The Great Rear Area is also changing. Readers there expect authors in the revolutionary base areas to tell about the new people and the new world and not to bore them with the same old tales.

• “大后方”也是要变的，“大后方”的读者，不需要从革命根据地的作家听那些早已听厌了的老故事，他们希望革命根据地的作家告诉他们新的人物，新的世界。