Speech at Banquet for Voroshilov
(May 3, 1957)

Source: RMRB (May 4, 1957), 1. Other Chinese Texts: XHBYK, 109 (June 10,
1957), 10; URI (1976), pp. 175–176. Available English Translations: NCNA, Daily
News Release (May 4, 1957), 1–2; FBIS, Daily Report (May 6, 1957), AAA 3–4;
URI (1976), pp. 177–178.

For Voroshilov's visits to China see text April 15, 1957, source note. This speech was made
at a banquet given in Voroshilov's honor by Soviet Ambassador P. F. Yudin.

Dear Comrade Voroshilov,
Dear Comrade Ambassador,
Comrades, Friends:

Today, after Chairman Voroshilov and his entourage have made friendly visits
to various places in China, here we are together with them again. We feel a special
closeness and happiness on the occasion.
Chairman Voroshilov, with tremendous enthusiasm and indefatigable vigor,
visited many places in our country within about twenty days. He had intimate
meetings with our country's broad masses of workers, peasants, students, and
people of all circles and relayed to the hundreds of millions of Chinese people the
fraternal feelings of the people of the Soviet Union. All this has been a great
inspiration for the Chinese people and has left a deep, indelible impression on the
Chinese people.
In these few days, the entire world has once again seen the rock-solid unity and
close and profound friendship between the Chinese and Soviet peoples. This unity
and friendship is not only a favorable factor in our two countries' cause of socialist

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and Communist construction, but also an important part of the unity of all
socialist countries and a dependable guarantee of the causes of world peace and
human progress. The Chinese people, like the Soviet people, will continue to
exert all possible efforts to strive for the continuous consolidation and development of the relations of unity, friendship, and cooperation between our two
countries.
Comrade Voroshilov will soon conclude his friendly visit to China. On
behalf of the Chinese people, I wish to take this opportunity to express once
again our profound thanks to him, and to ask him sincerely to convey the most
heartfelt friendship of the Chinese people to all the people of the Soviet
Union.
Let us drink,
To the ever-growing prosperity, wealth, and strength of our great ally, the Soviet
Union,
To new achievements made by the great Soviet people in the causes of building
communism and defending world peace,
To the health of the leading comrades of the Soviet government and the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union,
To the unbreakable, fraternal friendship between the Chinese and Soviet peoples,
To the great unity of the socialist family headed by the Soviet Union,
To world peace,
To Comrade Voroshilov’s health and long life,
Bottoms up!