Comrade Dehuai:
Military Commission Telegram Regarding Zhang Zhizhong’s [I] Trip to Lanzhou
To Peng Dehuai [2]
(November 22, 1949)
Zhang Zhizhong departed Beijing by air at 9:00 a.m. today (the 22nd) and is expected to arrive in Lanzhou around 4:00 p.m. Please make arrangements to receive him.
Military Commission
6:00 a.m., November 22
[1]
Zhang Zhizhong,
then serving as Member of the Central People’s Government and Member of the People’s Revolutionary Military Commission.
[2]
Peng Dehuai,
then serving as 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.