Reply to Comrade Hoxha\[1]
(October 26, 1949)
Comrade Enver Hoxha, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Albania:
My profound gratitude for your congratulations to the People's Republic of China. I hereby wish that the friendship between the Chinese people and the Albanian people will grow ever closer. I am confident that the heroic Albanian people, advancing in the correct direction under your leadership, will surely be able to join with the people of the whole world, overcome the threats of imperialism and Tito's counter-revolutionary clique, and achieve their own goals.

Mao Zedong
Chairman of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China
\[1]
On the occasion of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Comrade Hoxha sent a telegram of congratulations. This is Mao Zedong's reply.