PEKING: Comrade Hua Kuo-feng, First Vice-Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Premier of the State Council, delivered the memorial speech at the memorial meeting held here this afternoon [Sept 18] for Chairman Mao Tsetung. Mr Hua Kuo-feng said: … Today, representatives of the Party, Government and Army organisations, workers, peasants, soldiers and other circles are here at Tiananmen Square holding a solemn mass memorial meeting and along with the people of all nationalities throughout the country mourning with the most profound sorrow Chairman Mao Tsetung, our … beloved great leader and the great teacher of the international proletariat and the oppressed nations and … people.

A great proletarian revolutionary like Chairman Mao, who weathers all kinds of revolutionary storms, overcomes every … hardship, and … identifies himself with the workers, peasants and other labouring people and stands in the [vanguard] of the revolutionary movement to guide it … is rare indeed in the annals of the proletarian revolutionary movement. The magnificent contributions Chairman Mao made … are immortal.

Published in Dawn, September 19th, 2026