Letter to Zhang Siwei[1]
(November 17, 1949)

Mr. Zhang Siwei
No. 3 Fushou Bridge, Changsha

Your telegram of weiyang[2] has been received. I deeply appreciate your kind sentiments. Hunan is in urgent need of talent, and it seems appropriate for you to work locally.

Mao Zedong
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[1] Zhang Siwei (1892–1961), a native of Shaoshan Village, Shaoshan Township, Shaoshan City, Hunan Province. During the Great Revolution, he participated in the Shaoshan peasant movement. After the founding of New China, he worked at the Hunan Provincial Company of the China Salt Industry Corporation.
[2] In the past, people often used the earthly branches to represent months and the rhyme headings to represent days in telegrams to indicate the time of transmission. Weiyang corresponds to August 7.