读了白志明同志在党的八次代表大会上的发言,不能不有所感触。从一九三八年到一九四六年,在延安整整住了八年,延安差不多已经成为我的第二故乡,不,我对故乡的印象远远没有像延安那样深刻。在那里,受党的领导、培养、教育和洗礼,使我成为伟大战斗队伍里的一员。白志明同志发言中所介绍的情况,在我的意料之中,却也在意料之外。说在意料之中,那就是,在这十一年中(从七大到八大)经过两次巨大的变革,完成了人民民主革命,在 After reading Comrade Bai Zhiming’s speeches at the party’s eight congresses, we can not help feeling anything. From 1938 to 1946, having lived in Yan’an for eight years, Yenan almost became my second hometown. No, my impression of my hometown is far from being as profound as that of Yan’an. There, under the leadership of the party, training, education and baptism, I became a member of the great combat team. The situations described by Comrade Bai Zhiming in my speech are unexpected. To be sure, that is, after eleven years (from the seventh to the eighth), after two gigantic changes, the people’s democratic revolution was completed and the