Ten-Point National Salvation Programme

From August 22 to 25, 1937, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held an enlarged meeting of the Politburo in Luochuan, northern Shaanxi Province, which adopted the “Ten-Point National Salvation Programme”.

The “Ten-Point National Salvation Programme” was the action program of the Communist Party of China for leading the people of China to adhere to a comprehensive and nationwide anti-war line and policy.

The main elements are: (1) Overthrow Japanese imperialism, drive the Japanese imperialists out of China, oppose all vacillation and compromise; (2) Mobilize the military strength of the whole nation, mobilize all land, sea and air forces for a nation-wide war of resistance, oppose a passive, purely defensive strategy and adopt an active, independent strategy; (3) Mobilize the people of the whole country, let all the people of the country (with the exception of the traitors) have freedom of speech, the press, assembly and association in resisting Japan and saving the nation, and the right to take up arms against the enemy; (4) Reform the government apparatus, call a national assembly which is genuinely representative of the people to adopt a genuinely democratic constitution, to decide on policies for resisting Japan and saving the nation, and to elect a government of national defense, the government of national defense shall pursue revolutionary policies for resisting Japan and saving the nation; (5) Adopt an anti-Japanese foreign policy, conclude anti-aggression alliances and anti-Japanese pacts for mutual military aid with all countries that are opposed to Japanese aggression, provided that this entails no loss of our territory or of our sovereign rights; (6) Adopt wartime financial and economic policies, encourage the use of Chinese goods and improve local products. Completely prohibit Japanese goods, suppress profiteering merchants and ban speculation and manipulation of the market; (7) Improve the people's livelihood, improve the conditions of workers, office employees and teachers, and of soldiers fighting the Japanese, abolish exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous levies, give relief to the unemployed, aid the victims of natural calamities; (8) Adopt an anti-Japanese educational policy, change the existing educational system and curriculum and put into effect a new system and curriculum aimed at resisting Japan and saving the nation; (9) Weed out traitors and pro-Japanese elements and consolidate the rear; (10) Achieve national unity against Japan, build up the Anti-Japanese National United Front of all political parties and groups, people in all walks of life and all armed forces on the basis of KMT-Communist co-operation in order to lead the War of Resistance, unite in good faith and meet the national crisis.

The “Ten-Point National Salvation Programme” is the concrete embodiment of the Communist Party of China's comprehensive anti-war line, which points the way to the victory of the Chinese national Anti-Japanese War .