Central China Bureau:
On how to extend guerrilla warfare to the areas around Shanghai and Hangzhou, and to both sides of the Shanghai-Nanjing railway line as well as the Shanghai-Hangzhou railway line, so that both Shanghai and Hangzhou will be tightly surrounded by our guerrilla warfare, in order to intensify our work in these big cities and prepare to take them over, and on how to organize to the greatest possible extent the sailors along the coast, the sailors on the Yangzi River between Wusong and Shashi, and the sailors on the small rivers on both sides of the Yangzi River so that they will cooperate in taking over the big cities in the future: Please study these two matters and assign specific tasks to the local Party committees and the armed forces on the basis of section and district, and work diligently to fulfill them.
Mao [Zedong], Liu [Shaoqi], Chen [Yi]
Our source for this document is Mao Zedong junshi wenji, Vol. 2, p. 728, where it is reproduced from Mao Zedong’s handwritten manuscript preserved in the Central Archives.