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PUBLICATION NOTE

Comrade Zhou Enlai 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 long course
of China’s democratic revolution, socialist revolution and socialist
construction, he applied the universal truth of Marxism to solving
China’s practical problems in many fields, such as to building the
Party, political power and the army, work in the enemy-occupied areas
and in our own base areas, united front and diplomatic work, and
economic and cultural work. He 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 and the history of the Chinese revolution,
we have edited and are now publishing the Selected Works of Zhou
Enlai, which consist of two volumes. The first volume includes works
before and the second those after the founding of the People’s Republic
of China.
Comrade Zhou Enlai wrote many articles, documents, letters and
telegrams and made numerous important speeches. However, under
the difficult conditions prevailing in wartime, many of these were
lost. We have tried our best to collect those writings and speeches
which are still extant. We include in these volumes the most important
ones, many of which have not been published before.
Writings which were published during Comrade Zhou Enlai’s
lifetime 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
editorial note is placed at the bottom of the page on which an article
begins, while the explanatory notes come at the end of each volume.

Editorial Committee on Party
Literature, Central Committee of the
Communist Party of China
June 24, 1980

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