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PUBLICATION NOTE

Comrade Liu Shaoqi was a great Marxist and proletarian revolu-
tionary and an outstanding leader of the Chinese Communist Party
and the People’s Republic of China. Throughout the course of China’s
new-democratic revolution, socialist revolution and socialist construc-
tion, he consistently adhered to the principle of integrating the univer-
sal truth of Marxism-Leninism with concrete conditions in China. He
made monumental contributions in the fields of Party building, the
united front, armed struggle, the labour movement, work in the White
areas, the establishment and building of the anti-Japanese democratic
base areas behind enemy lines, economic development, the building
of political power, culture and education, and foreign affairs. He
also made brilliant contributions to the formation and development
of Mao Zedong Thought.
To meet the needs of readers in their study of Marxism-Leninism
and Mao Zedong Thought, the history of the Chinese revolution and
construction led by the Party, and the life and thought of Comrade Liu
Shaoqi, we have compiled and are now publishing the Selected Works
of Liu Shaoqi, which consist of two volumes. The first volume in-
cludes works before and the second those after the founding of the
People’s Republic of China.
In the long years of revolutionary practice, Comrade Liu Shaoqi
wrote many articles, documents, telegrams and letters and made
numerous speeches. We include in these volumes the most important
ones, many of which are published here for the first time.
Writings which were published during Comrade Liu Shaoqi’s life-
time or which exist in manuscript are reproduced here in their original
form with a minimum of changes in language or of corrections of
errors of fact. Records of speeches have been edited. To assist our
readers, editorial and explanatory notes have been provided. Each

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