The Whole Nation Joins Forces: Building a Broad United Front and Mao Zedong's On Protracted War

From December 17 to 25, 1935, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a Politburo meeting in Wayaobao, Anding County, Shaanxi, known as the Wayaobao Conference. Those who attended or sat in on the meeting included Mao Zedong, Zhang Wentian, Zhou Enlai, Bogu, Li Weihan, Wang Jiaxiang, Liu Shaoqi, Deng Fa, Kaifeng, Zhang Hao, Deng Yingchao, Wu Liangping, and Guo Hongtao, among others. Zhang Wentian chaired the meeting. The participants focused on discussing the national political situation, the Party's strategic line, and military strategy. They established a new policy of building an anti-Japanese national united front, and accordingly adjusted various specific policies. The conference formally established, in theory and policy, the general line of the Communist Party of China on building an anti-Japanese national united front...