Chapter 8 Training a large number of ethnic minority cadres

(November 14, 1949) Comrade Dehuai[1], Northwest Bureau: (1) According to repeated reports from the Qinghai Provincial Party Committee, the remnants of the Ma[2] Bandit Party have incited the masses and organized resistance in many places.Please pay close attention to this Lanzhou Conference[3].In addition to vigorously suppressing bandits, the provincial, prefectural, and county party committees concentrate on hard work for the masses, and adhere to the policy of ethnic equality and unity in all work. Hui people and other ethnic minorities who can cooperate with us participate in government work.In the present period, a coalition government, that is, a united front government, should be organized.In this kind of cooperation, a large number of ethnic minority cadres are trained.In addition, the provincial committees of Qinghai, Gansu, Xinjiang, Ningxia, and Shaanxi, as well as all prefectural committees in places where ethnic minorities exist, should set up training classes or training schools for ethnic minorities.Please pay attention to this point. It is impossible to completely solve the ethnic problem and completely isolate the ethnic reactionaries without a large number of communist cadres from ethnic minorities. (2) Have all the comrades from the Northwest Bureau arrived in Lanzhou? When will your meeting start? There are many agendas for this meeting, and the meeting may take about a week.In the future, where the political center of the Northwest will be located, whether Xi'an or Lanzhou, will also have to be decided.Hope to inform you with the main agenda. (3) Please ask Wang Zhen [4] to report to us.

Mao Zedong November 14 Printed from manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Dehuai, that is, Peng Dehuai, was the first secretary of the Northwest Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time, the commander and political commissar of the First Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. [2] Ma, referring to Ma Bufang (1903-1975), a native of Linxia, ​​Gansu.He once served as the chief of the Northwest Military and Political Chief Office of the Kuomintang government and the chairman of the Qinghai Provincial Government.

[3] Refers to the enlarged meeting of the Northwest Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held in Lanzhou in November 1949. [4] Wang Zhen (1908-1993), born in Liuyang, Hunan.At that time, he was Secretary of the Xinjiang Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Commander and Political Commissar of the First Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.