To Comrade Ye Jianying [1], with notification to Fang Fang [2] and Deng and Tan [3]: (1) Your departure for Guangxi on November 21 is most appropriate. (2) Guangdong must swiftly and extensively launch land reform work. Please inform us of your plans. (3) Once land reform is completed in Guangdong and banditry eradicated in Guangxi, any invasion by Chiang Kai-shek will be easily repelled. (4) You must coordinate the efforts of Guangdong and Guangxi, treating them as a unified front against imperialism and a potential Kuomintang invasion, rather than focusing solely on one province. Mao Zedong November 17 Printed from the manuscript. Notes [1] Ye Jianying was then First Secretary of the CPC South China Sub-Bureau and Commander and Political Commissar of the Guangdong Military Region of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. [2] Fang Fang was then Third Secretary of the CPC South China Sub-Bureau. [3] Deng refers to Deng Zihui, then Third Secretary of the CPC Central-South Bureau and Second Political Commissar of the Central-South Military Region. Tan refers to Tan Zheng, then a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central-South Bureau and Third Political Commissar of the Central-South Military Region. 6£¶

Telegram Concerning Work Arrangements and Troop Deployment in South China (November 17, 1950)