Overcome difficulties and support Vietnam in its struggle against France
Yunnan borders Vietnam . Shortly after the founding of New China, Comrade Ho Chi Minh made a special trip to Beijing to request the Party Central Committee to assist Vietnam in its struggle against the French colonizers. At this time, the whole country is committed to healing the wounds of the war and restoring the national economy. The task is very arduous. At the same time, the central government has decided to send the Chinese People's Volunteers to North Korea to carry out the struggle to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea. Faced with many serious difficulties at home and abroad, the Central Committee of our Party, with the broad mind of proletarian internationalism , agreed to Comrade Ho Chi Minh's request and resolutely decided to provide selfless military assistance and financial and economic assistance to Vietnam. The central government appointed Comrade Luo Guibo as the liaison representative of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Comrade Chen Geng as the military adviser. Chen Geng was acquainted with Ho Chi Minh in his early years and had outstanding military command skills. Not long after he led the Fourth Corps into Yunnan, he went to Vietnam to perform a mission. He played an important role in assisting and commanding the Vietnamese People's Army in its struggle against France and completed the mission brilliantly. . In accordance with the instructions of the central government, Yunnan served as the rear of Vietnam's anti-French struggle. At that time, Vietnam set up a Vietnamese infantry school in Yunnan to train military command cadres. The principal, Li Tiexiong, and the political commissar Chen Ziping (Chen later served as Vietnam’s ambassador to China. When Chen visited Northeast China as a diplomat in the 1960s, he made a special appointment to I talked about it once).
Yunnan Province has given many kinds of help and support to this infantry school and other rear facilities in Vietnam. In October 1950, Ho Chi Minh wrote this sentence in his letter to Mao Zedong and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the successful conclusion of the Caoping Battle: "I should Pointing out the special contribution of Chen Geng, Ren Qiong, Yun Yi, Tianyou, Gui Bo, Jianying, Fangfang , Guo Qing and the consultants in the battle, "I would like to express my gratitude to Yunnan and Guangxi provinces for supporting Vietnam's anti-French struggle. the meaning of. When the land passage from Vietnam to Guangxi was opened, the central government decided to move the rear areas that were assisting Vietnam in resisting France from Yunnan to Guangxi. Comrade Liu Shaoqi even had a special talk with me to explain the intention of the central government's decision. I told Comrade Shaoqi that as long as it was beneficial to the overall situation of aiding Vietnam in the anti-French struggle, the Yunnan side had no objection and would completely obey the decision of the Central Committee.
