East China Bureau, Central-South Bureau, Southwest Bureau, North China Bureau, Northeast Bureau, the Shanghai, Beijing, and Tianjin Municipal Committees, the South China Sub-bureau, and for transmission to the Party committees of all subordinate provinces, municipalities, and regions:

Before the convening of the Party's Fourth Plenary Session of the Central Committee in the spring of 1951, you are requested to responsibly and conscientiously conduct an inspection of trade union work and prepare a report for the Fourth Plenary Session. Serious shortcomings exist in the trade union work in all localities, and Party committees at all levels have generally paid very little attention, or no attention at all. This is incorrect, and this situation must be changed. The Northwest Bureau's report on trade union work of December 26 is now transmitted to you. It is hoped that you will study it, determine your own policies, and report them to the Central Committee.

Central Committee
December 30

Commander Wang Zhen:

Please have the reply letter to Tseten Punstog and Tashi Tsering forwarded by the frontline troops. Please inform the frontline troops to widely disseminate and publicize the proclamation on entering Tibet jointly issued by the Southwest Military and Administrative Committee and the Southwest Military Area Command (Xinhua News Agency, Chongqing dispatch of November 10).

Mao Zedong
December 30

Messrs. Tseten Punstog and Tashi Tsering:

Your letter has been received. I am very happy to know that you have become friends with the People's Liberation Army that has arrived in your area. The purpose of the People's Liberation Army's entry into Tibet is to help the Tibetan people free themselves from the oppression of foreign imperialism and the Jiang Jieshi reactionaries; therefore, all People's Liberation Army troops entering Tibet have become friends with the Tibetan people everywhere. The methods of the Central People's Government and the People's Liberation Army in dealing with people from all walks of life in Tibet have been explained in great detail in the joint proclamation of the Southwest Military and Administrative Committee and the Southwest Military Area Command. The frontline troops have now been ordered to provide you with a copy of this proclamation. It is hoped that you will use various methods to disseminate it and send many copies to the Lhasa area. If you have any opinions on this proclamation, please let me know. Of the five requests you have put forward, the second has already been made clear in the proclamation. Regarding the first and third, I completely agree that you two *bönpo* should conduct peace talks with the local Liberation Army officers. As for high-ranking Tibetan officials, if they wish to conduct peace talks, they can also convey their intention for talks to me through the local Liberation Army officers. Regarding the fourth, the People's Liberation Army troops entering Tibet are all supplied by the Central People's Government and will absolutely not disturb the common people. If all Tibetan officials cooperate with the Liberation Army as you have, then fewer troops can be sent in. Regarding the fifth, you can be notified in advance of the movements of the People's Liberation Army officers and soldiers, as long as it does not interfere with military secrets. This matter can be handled through consultation between the local military officers and you.

I thank you for your letter and send my greetings to you and the people of the two *bönpo*.

Mao Zedong
December 30

Comrade Kim Il Sung:

We agree to the above-mentioned grain loan measures. Please have them reviewed and approved by you and the Korean government, and issue a proclamation to announce and implement them.

Mao Zedong
December 31

Comrade Dehuai, and inform Gao:

The grain loan measures described in the telegram of 20:00 hours on December 30 are approved. The telegram has been forwarded to Comrade Kim Il Sung.

Mao Zedong
December 31

Peng, Deng, Piao, Hong, and inform the 9th Army Group:

Please ascertain and report by telegram the number of casualties and missing persons for the entire Volunteer Army from its entry into Korea for combat on October 19 until December 31, including the numbers from the two northwestern campaigns and the northeastern campaign battlefields, the numbers of those who froze to death, suffered from frostbite, died of illness, or left their units due to illness, and those killed or injured by explosions during movements, for each army and the total for the entire army.

Military Commission
December 31