March 11, 1940: Mao Zedong delivered a report entitled 'Current Problems of Tactics in the Anti-Japanese United Front'

On March 11, 1940, Mao Zedong delivered a report?entitled 'Current Problems of Tactics in the Anti-Japanese United Front' at a meeting of senior cadres in Yan'an.

The report summed up experiences on united front since the start of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.

The basic condition for victory in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression is the extension and consolidation of the anti-Japanese united front. The tactics required for this purpose are to develop the progressive forces, win over the middle forces and combat the die-hard forces; these are three inseparable links, and the means to be used to unite all the anti-Japanese forces is struggle.