Telegram for the Eleventh Anniversary [I]
(September 7, 1955)

Comrade G. Damyanov, Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly of the People's Republic of Bulgaria,
Comrade V. Chervenkov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Bulgaria,
Comrade M. Neychev, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of Bulgaria:

On the occasion of the eleventh anniversary of Bulgaria's liberation from fascist enslavement, we, on behalf of the Government and people of the People's Republic of China, extend to you, and through you to the Government and people of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, our heartfelt congratulations.

The Government and people of the People's Republic of China have followed with the utmost excitement the tremendous achievements the People's Republic of Bulgaria has made over the past eleven years, under the leadership of the glorious Bulgarian Communist Party, in the cause of socialist construction. These achievements have brought the Bulgarian people an increasingly prosperous and happy life and have strengthened the forces of the peace, democracy, and socialist camp headed by the Soviet Union. We wish the fraternal Bulgarian people still greater victories in fulfilling the Second Five-Year Plan and in the cause of safeguarding peace in Europe and the world. We are deeply convinced that the fraternal friendship between China and Bulgaria will surely be further consolidated and developed as the cause of socialist construction advances in our two countries.

Mao Zedong
President of the People's Republic of China
Liu Shaoqi
Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China
Zhou Enlai
Premier of the State Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China

Beijing, September 7, 1955

[1]
This is a telegram sent by Mao Zedong, in the name of the President of the People's Republic of China, jointly with Liu Shaoqi, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and Zhou Enlai, Premier of the State Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs, to G. Damyanov, Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, V. Chervenkov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, and M. Neychev, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, congratulating Bulgaria on the eleventh anniversary of its liberation.