To the Central China Bureau[1]

(August 9, 1942)

The restoration of the New Fourth Army designation or its incorporation into the Eighth Route Army as a single army has not yet reached the stage for concrete negotiations with the Kuomintang at present. You need not raise this demand for the time being.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram to the Central China Bureau drafted by Mao Zedong for the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.