good place, but the diehards do not like this place, which is why they transferred you back from the front. When there is trouble, you fight; when there is none, you engage in production and study.