叶剑英在中国南方国统区的抗日统战工作成功经验,对我们在新时期开展统战工作具有深刻的启示。抗战期间,叶剑英是中共中央长江局、中共中央南方局的领导成员之一,对外身份是第十八集团军(即八路军)参谋长。这一时期,叶剑英主要活动地点在中国的南方,他的身影活跃于香港、广州、南京、武汉、长沙、衡阳、桂林、重庆等地。作为周恩来的得力助手,叶剑英在南方国统区从事了四年之久的统战工作,他以特有的胆识、才智和高超的斗争艺术,积极宣 Ye Jianying’s successful experience in the anti-Japanese united front work in the Kuomintang-controlled area in southern China profoundly inspired us in carrying out the united front work in the new era. During the war, Ye Jianying was one of the leading members of the Changjiang Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the southern bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. His foreign identity was the chief of staff of the 18th Army (ie the Eighth Route Army). During this period, Ye Jianying’s main activity place was in the south of China. His figure was active in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Wuhan, Changsha, Hengyang, Guilin and Chongqing. As Zhou Enlai’s right-hand man, Ye Jianying has been engaged in the four-year-long united front work in the southern Kuomintang area. With his unique courage, intelligence and superb art of struggle, he actively announced