Telegram to Zhou Enlai[1]

(June 23, 1942)

Tomorrow, transmit the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’s decision on commemorating the fifth anniversary of the July 7 Incident. Upon receipt, please publish it in the *Xinhua Daily*. Yan’an has decided to hold a grand assembly to commemorate July 7, accompanied by a separate declaration and circular telegram, emphasizing unity in the War of Resistance and the postwar construction of a state based on the Three Principles of the People.

[1] This is the main content of Mao Zedong’s telegram to Zhou Enlai.