To Mr. Ahmetjan, People’s Government of the Ili Special District, Xinjiang:  Our people’s war of liberation against imperialism, feudalism, bureaucratic capitalism, and the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang headed by Chiang Kai-shek is about to achieve victory throughout China. The new Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, comprising all democratic parties and people’s organizations across the country, the field armies of the People’s Liberation Army, the various liberated areas, the ethnic minorities within China, and overseas Chinese nationals, is, after careful preparation, about to convene its plenary session in September. At this session, in addition to formulating the Organic Law of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and electing its National Committee, it will also be necessary to adopt the Organic Law of the Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China and to elect the Central People’s Government Committee.

Your years of struggle have been an integral part of the democratic revolution of all our Chinese people. With the victorious advance of the Northwest People’s Liberation War, the complete liberation of Xinjiang is now within reach. Your struggle is on the verge of achieving final success. We sincerely welcome you to send five representatives to attend the plenary session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. Should you agree, please arrive in Peiping during the first ten days of September.  This telegram is hereby transmitted, and we look forward to your reply.

Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the New Political Consultative Conference  August 18, 1949  Brother Ping  People’s Daily, August 27, 1984  “Saifxin·Aigang Gai [For a Bright Tomorrow—,”