Chairman Mao’s Telegram in Reply to
Seven Members of the People’s Political
Council Welcoming Them to Come to
Yan’an to Discuss National Affairs
(June 18, 1945)
(Liberation Daily) Seven members of the People’s Political Council, Chu Fucheng, Huang Yanpei, Leng
Yu, Wang Yunwu, Fu Sinian, Zuo Shunsheng, and Zhang Bojun,1 sent a telegram to Comrades Mao
Zedong and Zhou Enlai on June 2, expressing their hope of continuing the discussion of the problem of
domestic unity. Chairman Mao and Comrade Zhou Enlai replied via telegram on June 18, welcoming
these council members to come to Yan’an to discuss national affairs. Here is the complete text of their
telegram:
Chu Huiseng, Huang Renzhi, Leng Yuqiu, Wang Yunwu, Fu Mengzhen, Zuo
Shunsheng, and Zhang Bojun, we write for your gracious perusal.
We have had the honor of receiving your telegram. You gentlemen are greatly
concerned about unity, which wins our extreme respectful admiration. The
Guomindang authorities have refused a multiparty conference, a coalition
government, and any other preliminary steps toward democratic reform;
moreover, they are creating divisions by means of regular meetings of a People’s
Political Council which is controlled by one party, and they are preparing for the
threat of civil war; for all these reasons, the Guomindang has created and
continues to create an enormous national crisis. It greatly pains us to speak of
these things. If, because of the people’s thirst for unity and the ardent appeals of
you gentlemen, the authorities will awaken and give up their one-party
dictatorship, convene a multiparty representative meeting, discuss the
organization of a coalition government, and immediately carry out the most

pressing democratic reforms, then our Party will be delighted to discuss matters.
Please inform us if we may respectfully welcome you gentlemen in Yan’an.
Please let us know via telegram before you leave. We look forward to the honor
of seeing you and speaking with you.
Mao Zedong
Zhou Enlai
Notes
Our source for this document is Mao Zedong ji, Vol. 9, p. 289, where it is reproduced from the June 30, 1945,
issue of Jiefang ribao.
1. These seven men were all associated with China’s Democratic League. Some of the names in the
summary differ from the names in the telegram only because Mao and Zhou used the men’s familiar names,
whereas the newspaper referred to them by their better-known formal names; each surname remains the
same.