SPEECH AT MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR MR LI TING-MING

25 February 1948

[Text] HSIN-HUA NEWS AGENCY, Northwest, 3 Feb--At the memorial service for
Mr Li Ting-ming, vice chairman of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Region,
Chinese Communist Party Central Committee Chairman Mao and all the
liberated areas sent eulogies and condolences.

The eulogy of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee states: "In
his work in the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Region, Mr Li Ting-ming made
beneficial contributions to the people, and the people will never forget
his merits and achievements."

Chairman Mao's eulogy reads:

In the difficult period of the national and democratic struggles of the
Chinese people, in the period when the Japanese imperialists attacked
China, in the period of the counterrevolutionary civil war launched by the
Chiang Kai-shek bandit gang aided by the American imperialists, Mr Li
Ting-ming and many enlightened gentry like him, with righteousness in their
hearts, resolutely cooperated with the Chinese Communist Party. All true
patriotic and democratic enlightened gentry who oppose imperialist aggression and Chiang Kai-shek's dictatorship, support the people's revolutionary
war, and sympathize with the elimination of feudalism and the realization
of land reform, whether in the past or at present, are a part of the
national revolutionary united front of China, and they all wish to express
their sorrow over the death of Mr Li Ting-ming.

JEN-MIN JIH-PAO, 5 March 1948