To Peng Dehuai[1]

(February 28, 1943)

It is proposed that Li Yu serve as deputy political commissar of the 115th Division and the Shandong Military Region; that Luo Ronghuan serve as political commissar concurrently as commander of the Military Region and acting division commander; that Li, Luo, and Zhu Rui be the three members of the Standing Committee of the Shandong Sub-bureau of the CPC Central Committee, with Zhu Rui as secretary; and that Chen Guang be transferred to Yan’an for study.

[1] This is the main content of Mao Zedong’s telegram to Peng Dehuai concerning personnel arrangements after the merger of the Eighth Route Army’s 115th Division and the Shandong Column.