October 21, 1949.

[Source: People's Daily, October 21, 1949.]


To Chairman Burhan and through him to all committee members of the Provisional
People's Government of Xinjiang Province:

Thank you for your message of congratulations. We hope that you will unite
as one with the People's Liberation Army and the people of all nationalities
of Xinjiang in carrying out the Common Program and in striving for the building
of a new Xinjiang.

(Signed and dated)

Transcription by the Maoist Documentation Project.