(10th day of the Lunar New Year), March 20, 1948, Mao Zedong predicted that in 1949 the establishment of the Central People's Government.


Mao Zedong to the North China Liberated Area ferry
1948, the CPC Central Committee issued a briefing on the situation ", drafted by Mao Zedong, Mao Zedong's prophecy, the timing of the establishment of the Central People's Government about in 1949. Our approach is to proceed step by step, and does not seek quick impact, but only average about every two months to wipe out the enemy's regular army eight brigades, about the elimination of the 100 Brigade of the KMT army a year, about five years time (counting from July 1946) to eliminate the Kuomintang army possibility.