Reply to the Provisional People's Government of Xinjiang

October 21, 1949.

[Source: People' Daily, October 21, 1949.]

To Chairman Burhan and through him to all committee members of the Provisional People's Government of Xinjiang Province:

Thank you for your message of congratulations. We hope that you will unite as one with the People's Liberation Army and the people of all nationalities of Xinjiang in carrying out the Common Program and in striving for the building of a new Xinjiang.

(Signed and dated)

Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung