later chaired the People's Congress

later chaired the People's Congress

Peng Zhen (October 12, 1902 - April 26, 1997), male, formerly known as Fu MaoGong, was born in Quwo County, Shanxi Province. In 1922, he was admitted to Taiyuan Shanxi provincial No.1 middle school, seeking the way to save the country and the people, participating in the progressive organization Youth Association, and accepting Marxism. He joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League in 1923 and the Communist Party of China in the same year. He was one of the founders of the Communist Party of Shanxi Province. It was renamed Peng Zhen in 1937.

He was a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Sixth National People's Congress.

Life of the characters

During the great revolution, he served as member and Secretary of the Taiyuan branch of the CPC, Secretary of the Taiyuan prefectural committee of the Communist Youth League of China, Secretary of the second (District) committee, first (District) committee and third (District) Committee of the Tianjin prefectural committee of the CPC, director of the Organization Department of the Tianjin prefectural committee of the CPC and member of the staff movement. He organized and led the workers' movement and student movement in Taiyuan, Shijiazhuang, Tianjin and Tangshan.

In 1923, he held an adult night school in Taiyuan, where workers were the main students. He took part in the struggle against Cao Kun's bribery and established the Taiyuan civil rights movement alliance.

In 1924, he participated in the preparation for the establishment of the party headquarters of the Kuomintang in Shanxi Province, carried out the work of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, fought against the activities of the Kuomintang's rightists rejecting Communists, and took part in the establishment of the National Conference facilitation meeting in Taiyuan and Shanxi Province.

In 1925, he guided the establishment of Shanxi workers' Federation and Taiyuan Federation of trade unions to mobilize the masses of workers and people from all walks of life to fight against Yan Xishan's imposition of housing appraisal tax. After the May 30th massacre, he launched the anti imperialist struggle of all walks of life in Shanxi to support the workers and students in Shanghai. The Secretary of Taiyuan railway Federation of trade unions resumed his official post in Shijiazhuang.

In 1926, he attended the third National Congress of railway workers in Tianjin as a representative of Zhengtai Railway General Union. He organized and led the struggle among the workers in Shijiazhuang and Tianjin.

After the failure of the great revolution, he served as the Acting Secretary and Secretary of the CPC Tianjin Municipal Committee, member of the Standing Committee, director of the organization department and Acting Secretary of the CPC Shunzhi Provincial Committee (leading the party's work in Beiping, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Chahar, Henan and other provinces at that time), and was one of the main leaders of the CPC in the northern region.

Peng Zhen was arrested in Tianjin in 1929 because of betrayal by traitors. He was tortured and unyielding. He organized the arrested comrades to fight against traitors and enemy agents, which reduced the party's losses. In prison, he secretly organized the Party branch and served as the Secretary, organized the study and propaganda of Marxism Leninism, and carried out various forms of struggle.

After his release from prison in 1935, he served as the head of the Tianjin working group of the Communist Party of China, organizing and leading the masses from all walks of life in Tianjin to carry out the Anti Japanese and national salvation movement.

In 1936, he served as the representative of the northern Bureau of the Communist Party of China and director of the Organization Department, and directly led the headquarters of the vanguard of the Chinese national liberation.

In May 1937, as the chairman of the white area delegation, he participated in the National Congress of the party held in Yan'an and served as a member of the presidium of the Congress.

After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, Comrade Peng Zhen participated in the deployment of the party's guerrilla war in the northern region and the establishment of Anti Japanese base areas.

In 1938, Peng Zhen served as the Secretary of the Shanxi Chahar Hebei Branch (North Branch) of the CPC Central Committee. Together with Nie Rongzhen and other comrades, he developed and consolidated the Shanxi Chahar Hebei Anti Japanese base area, creatively implemented the strategic principles and basic policies of the CPC Central Committee on the war of resistance against Japan, mobilized the masses freely, strengthened the people's forces, and proposed and implemented the party building, political power building, armed construction, land and military construction in the base area He presided over the formulation of the current policy program of the northern branch of the CPC Central Committee on the Shanxi Chahar Hebei border region. Peng Zhen clearly put forward the idea of "Sinicizing Marxism" and "transforming the old society and establishing a new democratic society" in the base areas.

In 1941, he reported to the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Comrade Mao Zedong the specific policies and Party building experience of the Shanxi Chahar Hebei border region, analyzed the political trends of various classes and strata in the border region, explained the basis for determining the basic policies of the party in the border region and the key points of implementing the policies in different periods, and comprehensively and systematically summarized the basic experience of the border region construction from the combination of theory and practice. This report was highly praised by Comrade Mao Zedong, calling it "Marxist" and was approved and transmitted by the Central Committee to the party committees of the base areas.

After that, he stayed in the Central Committee, served as the education director and vice president of the Central Party school, the director of the organization department and the city Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, and took part in leading the Yan'an rectification movement.

In 1944, he participated in the seventh plenary session of the enlarged Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, served as a member of the historical report Committee and the Organizational Committee, and participated in the drafting of the resolution on certain historical issues and the report on Amending the constitution of the Communist Party of China. In Yan'an, Peng Zhen made great contributions to summing up the party's historical experience, unifying the whole Party's thought to the correct line represented by Comrade Mao Zedong, establishing the leading position of Mao Zedong Thought in the whole party, cultivating the party's leading backbone, and carrying out the party's underground work in enemy occupied and Kuomintang controlled areas.

In 1945, he attended the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China and was elected a member of the presidium. He also served as the director of the representative qualification examination committee. Peng Zhen made a speech on "urban work in enemy occupied areas" at the meeting, summed up the historical experience of our party's underground struggle, and elaborated the principles, policies and struggle strategies of being capable and concealing, using legal forms, reuniting the masses and accumulating strength. At the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the first plenary session of the Seventh Central Committee, he was elected a member of the Central Committee and a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee.

In August 1945, he was added as alternate Secretary of the Central Secretariat at the enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.

In December 1948, he was appointed secretary of the CPC Beiping Municipal Committee (renamed Beijing in 1949).

In September 1949, at the first plenary session of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, he was elected member of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference and member of the Central People's government. After the founding of new China.

In October 1949, he was appointed deputy director of the political and Legal Committee of the Government Affairs Council.

In November 1949, he was elected chairman of the Consultative Committee of the people's Congress of Beijing.

In February 1950, he was elected chairman of Beijing Federation of trade unions.

In December 1950, he was appointed director of the finance and Economics Commission of Beijing Municipal People's Government (until March 1953).

In January 1951, he served as Deputy Secretary of the Party group secretary Committee of the political and Legal Committee of the Government Affairs Council.

In February 1951, he was elected mayor of Beijing and was re elected chairman of the Consultative Committee of the Beijing Municipal People's Congress. In the same month, he was appointed director of Beijing Urban Planning Commission (until February 1955).

In June 1951, he was recommended as the director of the temporary Academic Committee of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee.

In July 1951, he was the president and member of the central political and legal cadre school (until November 1956).

In April 1952, he served as a member of the North China Administrative Committee of the Central People's Government (until November 1953).

In August 1952, he was appointed as the director of the Party group of the Central People's government.

In February 1953, he was a member of the Central Election Commission.

In September 1954, he was elected vice chairman and Secretary General of the first NPC Standing Committee.

In December 1954, he was elected vice chairman of the second National Committee of the CPPCC.

In July 1955, he was elected as the first Secretary of Beijing Municipal Party committee at the first party congress in Beijing.

In February 1956, he served as secretary of the Party group of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference.

In September 1956, he was elected a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee at the first plenary session of the Eighth CPC Central Committee and served as the Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee.

From June to October 1958, he served as the leader of the central political and legal group.

In August 1958, he was re elected mayor of Beijing.

In April 1959, he was re elected vice chairman of the third CPPCC National Committee and vice chairman and Secretary General of the second NPC Standing Committee.

In June 1962, he was re elected as the first Secretary of Beijing Municipal Party committee and mayor of Beijing.

In September 1964, he was re elected mayor of Beijing.

In January 1965, he was elected vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the third National People's Congress.

After the founding of new China, he also served as the director of the general association of the China Soviet Friendship Association, the executive director of the Chinese character Reform Association, and the vice chairman of the Chinese people's Committee for safeguarding world peace.

He came back after the "Cultural Revolution" and served as director of the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in February 1979 (until June 1981).

In June 1979, he served as chairman of the Bills Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress. In the same month, he was co elected as vice chairman at the second session of the Fifth National People's Congress.

In September 1979, he was elected a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.

In November 1979, he also served as Acting Secretary General of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

He served as secretary of the political and Law Commission of the CPC Central Committee in January 1980 (until May 1983). In the same month, he served as a member of the Central Committee of party history.

In March 1980, he served as the director of the Central Steering Committee of the "two cases".

In September 1980, he served as vice chairman of the constitution amendment Committee.

In September 1982, he was elected a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee at the first plenary session of the 12th CPC Central Committee.

In June 1983, he was elected chairman of the Standing Committee of the Sixth National People's Congress.

In October 1987, the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of China approved the request to withdraw from the central leadership.

In April 1989, he served as honorary president of Yan'an Spirit Research Association of China and honorary president of Li Dazhao Research Association of China.

In 1994, he was honorary president of China Yellow River Cultural and Economic Development Research Association.

On April 26, 1997, he died of illness in Beijing at the age of 95.

Character honor

On May 2, 1962, he accepted the first level national flag medal awarded by the Korean Supreme People's Congress.

On October 5, 1964, Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia awarded the first grade of the royal family Medal of shavadera.

On 28 June 1983,

Chinese PinYin : Peng Zhen