Telegram Approving Peng Dehuai’s Draft Conclusions Delivered at the National Conference of Senior Party Cadres in the Military System [1] (January 23, 1954) Comrade Dehuai: In principle, I approve your draft conclusions presented at the National Conference of Senior Party Cadres in the Military System; you may proceed to deliver them as drafted. Following the conference, after discussion and revision by the Secretariat, they will be officially published. Mao Zedong January 23, 1954 Based on the telegram copy preserved in the Central Archives. Note [1] Refers to the draft conclusions delivered by Peng Dehuai, Vice Chairman of the People’s Revolutionary Military Commission, at the National Conference of Senior Party Cadres in the Military System, held from December 7, 1953, to January 26, 1954. The main points covered were: first, the outcomes of the conference; second, issues related to regularization and modernization; third, the balance between learning from the Soviet experience and upholding our army’s glorious traditions; fourth, questions concerning organizational structure and staffing; and fifth, strengthening unity and improving leadership. £´ ２