Reply to a Telegram from the Panchen Erdeni

(February 27, 1960)

Panchen Erdeni Chokyi Gyaltsen:

We are very pleased to see your telegram of February 26. On this occasion of the Iron Rat Year of the Tibetan calendar, when the Tibetan people are celebrating their own thorough overturn and liberation with elation and exultation, we extend warm congratulations to you and the Tibetan people. We wish the Tibetan people, under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party Tibet Work Committee and the Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region headed by you, still greater victories in the new year in consolidating national unity, strengthening national solidarity, thoroughly quelling the remnants of the counter-revolutionary rebellion launched by the reactionary clique of the Tibetan upper strata, carrying out democratic reform, and developing production.

Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De

February 27, 1960

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Refers to the telegram of congratulations on the Tibetan New Year sent on the 30th day of the 12th month of the Earth Boar Year of the Tibetan calendar (February 26, 1960, Gregorian calendar) by Panchen Erdeni Chokyi Gyaltsen, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and Acting Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region, to Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Zhu De, and Zhou Enlai.