Telegram Approving the Invitation of Burhan to Jiuquan for Talks

(October 11, 1949)

Comrade Dehuai:

Your telegram of the 9th at 9:00 a.m. received. I approve your inviting Burhan to Jiuquan for talks.

Burhan, then Chairman of the Provisional People’s Government of Xinjiang Province.

Mao Zedong
11th, 2:00 a.m.

Dehuai, i.e., Peng Dehuai, then First Secretary of the Northwest Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Commander and Political Commissar of the First Field Army of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.

Inscribing the Masthead for *Shanxi Daily*

(October 11, 1949)

Shanxi Daily
The masthead first inscribed by Mao Zedong for *Shanxi Daily*.

During the War of Liberation, while the PLA was attacking Taiyuan, preparations for founding *Shanxi Daily* were underway—the North China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee assigned the Propaganda Department of the North China Bureau and the North China People’s...