在伟大的抗日战争中,周恩来同志以国民政府军委会政治部副主任的身份,于1939年3月来浙江视察,称誉浙江为“东南抗日的先锋”(注)。周恩来同志所以作此评价,除因为浙江地处长江三角洲和南京、上海侧翼,战略地位重要以外,还因为抗日民族统一战线在浙江较早形成,且收到较好的成效; In the Great War of Resistance Against Japan, Comrade Zhou Enlai, in his capacity as the deputy director of the Political Department of the National Government Military Commission, visited Zhejiang in March 1939 and praised Zhejiang as the “vanguard of the Southeast Anti-Japanese War.” Comrade Zhou Enlai made this evaluation. Except for the fact that Zhejiang is strategically located in the Yangtze River Delta, Nanjing and Shanghai flanks, Zhejiang also formed earlier and achieved better results in Zhejiang.