Letter to the Delegation of the USSR
(October 12, 1954)

Source: RMRB (Oct. 13, 1954), 1. Other Chinese Text; XHYB, 10 (Oct. 28,

1954), 35. Available English Translations: NCNA, Daily News Release (Oct.
13, 1954), 3; FBIS, Daily Report (Oct. 13, 1954), AAA 4.

The delegation of the government of the USSR to the celebration of the fifth anniver-

sary of the founding of the PRC arrived in China on September 29, 1954, and left

hina on October 13. A communiqué and a set of attending agreements were jointly

ra hy the Chinese government und the Soviet delegation headed by Khrushchev on
42:

Dear Comrade Khrushchev and the Delegation of the Government of the
Viet Union:
The letter of October 5, 1954. from the delegation of the government of the
Viet Union has been received.
On behalf of the government of the People's Republic of China and the Chi-
Nee people [ sincerely express our gratitude to the government of the Soviet
i Hion for the gift made to us by the government of the Union of Soviet Social-
M Republics of eighty-three pieces of machine tools and agricultural machinhow on display in Beijing at the exhibition of the achievements in economic and cultural construction of the Soviet Union,’ The Chinese peop
this generous gift as a concrete expression of the intimate friendship «
people of the Soviet Union toward the Chinese people.

Mao Zedong

October 12, 1954

Beijing

Note

|. An exhibition of the Soviet Union's achievements in ecanomic and cultural coms
was held beginning October 2, 1954, in the westem sector of Beijing, Mao and ou Ohi
leaders visited the exhibition on October 25.