sentences:  After the Lanzhou campaign, the airstrips of the Gansu corridor came under Communist control.For decades, the communists have willfully decreased their number of losses by agreeing with their nationalist adversary's claim of inflicting more than 8,700 casualties on the communists in Lanzhou Campaign.It was not until the late 1990s did the communists finally begun to admit their real loss which is higher than they had originally claimed by publicizing the Peng Dehuai's telegram to Wang Zhen on August 28, 1949, in which the real communist losses were given when Peng Dehuai asked Wang Zhen to inform He Long that the communist casualties was in fact just below 11,000.