Chapter 60 Letter to Xiao San[1]

(February 22, 1945) Comrade Xiao San: Your "First Steps" [2], well written.Your attitude is quite different from the years when you first arrived in Yan'an. Your articles are honest, sincere, vivid and powerful.Of course, your articles were good in the past, but they are even better now. I have benefited from reading these articles. In order for comrades in literature and art work in Yan'an to participate more in mass gatherings, we must take care of Comrades Gao Gang, Jia Tuofu, Tan Zheng, Luo Mai, Li Fuchun, and Peng Zhen [3]. Let's go.Please visit them to discuss this matter, and I will tell them when I have the opportunity.This year there will be few conferences in the border region, but there will be many local conferences in Yan City, Yan'an County, and the sub-districts of Yan'an. Could you please go talk about it too?

Comrade salute! Mao Zedong February 22 According to the "Selected Letters of Mao Zedong" published by People's Publishing House in 1983. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Xiao San (1896-1983), born in Xiangxiang, Hunan.Returned to Yan'an from the Soviet Union in 1939.At that time, he was a member of the Standing Committee of the Cultural Association of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. [2] Refers to Xiao San's article "The First Step—Returning from Participating in the Frontier Council and Model Worker Conference" published in the "Liberation Daily" on February 20, 1945.

[3] Gao Gang, Secretary of the Northwest Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time.Jia Tuofu (1912-1967), a native of Shenmu, Shaanxi, was the secretary-general of the Northwest Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time.Tan Zheng (1907-1988), a native of Xiangxiang, Hunan, was the deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department of the Eighth Route Army's Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia-Shanxi-Sui Joint Defense Force.Luo Mai, that is, Li Weihan, was the Secretary-General of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Government at that time.Li Fuchun (1900-1975), born in Changsha, Hunan, served as Deputy Secretary-General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time.Peng Zhen was then acting head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee.