Reply to the Henan Area Party Committee Telegram[1]

(March 1, 1945)

Due to prolonged warfare and successive years of drought, all base areas in North China are experiencing financial difficulties. You must establish and adhere to the financial principle of self-reliance, and should not hope for external aid. However, the Central Committee has still decided that the various base areas in North China shall jointly assist you with ten million yuan in puppet joint currency as capital, after which you must be entirely self-sufficient.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram drafted by Mao Zedong for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in reply to the Henan Area Party Committee.