ABSTRACT

Special to this newspaper: The first National Salvation Congress of Young People from the Northwest officially opened on the 12th, attended by more than three hundred representatives from all over (Hebei, the Northeast, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia, and Mongolian and Muslim nationalities). The meeting place had been prepared and decorated beforehand. It was set up in the central auditorium, which was decorated brightly in a stately and magnificently manner, altogether fresh and beautiful. Meanwhile, all the streets and alleys of the city of Yan'an were adorned with colorful posters and slogans supporting the conference, so that the streets took on an entirely new look that was exciting and exhilarating!