The Jin-Cha-Ji Pictorial was an exceptionally important wartime publication. It was the CCP’s first fully developed pictorial published in the border regions of North China (The CCP founded nineteen base areas and border regions combined in North China during the war years as its military bases engaged in guerrilla warfare with the Japanese.) It existed from 1942 to 1947, and published 13 issues before it merged with another Communist magazine, the Renmin huabao (The People’s Pictorial) to become the Huabei huabao (The North China Pictorial) in 1948. The Jin-Cha-Ji Pictorial was literally printed behind the Japanese lines. Its printing facility was bombed several times by the Japanese army, forcing it to move from one village to another in the mountainous areas. Despite its embattled circumstances, the pictorial functioned as the CCP’s official news agency in the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region, supplying photographs taken in the battlefield in North China to other news organizations in China and abroad. The pictorial was the main news source concerning the poorly documented war situation in North China. Although the pictorial had a small print run—1000 to 5000 copies per issue—it reached the CCP’s headquarters in Yan’an and other CCP-controlled areas in North China, as well as the Nationalist government exiled in Chongqing. Some copies smuggled out of China by sympathetic journalists and diplomats even reached the United States and other European countries.