Always Keep to the Style of Plain Living and Hard Struggle

#PUBLICATION NOTE

This edition of Always Keep to the Style of Plain Living and Hard Struggle has been prepared and revised for digital publication by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism under the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Switzerland on the basis of the following edition: Always Keep to the Style of Plain Living and Hard Struggle, in the Selected Works of Mao Zedong, First English Edition, Vol. 5, Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 1977.

#INTRODUCTION NOTE

This is a telegram from Comrade Mao Zedong in Beijing, China to comrades in Yan'an and compatriots in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region dated the 26th of October, 1949. It was first published in the Renmin Ribao (27th of October, 1949).

#Workers and oppressed people of the world, unite!

#ALWAYS KEEP TO THE STYLE OF PLAIN LIVING AND HARD STRUGGLE

#TELEGRAM TO COMRADES IN YAN'AN AND COMPATRIOTS IN THE SHAANXI-GANSU-NINGXIA BORDER REGION

#Mao Zedong

#26th of October, 1949

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#To Comrades in Yan'an and Compatriots in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region

I am very happy and grateful to receive your message of greetings. From 1936 to '48, Yan'an and the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region were the seat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the general rear area of the Chinese people's struggle for liberation. The people of Yan'an and the Border Region have made great contributions to the whole nation. I wish you continued unity, speedy recovery from the wounds of war, and progress in your economic and cultural construction. And I hope that the revolutionary personnel of the whole country will always keep to the style of plain living and hard struggle maintained for more than a decade by the working personnel in Yan'an and the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.

#Mao Zedong

#26th of October, 1949