Zhang Aiping

Zhang Aiping

Zhang Aiping (1910-july 5, 2003), born in Daxian County, Sichuan Province, is an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a long tested and loyal communist fighter, a proletarian revolutionist and militarist, a former Vice Premier of the State Council, a former State Councilor and Minister of national defense, a former standing member of the Advisory Committee of the CPC Central Committee, a former Deputy Secretary General of the Central Military Commission, a former deputy chief of general staff and Minister of national defense science and technology Director of the surgery committee.

Zhang Aiping participated in the revolution in 1925, joined the Communist Youth League of China in 1926, joined the Communist Party of China in 1928, was awarded the rank of general in 1955, and was awarded the first-class Red Star Medal in 1988.

At 20:35 on July 5, 2003, Zhang Aiping died of illness in Beijing at the age of 93.

Life of the characters

Zhang Aiping was born on January 9, 1910 in a peasant family in Zhangjiagou, luojiangkou Town, Daxian County, Sichuan Province. In the spring of 1925, he entered Daxian middle school and began to participate in revolutionary activities as vice chairman of the student union. He joined the Communist Youth League of China in April 1926 and became a member of the Communist Party of China in August 1928. He served as secretary of the luojiangkou Party branch and member of the temporary county Party committee, and actively organized students and the masses to carry out revolutionary activities. In June 1929, he went to Shanghai to take part in the party's underground work and served as member and Deputy Secretary of the CPC Shanghai Zhabei District Committee. He was arrested twice by foreign patrolmen and KMT security forces. He fought unyielding in prison and maintained his revolutionary integrity. He joined the Red Army of workers and peasants in December 1929. In the 1st division of the 14th Red Army, he successively served as a team leader, political instructor, squadron leader and team leader. He was brave and wounded in his left arm in the battle against laohuzhuang and Taizhou. At the end of 1930, Comrade Zhang Aiping went to work in the Central Soviet area. He has successively served as member of the Standing Committee and director of the Propaganda Department of the West Fujian Special Committee of the Communist Youth League, Secretary General of the Central Bureau of the Communist Youth League Soviet Area, Secretary of the county Party committee of the Wanan Taihe center of the Communist Youth League, member of the Standing Committee and director of the Propaganda Department of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League, director of the training department, chief of staff and chief of the youth vanguard central headquarters, director of the Youth Department of the central anti imperialist and pro Soviet Union, and Executive Committee of the Central Committee of the Soviet Republic of China Alternate members of the Committee. He participated in the organization and mobilization of the establishment of the international division of the Communist Party of China and the reserve army of the Red Army, created the lyrics of the division songs of the international division of the Communist Party of China, participated in the youth truth published by the central organ of the Communist Youth League, edited the youth pioneer published by the central organ of the young pioneers corps, and published dozens of articles. He took part in the third, fourth and fifth anti encirclement and suppression operations. He joined the Red Army University in the spring of 1934 and served as political commissar of the 12th regiment of the 4th division of the 3rd Red Army Corps in September of the same year. During the Long March, he successively served as director of the Political Department of the 4th division of the 3rd Red Army Corps, political commissar of the 11th and 13th regiments. In such battles as breaking through the four blockades of the Kuomintang army, crossing Chishui, seizing Loushanguan, fighting Laoya mountain, defending Zunyi City, seizing baicengkou, blocking the enemy in Jinsha River, and annihilating the enemy's cavalry in qingshizui, he led his troops to fight bravely and charged in the front. He served as the vanguard and guard of the regiment for many times, opening the way for the main force of the Red Army and protecting the safety of the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission. After the long march arrived in Northern Shaanxi, he served as political commissar and acting head of the cavalry regiment of the Central Military Commission. He studied cavalry techniques and tactics assiduously and soon became an excellent cavalry commander. In order to cooperate with the Red Army troops to cross the Yellow River eastward to resist Japan, he led his troops to fight in Yulin, Jingbian, Dingbian and Anbian areas inside and outside the Great Wall. He galloped and made many miraculous achievements, effectively containing the enemy. In June 1936, he entered the Red Army University to study. In the first half of 1937, he was a teacher of the Anti Japanese military and Political University.

the period of Counter-Japanese War

After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, Comrade Zhang Aiping was appointed by Comrade Mao Zedong to Shanghai as the Secretary of the Military Commission of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang provincial Party committee of the Communist Party of China, and organized the Anti Japanese guerrilla war in Shanghai, Hangzhou and Nanjing. In the spring of 1938, he served as a staff officer of the general headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and did United Front Work in the Wuhan Office of the Eighth Route Army. In late April of the same year, he went to Jinhua, Zhejiang Province for United Front work, secretly developed party members and organized Anti Japanese troops. In the middle of August, he went to Queshan, Henan Province to develop the armed forces and set up the New Fourth Army advancing column. In January 1939, he served as secretary of the CPC Henan Anhui Jiangsu Provincial Committee. In June of the same year, he went to the east of Jinpu road to open up the base area behind the enemy. He served as the director of the Northeast Anhui Office of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army. He extensively united and expanded the Anti Japanese forces. In just three months, he established the northeast Anhui Anti Japanese base area including five counties and 16 districts. In December of the same year, he served as the chief and political commissar of the fourth corps of the sixth detachment of the New Fourth Army, opened up the Anti Japanese base behind the enemy in the Jiangsu Anhui border region, and later served as the political commissar of the Jiangsu Anhui column of the Eighth Route Army. In August 1940, he served as the commander of the third detachment of the fifth column of the Eighth Route Army, led the troops to march into Huaihai and Yanfu areas, took over the New Fourth Army in the south of the Yangtze River and crossed northward to open up the Anti Japanese base in Northern Jiangsu. After the Wannan incident in 1941, he served as the commander of the 9th brigade of the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army, the deputy commander of the 3rd Division and the deputy commander of the northern Jiangsu military region. In December 1942, he served as the deputy division commander of the 3rd Division, the commander and political commissar of the 8th brigade, the commander and political commissar of the Yanfu military division, and the Secretary of the Yanfu prefectural Party committee, commanding the anti "mopping up" struggle in Yanfu area. He led the army and the people to smash more than 20000 Japanese and puppet "sweeps" by using flexible and diverse combat styles. In September 1944, he served as division commander of the fourth division of the New Fourth Army and commander of Huaibei military region. He led his troops to fight in the vast battlefield south of Xuzhou and East and west of Jinpu road. He fought continuously and recovered lost territory, contributing to the final victory of the Anti Japanese War.

At the beginning of the war of Liberation

At the beginning of the war of liberation, Comrade Zhang Aiping served as the deputy commander of the central China military region and member of the central China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. He was seriously injured in the head in the battle of commanding the troops to break through the stubborn enemy of the Jinpu railway, and later went to the Soviet Union for treatment. At the end of 1948, he returned to China after his injury and became a member of the front line committee of the third field army. At the beginning of the campaign of crossing the Yangtze River, he was ordered to form the navy of the Chinese people's Liberation Army and served as the commander and political commissar of the East China Navy. Based on the people's army, he insisted on recruiting talents, recruiting talents, uniting and educating the former Kuomintang Navy personnel, strengthening the construction of rules and regulations, and establishing the first naval school and the first naval technical research guidance institution of our army, the Research Committee of the naval command. In less than two years since taking over the Kuomintang naval institutions and ships, a naval force with strong combat capability has been established.

In the early days of the people's Republic of China

At the beginning of 1951, Comrade Zhang Aiping was appointed commander of the 7th corps of the people's Liberation Army and Zhejiang military region. He was the third member of the East China military region administrative committee, and the third member of the East China military region administrative committee. He organized and directed the anti bandit operations on the coastal islands, eliminated the remnants of the Kuomintang army and the potential secret agents, went deep into the coastal defense front, surveyed the terrain, deployed and built fortifications, and effectively strengthened the coastal defense construction in eastern Zhejiang. In August 1954, he served as commander and political commissar of Zhedong front line headquarters, responsible for organizing and commanding the battle of dashiangdao. In September of the same year, he served as deputy chief of the general staff of the Chinese people's Liberation Army. In January 1955, he organized and commanded the first joint sea crossing and landing operation of the three armed forces in the history of our army. He captured Yijiangshan island at one stroke, conquered dashiangshan island without fighting, liberated all the enemy occupied islands along the east coast of Zhejiang Province, and dealt a heavy blow to the Kuomintang's plot to counter attack the mainland. After taking office in the general staff, he served as Deputy Secretary of the Party committee of the general staff and member of the office meeting of the Central Military Commission, responsible for military administration, equipment, military affairs, etc. He opposed all copying the practices of foreign armies, advocated the establishment of the PLA's organizational system based on the actual situation of our army, and paid attention to the establishment of rules and regulations. He presided over the formulation of the draft resolution on changing the organizational system, the ten articles on the working system and methods of the general staff, the development direction and organizational structure of the PLA during the second five year plan, and the eight year plan for the organization and equipment of the PLA Important documents, such as the plan and the opinions on changing the establishment of our army division, have made outstanding contributions to the normalization construction of our army.

Entrusted with the work of national defense construction

Comrade Zhang Aiping has been engaged in the leading work of national defense science and technology and national defense industry for a long time, and is an outstanding leader in China's national defense science and technology. In December 1955, he participated in the research and formulation of the national science and technology long-term plan by the science and Planning Commission of the State Council, and drafted the "preliminary opinions on the research projects of China's science for national defense needs within 12 years" and the "preliminary opinions on the establishment of scientific research work within the army". Since September 1959, he has successively served as deputy director of the national defense science and Technology Commission, deputy director of the national defense industry office, member of the central special committee and deputy director of the office, and member of the Central Military Commission. He presided over the work of national defense science and technology, equipment, and national defense industry, organized and led the "two bombs and one satellite" cooperation and the General Assembly war, and then served as chairman of the nuclear test commission and commander in chief of the field test for four times. He successfully organized China's nuclear test The first generation of surface to surface missile, the first atomic bomb tower explosion, air explosion and the third atomic bomb explosion test. At the critical moment when the development of China's first atomic bomb was facing serious difficulties, he went deep into the investigation and research of nuclear industry units all over the country, proposed to the central government to concentrate national efforts and speed up the tackling of key problems, and submitted the report on the basic situation of the construction of the atomic energy industry and several problems to be solved, which provided a scientific basis for the central government's decision-making. He has been working and living together with scientists, engineers and technicians, officers and soldiers of the test units in the deep desert and remote mountain areas for many years. In order to solve the problems in the nuclear test, he has worked hard and put forward many key guiding opinions. In February 1964, he served as the leader of the special leading group for surface to surface missiles, responsible for the establishment of missile operation bases and the establishment of leading bodies of missile forces. In June 1965, he submitted to the Central Military Commission the report on the formation of leading bodies of missile forces, which was approved by the Central Military Commission. On June 6, 1966, the CPC Central Committee and the CPC Central Committee

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