Telegram to the USSR
(October 24, 1955)

Source: FBIS, Daily Report (Oct. 26, 1955), CC 9-10.

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We have no Chinese text of this telegram: the FBIS transcript is produced here. The
telegram was addressed to Voroshilov, chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Bulganin, chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR,
and Molotov, first vice-chairman of the Council of Ministers and minister of Foreign
Affairs of the USSR. It was signed by Mao, Liu Shaoqi, and Zhou Enlai,

Your congratulations on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of the formation of the Chinese People’s Republic have inspired us and the peoples of our
country, for which we express our sincere gratitude to you and to the Soviet
people.

On the joyful occasion of our national day the Chinese people, taking stock
of all their achievements over the past 6 years, cherish a feeling of cordial
gratitude to the great Soviet Union for the tremendous help given us in all
spheres. Every achievement of the Chinese people is inseparably linked with
this help of the great Soviet Union.

On its own initiative the Soviet Union has recently taken a series of steps in
the field of foreign policy which has already resulted in a lessening of international tension. The Chinese people and the Chinese Government will give full
support to the Soviet Union in all its efforts for the sake of peace.

Long live the bulwark of peace throughout the world, the great Soviet
Union,