Telegram on the Draft Conclusions at the Senior Cadres’ Conference [1]
(January 23, 1954)

Comrade Dehuai:

I agree in principle with your draft conclusions at the Party’s senior cadres’ conference of the military system. You may proceed to deliver it as it is, and after the conference it shall be discussed and revised by the Secretariat before being printed and distributed.

Mao Zedong
January 23, 1954

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[1] Refers to the draft conclusions by Peng Dehuai, Vice Chairman of the People’s Revolutionary Military Commission, at the National Military System Party Senior Cadres’ Conference held from December 7, 1953, to January 26, 1954. It mainly covered five points: 1. On the gains of the conference; 2. On the issues of regularization and modernization; 3. On the issue of learning from Soviet experience and carrying forward our army’s glorious traditions; 4. On the issue of organizational establishment; 5. On the issue of strengthening unity and improving leadership.