Zhang Zhizhong
Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the KMT party, had been sending invitations for the CCP to join Chiang in Chongqing to initiate conversations between the two major parties after the Japanese surrender on August 14, 1945. Mao Zedong, after being pressured by the Soviets, finally accepted and arrived in Chongqing with the U.S Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley and Zhang Zhizhong in late August.