Agree to the Merger of the First Field Army and the Northwest Military Region and Other Matters [I]

(November 30, 1949)

Northwest Bureau, First Field Army Front Committee, and for the information of all Central Bureaus, Sub-bureaus, and Front Committees:

Your telegram of November 24 [2] has been received. We agree to the resolution of the enlarged meeting of the Northwest Bureau [3] that the First Field Army and the Northwest Military Region be merged, with Peng Dehuai concurrently serving as commander of the military region, Xi Zhongxun as political commissar of the military region, Zhang Zongxun concurrently serving as deputy commander of the military region, and Gan Siqi as deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department of the military region. The Second Corps shall concurrently serve as the Gansu Military Region, merging with the original Gansu Military Region, with Xu Guangda concurrently serving as commander of the military region and Xu Guozhen, the original commander of the Gansu Military Region, as deputy commander. The Nineteenth Corps shall concurrently serve as the Shaanxi Military Region, with the corps leaders concurrently serving as the leaders of the military region.

Central Committee and Central Military Commission
November 30