Telegram to the USSR
(February 10, 1953)

. RMRB (Feb, 14, 1953), 1. Other Chinese Text: XHYB, 3 (Mar. 25,
1953). 38. Available English Translations: NCNA, Daily Bulletin, 730 (Feb.
3}, 1953), 1; FBIS, Daily Report (Feb. 16, 1953), AA24; CDSP, V:7 (Mar.
og, 1953), 15.

Charmin,
‘The Council of Ministers,
‘The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Comrade Stalin:

On behalf of the Chinese people, the government of the People's Republic

: of China, and on my own behalf, I express sincere gratitude and warm con-

gratulations to the great Soviet people, the government of the Soviet Union,

and to you on the occasion of the third anniversary of the signing of the Sino-
Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance. '

In the past three years, the relations of close friendship and cooperation
between the two great allies, China and the Soviet Union, have attained great
consolidation and development. The truly selfless assistance that the government and people of the Soviet Union have given New China has not only
‘accelerated China’s economic recovery and development but also will have
great significance for the realization of the First Five-Year Plan in China's
large-scale national construction,”

May the great indestructible friendship between the Soviet Union and
China in opposing new aggressive plots of the imperialists and in the task of
Safeguarding peace in the Far East and the world become more consolidated
and developed with each passing day.

igned as Chairman of CPG of PRC. dated, in Beijing)

Notes

y See tout Jan. 2, 1950, note 1,
br First Five-Year Plan (FYP) covered the period 1953-57, On December 24, 1952, at the
Five. iT meeting of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC, Zhou Enlai declared that *“the First
pa Y2" Plan begins in 1953." The main principles and goals were discussed and published in
” On Sept, 6, 1953. However, the draft af the plan was not finalized until February 1955, It
‘ y adopted at the Second Session of the First NPC jn late July 1955, For a translated ver-

loc KARA Bi


320 / MAQ ZEDONG

sion of the Pian see First Five Year Plan for the Develiupment of the National Eonar,
People’s Republic of Ching (Foreign Languages Press, 1955), and for a aimmury see Lj §
report fo the Second Session of the First NPC, reprinted in R. Howie and J. Fairtank (jog
42-9)