Mao Zedong, accompanied by Zhou Enlai and others, went to Chongqing for negotiations
A hundred years of the Communist Party of China
On the afternoon of October 10, 1945, the representatives of the Communist Party of China and the Kuomintang signed the "Minutes of the Talks between the Government and the Representatives of the Communist Party of China" in the living room of Guiyuan Garden in Chongqing, known in history as the "Double Tenth Agreement". According to the agreement, the Kuomintang government accepted the basic principle of peaceful nation-building put forward by the CPC, and the two sides also decided to convene a political consultative conference attended by representatives of all parties and non-party personages to discuss the grand plan for peaceful nation-building.
△ On October 10, 1945, representatives of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China signed the Minutes of the Talks between the Government and the Representatives of the Communist Party of China (the "Double Tenth Agreement") in Guiyuan.
Movie "Chongqing Negotiations":
Zhang Zhizhong: After all, we have completed a difficult and glorious mission, and today we are relieved.
Zhou Enlai: The terms written on paper are meaningful only if they are fulfilled with sincerity, and can they live up to the painstaking efforts of more than forty days and nights...
In August 1945, after the victory of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the voices of the people of the whole country for peace and anti-civil war were growing louder and louder. Under pressure at home and abroad, Chiang Kai-shek sent three telegrams in a row in less than a month, inviting Mao Zedong to Chongqing as soon as possible to "make a joint plan."
△ On August 28, 1945, Mao Zedong, who went to Chongqing for negotiations, bid farewell to the farewell soldiers and civilians at Yan'an Airport.
Amid the speculation and expectations of many opinions, on August 25, 1945, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the "Declaration on the Current Situation" clearly put forward the slogan of "peace, unity and democracy", and on August 28, Mao Zedong flew from Yan'an with Zhou Enlai and Wang Ruofei from Yan'an to Chongqing.
△ On August 28, 1945, Mao Zedong warmly shook hands with Zhang Lan, who came to the airport to greet him.
Zhou Zhirou: Air Force Commander Zhou Zhirou, plenipotentiary representative of the chairman of the committee, welcomed Mr. Mao to Chongqing to discuss the state of the country.
Reporter: I am Tong Xin of the Central Daily, please ask Mr. Mao, aren't you afraid of the Hongmen Banquet?
Mao Zedong: You are very young and very powerful, and when you ask such a question, you are demeaning a piece of Mr. Jiang's good intentions. In the face of forty million people, will he put on a feast? I was the first to disbelief...
The news of Mao Zedong's negotiations in Chongqing shook like thunder over the mountain city. Patriotic democrat Liu Yazi specially wrote a poem, calling Mao Zedong's action "great courage", and Mao Zedong also gave back to his old friend Liu Yazi in an old poem in northern Shaanxi, "Qinyuan Spring and Snow".
△ Mao Zedong's poem "Qinyuan Spring Snow"
The process of the Chongqing negotiations was difficult and tortuous, but during the tense negotiations, Mao Zedong also met with people from all walks of life in Chongqing and openly exchanged political views with them. Zhang Meiying, granddaughter of democrat Zhang Lan and former vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said that Mao Zedong's contacts with democratic parties during the Chongqing talks laid the foundation for the establishment of the people's democratic united front.
During the Chongqing negotiations, Mao Zedong took a group photo with Chiang Kai-shek.
Zhang Meiying: When he visited the special garden, he introduced the current situation, the CPC's views on the situation, and what the CPC wanted to achieve in the peace talks this time. After Chairman Mao left, his cousin said a word to the people of the Democratic League and the people around him, "Mao Zedong, the one who won the world."
△ In October 1945, after the Chongqing negotiations, Mao Zedong returned to Yan'an, and Zhang Lan (first from left) and Shao Lizi (second from left), Guo Moruo (third from left), Fu Xuewen (fourth from left), and Zhang Zhizhong (fifth from left) went to the airport to bid farewell.
After Mao Zedong's poem "Qinyuan Spring snow" was published in Chongqing, it caused a huge sensation. The Kuomintang organized many essay masters to create dozens of "Qinyuan Spring" lyrics, but none of them can be compared with Mao Zedong's works.
△ Chongqing Guiyuan, which was reopened after renovation
After 43 days of difficult negotiations, the two sides finally reached an agreement. Although Chiang Kai-shek tore off the mask of "peace talks" and provoked a civil war in an all-round way soon after the promulgation of the "Double Tenth Agreement," the Chongqing negotiations effectively promoted the democratic movement in the Kuomintang-ruled areas, enabling the POLITICAL propositions of the Communist Party of China on peacefully building a new China to be understood by the people of the whole country, thus opening a new chapter in the national peaceful democratic movement.
Edited by Chen Yuanyuan