The Press Office, International Department of the CPC Central Committee Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History CONTENTS Heroes from 1919 to 1949 P3-P12 Heroes from 1949 to 1978 Heroes from 1978 to 2012 P21-P28 Heroes Since 2012 P13-P20 P29-P38 The Chinese nation reveres heroism and has produced many heroes during its long history. Over past 100 years since the founding of the Communist Party of China in 1921, generations of Party members have devoted themselves to tireless hard work. Among them are many who sacrificed their lives for the Chinese revolution, many who made great contributions to society and many who were role models of selflessness. Through their firm belief, patriotism, love for the people and diligence, they exemplify the national character and provide a guiding light to lead the Chinese nation forward. 1921-2021 3 Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History Heroes From 1919-1949 Ma Benzhai Fang Zhimin Mao Zemin Wang Erzhuo Wang Jinmei Deng Zhongxia Deng Enming Wei Baqun Ye Ting Zuo Quan Liu Zhidan Liu Hulan Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History 4 1919-1949 Ji Hongchang Xiang Jingyu Jiang Zhujun He Shuheng Zhang Tailei Zhang Si-de Li Dazhao Yang Kaihui Yang Jingyu Su Zhaozheng Chen Yannian Chen Tanqiu 5 Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History Xian Xinghai Zhou Wenyong and Chen Tiejun Luo Binghui Yun Daiying Zhao Yiman Xia Minghan Qian Zhuangfei Huang Gonglue Peng Pai Peng Xuefeng Dong Cunrui Dong Zhentang Cai Hesen Qu Qiubai Liulaozhuang Company Five heroes of Mount Langya Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History 6 Li Dazhao Li Dazhao Li Dazhao in Peking University Cover of LA JEUNESSE Article written by Li Dazhao Li Dazhao cally eulogized the October beginning of 1920, Li Dazhao between Beijing, Shanghai Revolution. and other revolutionaries and Guangzhou, helping Li Dazhao was born In the process of publiciz- began to discuss the es- Sun Yat-sen re-organize the in Laoting County, Hebei ing the October Revolution, tablishment of proletarian Kuomintang and making Province in 1889. In 1913, Li changed from a patriotic political parties in China. In great contributions to the he traveled to Japan and democrat to a Marxist, and the autumn of the same year, establishment of the United studied at Waseda University then became the earliest he led the establishment of front for the first cooperation in Tokyo, and began to con- disseminator of Marxism in the early Party organizations between the Kuomintang tact with socialist thoughts China. After the May Fourth in Beijing and the Beijing and the CPC. Li also led party and Marxist theories. After Movement in 1919, he de- Socialist Youth League, and organization in the north to returning to China in 1916, voted himself more to the actively promoted the estab- cooperate with the May 30th Li Dazhao went to Peking propaganda of Marxism and lishment of nationwide Party Movement and the Northern University as a library director systematically introduced organizations. Expedition, launched anti- and professor of economics, Marxist theory. Li Dazhao After the founding of the imperialist and anti-warlord and actively participated in promoted the wide spread CPC, Li, on behalf of the CPC struggles, and made out- and became a leader in the of Marxism in China and Central Committee, led the standing contributions to New Culture Movement. Li prepared the ideological con- work in north China, publi- the victory of the Great was greatly encouraged by ditions for the founding of the cized Marxism, launched the Revolution. the victory of the October Communist Party of China. workers’ movement, and es- On April 6, 1927, Li was Revolution in Russia. He pub- Li is one of the main tablished Party organizations. arrested and imprisoned lished articles and speeches founders of the Communist From 1922 to 1924, he was in Beijing. On April 28th, Li continuously and enthusiasti- Party of China (CPC). At the entrusted by the Party to run Dazhao died at the age of 38. 7 Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History He Shuheng Building ruins of Supreme Court of Soviet Republic of China, The portrait of He Shuheng The lantern He Shuheng used where He Shuheng served as interim Chairman He Shuheng initiated the establishment 1927, a Ma Ri incident oc- Long March of the Central of Xinmin Society, and in curred in Changsha. He went Red Army, He was ordered He Shuheng, a repre- 1920 jointly initiated the es- to Shanghai to set up an un- to stay in the Central sentative of the first CPC tablishment of Hunan’s early derground printing factory Revolutionary Base and National Congress and one Communist Party organiza- for the Party and persisted persist in guerrilla warfare. of the founders of the CPC, tions. in secret struggle. In 1928, On February 24, 1935, on was born in a peasant fam- In July 1921, Mao and after the closing of the Sixth the way from Jiangxi to ily in Ningxiang City, Hunan He, as Hunan representa- National Congress of the Fujian, He died heroically in Province in 1876. In 1913, tives, went to Shanghai to CPC, He Shuheng entered the battle to break through 37-year-old He was admitted attend CPC’s First National Sun Yat-sen University in Changting. At the age of to the First Normal Workshop Congress. In October, He Moscow to study. 59, he used his life to fulfill in Hunan Province, where he participated in the formation In November 1931, the clank oath of “I want to met Mao Zedong, and they of Hunan Branch of the CPC He entered the Central shed the last drop of blood forged friendship. In April and served as a member Revolutionary Base. In for Soviet”. 1918, He, Mao and others of the branch. On May 21, October 1934, after the Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History 8 Peng Pai Cover of Peng Pai’s book The portrait of Peng Pai Haifeng Peasant Movement The painting of Peng Pai Peng Pai town, to spread Marxism. 1927, he went to Wuhan, established. In the spring of In the summer of 1922, he initiated and organized 1928, Peng Pai led the revo- Born in October 1896 in went to the countryside the Provisional Executive lutionary army of workers and Haifeng County, Guangdong alone, learned about farm- Committee of All-China peasants to expand the revo- Province, Peng Pai is a pro- ers’ sufferings, and mobilized Farmers Association with lutionary base with Hailufeng letarian revolutionary of the farmers to organize and Mao, and served as member as the center to the southern older generation of CPC, a pi- carry out peasant movement. of the Executive Committee part of Dongjiang River. oneer of the Chinese peasant Peng wrote Haifeng Peasant and Secretary General. In November 1928, Peng revolutionary movement, and Movement. He is known as After the failure of the Pai was elected as a mem- the founder of the famous “King of Peasant Movement”. Great Revolution, Peng went ber of the Political Bureau Hailufeng Soviet regime. Mao Zedong pointed out in to Nanchang to lead the of the Central Committee, Peng went to Japan to the “Investigation Report of Nanchang Uprising. The and was ordered to go to study in his early years. In Hunan Peasant Movement” August 7th meeting of the Shanghai, where he served as 1918, he entered Waseda that “county politics must CPC elected the Provisional secretary of the Agriculture University in Japan to study be clarified by farmers, and Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPC political economy. During Haifeng in Guangdong has Committee, and he was Central Committee, mem- his stay in Japan, he actively already proved it.” elected as a member of the ber of the Central Military participated in the patriotic In April 1924, Peng be- Political Bureau and later Commission of the CPC movement of Chinese stu- came a member of the CPC, served as a member of the Central Committee, and dents studying abroad. and went to Guangzhou to Southern Bureau of the CPC Secretary of the Military After returning to China lead the peasant movement Central Committee. Commission of Jiangsu in May 1921, Peng joined and set up a workshop for In October 1927, Peng Provincial Party Committee. the Chinese Socialist Youth the peasant movement. In returned to Guangdong. On August 24, 1929, Peng League and founded the the later Great Revolution, he In November, the armed was arrested and imprisoned Socialist Research Society served as the commander-in- uprising broke out again in in Longhua Prison. On August and the Workers’ Compassion chief of Guangdong Peasant Hailufeng and the Soviet 30, 1929, Peng was killed by Society in Haifeng, his home- Self-Defense Force. In March, regime in Hailufeng was reactionaries at only 33. 9 Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History Mao Zemin The portrait of Mao Zemin Handwriting of Mao Zemin when The prison that the enemy kept Mao Zemin he worked in Xinjiang Mao Zemin of the Provisional Central Mao Zemin served as the Mao Zemin has been in Government of Chinese captain and deputy director charge of financial power for Mao Zemin was born in Soviet Republic. In a short of the confiscation and col- a long time, but he is honest Shaoshan, Xiangtan, Hunan time, he solved the difficul- lection committee, deputy and spotless.