The Major Direction of Development in
Southern China in the Future Is
Guangxi and Nanlu1
(November 14, 1944)
Comrade Lin Ping:
1. We agree with every point you made in your telegram of November 11.
2. Please pay special attention to Xijiang and quickly develop toward Guilin
and Liuzhou. This will allow you to contact units of the Hunan forces2 that are
moving southward toward Guilin (keep this a secret from outsiders). This will
make it easier to send cadres to you. Thus, you’d better send more troops and
cadres to Xijiang. Your major direction of development in the future is toward
Guangxi and Nanlu.3
3. Please ask those going to Qiongya to bring the Central Committee’s regards
to Comrade Feng Baiju4 and the entire unit, and tell them that they have two
tasks. First, to send capable units to expand toward Nanlu and to make contact
with you. Second, to occupy all of Qiongya.
4. You should set up a large school to train military, political, and local work
cadres. The term can be as short as a few weeks or as long as three to four
months. They should be trained in groups, and most of them should be sent to
Guangxi.
The Central Committee
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Notes

Our source for this document is Mao Zedong junshi wenji, Vol. 2, pp. 735–36, where it is reproduced from
Mao Zedong’s handwritten manuscript preserved in the Central Archives.

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1. This is a telegram drafted by Mao Zedong on behalf of the Central Committee to Lin Ping, the secretary
of the Guangdong Provisional Work Committee and the commissar of the Dongjing Column of the
Guangdong People’s Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Army.

2. Hunan forces refer to the First Independent Guerrilla Army of the Eighth Route Army, generally called
the South Bound Detachment.

3. Nanlu refers to the Leizhou Peninsula of Guangdong.

4. Feng Baiju (1903–1973) was at this time commander-in-chief and commissar of the Guangdong Qiongya
People’s Anti-Japanese Independent Guerrilla Column, generally known as the Qiongya Column.