To Zhou Enlai and Others[1]

(July 8, 1946)

Regarding the Fifth Division, demand that the other side cease pursuit and cease encirclement and suppression; leading officials in all localities should not go out to conduct negotiations.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram drafted by Mao Zedong for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to Zhou Enlai, with Ye Jianying also informed.