Li Chang

Li Chang

Li Chang (December 12, 1914 - September 3, 2010), male, Tujia nationality, was born in Tawo Town, Yongshun County, Hunan Province. He is an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a long tested and loyal communist fighter, an outstanding leading cadre of our party's youth work, science and education work and discipline inspection work, a former member of the Advisory Committee of the CPC Central Committee, a former Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Committee of the CPC Central Committee, a former Secretary of the Party group and executive chairman of the presidium of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a former deputy director of the foreign cultural Liaison Committee of the State Council The party secretary, former president of Beijing International Studies University, former Secretary of Harbin Institute of Technology, Secretary of the Party committee, former Secretary of the Central Secretariat of the Communist Youth League of China, alternate member of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, member of the Eleventh Central Committee, and thirteenth, seventh, eighth, eleventh and twelfth delegates of China's Communist Party, thirteenth Deputies to the 4th, 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th National Congresses, deputies to the first National People's Congress, members of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress, and standing members of the Fourth National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference.

Personal life

Li Chang, formerly known as Lei junsui, is a Tujia nationality. He was born in Yongshun County, Hunan Province in December 1914. He joined the Communist Youth League in 1933 and the Communist Party of China in June 1936.

In his youth, Li Chang actively participated in the Anti Japanese national salvation and patriotic student movement. After the outbreak of the September 18th Incident, he took part in three petitions and demonstrations in Nanjing, and took part in two large-scale demonstrations on December 9th and December 16th.

In 1928, he left his hometown and went to Hangzhou Qingbo middle school and Shanghai Minli middle school to study in junior high school. In the autumn of 1931, he entered the high school affiliated to Tongji University. After the September 18th Incident, he took part in the student patriotic movement and went to Nanjing three times to petition. He joined the Communist Youth League in 1933. The next year, the League organization was destroyed and fled to Nanjing to join the elder brother, losing the League relationship. In 1934, he went to Beiping and continued to study in Huabei middle school. In 1935, he was admitted to the Physics Department of Tsinghua University.

On December 9, 1935, the "December 9" student movement which shocked the whole country broke out. Li Chang took an active part in the "12.9" and "12.16" demonstrations.

In January 1936, the Peiping Federation of students formed a propaganda group with about 500 students from Pingjin and Tianjin going south to expand. He Yuhua of China University acted as the commander in chief. The third regiment is composed of Yanjing, Qinghua, Furen and other universities and middle schools in the western suburbs and Beicheng district. Huang Hua is the head of the third regiment. Li Chang, Yu Guangyuan, Yang Xuecheng, Zhang Zai and others participate in the advance team of the third regiment. Li Chang is the head of the advance team. The propaganda group of Pingjin students went south to expand, did a lot of propaganda and mobilization work along the way, sowed the seeds of Anti Japanese and national salvation. The first, second and third regiments also set up youth mass organizations such as the national liberation vanguard and the Chinese youth national salvation vanguard.

On February 1, 1936, the two groups merged to form the "national liberation vanguard" in Beiping at the delegation representative meeting held by the Nanxia enlarged propaganda group. Each school set up the people's first brigade, which was under the unified leadership of the Beiping people's first brigade, with AO Baifeng as the chief. At the beginning of the founding of the Democratic pioneers team, Li Chang was the team leader of the Democratic pioneers team of Tsinghua University. In March, he was elected as the leader of the Tsinghua democratic pioneers team, and the team became a strong organization. Li Chang was called the "Iron Eagle leader" by the team members.

In June 1936, he was transferred to the headquarters of the Peking people's pioneer corps to take over the post of chief. During this period, more than 30 democratic pioneers have been established throughout the country.

In February 1937, the National People's first team held a National Congress, established a national youth backbone organization: "the vanguard of the Chinese nation's Liberation", and elected Li Chang as the general leader of the National People's first team.

In February 1937, he was elected as the national corps of the vanguard of the Chinese national liberation.

Since 1938, he has been a member of the Youth Work Committee of the CPC Central Committee and director of the Organization Department, deputy secretary of the CPC Xingxian County Committee in the Shanxi Suiyuan border region, Secretary of the CPC Lishan County Committee in the Henan Hubei border region, Secretary General of the Party committee of the Henan Hubei border region, and director of the Political Department of the fourth column of the Shanxi Chahar Hebei military region.

After the founding of new China, Li Chang devoted himself to socialist construction.

In 1951, he served as the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League.

In 1952, he served as deputy director and Secretary of the Party group of the literacy Committee of the Central People's government.

After 1953, he served as president and Secretary of the Party committee of Harbin Institute of technology.

In 1957, he was elected as the first Secretary of the Party committee at the first Congress of Harbin Institute of technology.

In 1964, he was transferred to the deputy director of the foreign cultural Liaison Committee of the State Council, Secretary of the Party group and President of Beijing International Studies University.

Li Chang was cruelly persecuted during the "Cultural Revolution".

Since 1977, he has served as vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and first vice president of the University of science and technology of China, deputy secretary and Secretary of the Party group of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, executive chairman of the presidium of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, etc.

In 1982, he was elected secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

He was elected to the Central Advisory Committee in 1985.

Li Chang is an alternate member of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and a member of the Eleventh Central Committee (supplemented by the fourth plenary session); a deputy to the seventh, eighth, eleventh and Twelfth National Congresses of the Communist Party of China; a non voting delegate to the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth national congresses; a deputy to the first National People's Congress and a member of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress; and a member of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress; Member of the Standing Committee of the fourth CPPCC National Committee.

In April 1936, Li Chang rejoined the Communist Youth League at Tsinghua University and served as a member of the League organization. In May, the Communist Youth League announced the "transformation" and abolished the League organization. According to the notice of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, all league members who meet the requirements of Party membership will be transferred to the party. Li Chang officially became a member of the Communist Party of China and served as an organizing member of the Party branch.

In May 1937, the CPC Central Committee held a National Congress in Yan'an. Huang Jing and Li Chang, as members of the white area delegation composed of the northern Bureau, went to Yan'an to attend the meeting. After the meeting, they also attended the white area work meeting held by the Party Central Committee.

On July 7, 1937, the Lugouqiao Incident took place, and the 29th army rose to fight. On the 23rd, the 29th army withdrew from Pingjin and Beiping fell. At this time, the Democratic pioneers and the student union led by Li Chang and Huang Jing were still actively preparing materials to support the front line. Li Chang attended the emergency meeting of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and listened to Huang Jing's instructions on withdrawing from Beiping. After that, they arranged the evacuation work separately with Jiang Nanxiang.

Li Chang was determined to go north to resist Japan. At the beginning of August, he went to Taiyuan to lead the PLA headquarters. In November, Taiyuan was lost, and the headquarters of the people's first army followed the northern bureau to Linfen. In February 1838, Linfen was lost and the headquarters of the people's first army withdrew to Xi'an.

In Taiyuan and Linfen, only Li Chang, Yu Guangyuan and other people from the PLA headquarters were able to receive and transport young students from Pingjin to the front line to join the army and open up base areas behind the enemy lines. For example, song Erchun, Kang Shien and Wang Jiqing were introduced from Taiyuan to take part in the 120th division; Niu mengguan and Ji Yuxiu took part in the work of the alliance and the Shanxi new army; Liu Juying and Lin Yishan took part in the armed struggle in the Shandong Anti Japanese Democratic base; some students transferred from Taiyuan to Yan'an to study, such as Song Ping and Chen shunyao; some arranged for the friendly Army (KMT) according to the party organization ）The army went to work.

At the end of May 1938, Li Chang went to Yan'an for the second time to participate in the founding Committee of the Central Youth Commission and was elected a member of the Central Youth Commission. In May, because the Kuomintang authorities in Xi'an raided, Lin Boqu arranged to go to Wuhan as a member of the Youth Committee of the Yangtze River Bureau. In August, the Kuomintang government ordered the dissolution of the three groups, including the Democratic pioneers, and wanted Li Chang. He then went to Yan'an with Zhou Enlai, who went to attend the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. From then on to the autumn of 1941, he was the organization Minister of the Youth Committee of the CPC Central Committee for about three years.

From 1942 to 44, he served as Deputy Secretary of the CPC Xingxian County Committee in Northwest Shanxi. In November 1944, he went south to the Central Plains with the South detachment of the Eighth Route Army led by Wang Zhen. He served as secretary of Lishan county Party committee of Henan Hubei border region, Secretary General of Lishan district Party committee and head of the battlefield service group, Secretary of Zaoyang central county Party committee, and chief educator of Zhongyuan democratic Jianguo University.

In May 1946, he was transferred to work for the CPC delegation of the executive department of the Beiping military Mediation Office. In June, the negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Communist party broke down and civil war broke out, withdrawing to Zhangjiakou. He was transferred to be the director of the Political Department of the fourth column of the Shanxi Chahar Hebei military region (adapted from the Hebei Shanxi column and later renamed the 64th Army). In the winter of 1948, he was transferred back to the Party Central Committee to prepare for the reconstruction of the Youth League.

After the founding of new China, he successively served as secretary of Beijing Youth Committee, Secretary of East China Youth Committee, Secretary of Shanghai Youth League Municipal Committee, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Youth League, deputy director of the national literacy Committee and Secretary of the Party group.

In 1953, he was personally appointed by Chairman Mao to serve as president and party secretary of Harbin Institute of technology. In 11 years, he built Harbin Institute of technology into one of the best universities in China at that time. He trained a large number of talents and made important contributions to China's national defense industry and aerospace industry. In the winter of 1964, he served as deputy director and Secretary of the Party group of the China foreign cultural Liaison Committee.

Since July 1975, he has been a member of the core group, vice president, Secretary of the Party group and executive chairman of the presidium of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

In 1982, Li Chang was elected member of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and served as secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

He is a deputy to the first NPC, an alternate member of the Eighth CPC Central Committee, a member of the 11th and 12th CPC Central Committees, a member of the fourth CPPCC Standing Committee, and a member of the fifth NPC Standing Committee.

He was elected member of the Advisory Committee of the CPC Central Committee in 1985.

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