The Current Policy for Developments
in the Northeast1
(October 19, 1945)
Our Party’s basic orientation is to concentrate our main forces on the Jinzhou-
Yingkou-Shenyang line and our secondary forces on the Zhuanghe-Andong line,
resolutely rebuff the landing of Chiang’s army, and annihilate all of its possible
attacks. First of all, defend Liaoning and Andong,2 and then control the entire
Northeast. This marks a change in our former orientation of dispersion.
Our source for this text is Mao Zedong junshi wenji, Vol. 3, p. 64, where it is reproduced
1.  Mao Zedong added this paragraph to a telegram that the Central Committee of the
Chinese Communist Party sent to the Central Committee’s Northeast Bureau.
2.  Andong was the name of a province that the Guomindang government had just created out of the eastern portion of Liaoning and the southwestern portion of Jilin.
DOI:  10.4324/9781315719511-50

from Mao’s handwritten manuscript preserved in the Central Archives.