THE CHINESE PEOPLE'S VOLUNTEERS
SHOULD CHERISH EVERY HILL, EVERY RIVER,
EVERY TREE AND EVERY BLADE OF
GRASS IN KOREA*
(January 19, 1951)
The Korean Workers' Party and People's Army headed by Comrade Kim
Il Sung have achieved great successes during the past five years of struggle in
Korea. Resolutely opposed to imperialism and feudalism, they have founded a
people's political regime to serve the people, formed the courageous People's
Army and established friendly relations with the Soviet Union, China and
other people's states. Now they are waging a heroic struggle against the U.S.
invaders and the Syngman Rhee bandit army. Therefore, all Chinese People's
Volunteers in Korea must conscientiously learn from the Korean comrades, and
whole-heartedly support the Korean people, the government of the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea, the Korean People's Army, the Korean Workers'
Party and Comrade Kim Il Sung, the leader of the Korean people. The Chinese
and Korean comrades should unite as closely as brothers, go through thick and
thin together, stick together in life and death and fight to the end to defeat
their common enemy. The Chinese comrades must regard Korea's cause as
their own, and the commanders and fighters must be educated to cherish every
hill, every river, every tree and every blade of grass in Korea and not take a
single needle or thread from the Korean people, just the way we think and do
in our own country. This is the political basis for victory. So long as we act
this way, final victory will be assured.
(From the original manuscript)
* This paragraph was added by Mao Zedong in looking over the draft of a report to
be delivered by Peng Dehuai, commander and political commissar of the Chinese People's
Volunteers, to a joint meeting of senior officers of Chinese and Korean armies.