Develop Guerrilla Warfare Around
Shanghai and Hangzhou and on Both
Sides of the Shanghai-Nanjing and
Shanghai-Hangzhou Rail Lines
(August 3, 1944)
Central China Bureau:
On how to extend guerrilla warfare to the areas around Shanghai and Hangzhou,
and to both sides of the Shanghai-Nanjing railway line as well as the Shanghai-Hangzhou railway line, so that both Shanghai and Hangzhou will be tightly
surrounded by our guerrilla warfare, in order to intensify our work in these big
cities and prepare to take them over, and on how to organize to the greatest
possible extent the sailors along the coast, the sailors on the Yangzi River
between Wusong and Shashi, and the sailors on the small rivers on both sides of
the Yangzi River so that they will cooperate in taking over the big cities in the
future: Please study these two matters and assign specific tasks to the local Party
committees and the armed forces on the basis of section and district, and work
diligently to fulfill them.
Mao [Zedong], Liu [Shaoqi], Chen [Yi]
Notes
Our source for this document is Mao Zedong junshi wenji, Vol. 2, p. 728, where it is reproduced from Mao

Zedong’s handwritten manuscript preserved in the Central Archives.