General Nie Rongzhen Succeeds as Mayor of Beiping\[1\]
(September 8, 1949)
\[Xinhua News Agency, Beiping, September 8\] General Ye Jianying, Mayor of Beiping and Director of the Beiping Military Control Commission, has been ordered to proceed to Guangdong and Guangxi for work, assuming the posts of First Secretary of the South China Sub-Bureau of the Communist Party of China (with Zhang Yunyi as Second Secretary and Fang Fang as Third Secretary), as well as Commander and concurrently Political Commissar of the Guangdong Military District. In this connection, the Chinese People’s Revolutionary Military Commission has appointed General Nie Rongzhen to succeed as Mayor of Beiping and Director of the Beiping Military Control Commission.
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This is a news item written by Mao Zedong for the Xinhua News Agency.