Telegram to Voroshilov
(February 3, 1956)

Source: RMRB (Feb. 4, 1956), 1. Other Chinese Text: XHBYK, 5 (Mar. 6, 1956),
65. Available English Translations: NCNA, Daily Bulletin, 1490 (Feb. 6, 1956),
10; FBIS, Daily Report (Feb. 7, 1956), AAA18.


Dear Comrade K. E. Voroshilov:

On your seventy-fifth birthday, we extend our warm congratulations to you on
behalf of the government and people of the People's Republic of China.
We wholeheartedly wish you good health and a long life and hope that you will
achieve even more glorious successes in leading the people of the Soviet Union in
carrying out the great tasks of building communism and safeguarding world peace.
(Co-signed as Chairman of PRC with Liu Shaoqi as Chairman of Standing
Committee of NPC and Zhou Enlai as Premier of State Council, dated)