Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Telegram Congratulating on the Recovery of Yan’an, Addressed to Peng Dehuai and Others
(April 24, 1948)

Comrades Peng Dehuai, He Long, Lin Boqu, Xi Zhongxun, and all comrades of the Northwest People’s Liberation Army:

We celebrate your great victory in recovering Yan’an. When the Kuomintang bandit forces occupied Yan’an on March 19 last year, we asserted that this occupation would mark the defeat of the Kuomintang bandit forces and the victory of the Chinese people. All the facts over the past year and more have fully proved this assertion. Now, at the moment of recovering Yan’an, we extend our sentiments of sympathy and solicitude to our heroic Northwest People’s Liberation Army, to all the people of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, and to all the people of Yan’an. We hope you will continue your efforts and strive to wipe out all the bandit forces and liberate the entire Northwest.

Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
April 24, 1948