Reply to the Central China Bureau[1]

(June 24, 1949)

Your opinions are correct. You may proceed to deploy urban and rural work according to the three steps you have designed. Doing so does not contravene the Second Plenary Session but is precisely the correct implementation of its general policy.

[1] This is the main content of a telegram drafted by Mao Zedong for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in reply to the Central China Bureau, with copies to the East China Bureau, the Second Field Army, and the Northwest Bureau.