To the Xin’an Tour Group1
(May 20, 1946)
To all comrades in the Xin’an Tour Group:
I have received your letter; thank you very much!
My wish for you is that you work hard, continue to advance, and strive for the
victory of a democratic China.
Mao Zedong
Our source for this text is Mao Zedong shuxin xuanji, p. 272, where it is reproduced
from a handwritten manuscript.
1.  The Xin’an Tour Group was a children’s and youth propaganda troupe organized
by the Chinese Communist Party out of what had been the Xin’an Elementary School
in Huai’an county, Jiangsu Province. Established in October 1935, the troupe traveled to
eighteen different localities to engage in propaganda for resisting Japan and national salvation.
DOI:  10.4324/9781315719511-150