Speech While Visiting the Industrial and Agricultural Exhibition[1]

(December 1943)

As long as we sum up our experience and lessons, whether in agriculture, in industry, or in fighting, new victories can be constantly won. For there is one thing: the poor people under heaven want to make revolution, and this is the main reason we win victories.

[1] The Exhibition of Industrial and Agricultural Production in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region was sponsored by the Border Region government to review the large-scale production by the army and the people. Mao Zedong visited the industrial and agricultural exhibition for three consecutive days. This is part of a speech made by Mao Zedong when he visited the industrial section of the exhibition and saw the woolen blankets and towels produced by production cooperatives at all levels in various parts of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, especially the three products that embody the spirit of arduous struggle and self-reliance of the people of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region: Fengzu brand matches, Xinhua soap, and Malan paper.