Li Weihan

Li Weihan

Li Weihan, Han nationality (1896-1984), also known as Luomai, was born in Changsha County, Hunan Province. In 1916, he was admitted to the first normal school of Hunan Province. He got acquainted with Mao Zedong, Cai Hesen and other alumni and founded the Xinmin society together. After studying in France in 1919, he participated in the preparatory work of the European branch of the Communist Party of China and became one of the earliest members of the Communist Party of China. After the August 7th meeting, Li Weihan once joined the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and became one of the main leaders. After the liberation of China, he was the head of the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party of China. There are two sons, Li Tieying and Li Tielin.

Comrade Li Weihan is an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a long tested loyal fighter of communism, an outstanding proletarian revolutionist, a famous theorist and outstanding leader of the party and the state in the united front and national work.

His main works are collected works of Li Weihan and recollection and research.

Life of the characters

On June 2, 1896, Li Weihan was born into an intellectual family in xueshiqiao village, Gaoqiao Town, Changsha County.

His great grandfather was originally from Fujian Province. Later, because of the relocation of his family, his great grandfather moved to Changsha. Li Weihan is the 40th generation of Li family in Longxi.

Early experience

In 1916, Li Weihan was admitted to the second Department of Hunan provincial first normal school. In 1917, he graduated from the summer school and stayed in the school as the director of the junior department. During the first normal school, I met Mao Zedong, Cai Hesen and others. In April 1918, together with Mao Zedong and Cai Hesen, he organized the Xinmin society in Changsha.

In October 1919, he went to work study in France. Under the influence of Cai Hesen, he accepted and believed in Marxism.

In 1921, he discussed with Zhou Enlai and Zhao Shiyan to organize the Chinese Youth Communist Party in Europe.

In June 1922, the Youth Communist Party of China in Europe was founded, and Li Weihan was responsible for the organization. At the end of 1922, Mao Zedong and Cai Hesen introduced him to join the Communist Party of China.

From April 1923 to April 1927, he took over the post of Mao Zedong, who was transferred to the Central Committee, as the Secretary of the Hunan District Committee of the Communist Party of China (later renamed Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China). During his four years in office, he led the people of Hunan to carry out the revolutionary struggle against imperialism, feudalism and warlords, making Hunan one of the most active areas in the Chinese revolution. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has twice praised Li Weihan's "prudent and thoughtful" struggle strategy.

Central work

In January 1925, he attended the Fourth National Congress of the Communist Party of China and was elected a member of the central executive committee.

In January and February 1927, Mao Zedong went to Hunan to investigate the peasant movement and wrote the famous report on the investigation of the peasant movement in Hunan. The Hunan provincial Party committee and Li Weihan fully agreed with Mao Zedong's report, and first published the full text in the Hunan provincial Party Committee organ publication "soldier". In May 1927, at the meeting of the Central Committee held after the Fifth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Li Weihan was elected a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and was also appointed Secretary General of the Central Committee. On July 12, 1927, according to the instructions of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, the CPC Central Committee was reorganized and the Standing Committee of the Provisional Central Committee was established, and Chen Duxiu was suspended. Li Weihan is one of the five provisional standing committees of the CPC Central Committee. In the severe situation of the failure of the great revolution, he participated in the decision-making and launched the Nanchang Uprising. Later, he and Qu Qiubai presided over the famous August 7th meeting, with Li Weihan as the chairman. The meeting summed up the experience and lessons of the failure of the great revolution, completely ended the rule of Chen Duxiu's right capitulationism in the CPC Central Committee, and determined the general policy of agrarian revolution and armed resistance against the Kuomintang reactionaries. Qu Qiubai, Li Weihan and Su Zhaozheng were elected to form the Provisional Central Bureau of the CPC. The August 7th meeting began the historical transformation of the Chinese revolution from the failure of the great revolution to the rise of the Agrarian Revolutionary War.

In June 1928, the Sixth National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in Moscow. Together with Ren Bishi, he stayed at the Central Committee. After the Sixth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he served as the central inspector and inspected the work of Shanghai.

Since the spring of 1929, he served as the head of the Organization Department of the CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee and Shanghai Municipal Committee, and later changed to secretary.

In September 1930, he served as secretary of Jiangnan provincial Party committee of the Communist Party of China (governing Jiangsu, Anhui, Shanghai, Zhejiang, etc.) and Secretary of Shanghai municipal Party committee.

At the Third Plenary Session of the sixth CPC Central Committee, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee and an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee.

In January 1931, at the Fourth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, he was dismissed as a member of the Central Committee and an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. After the meeting, he went to Moscow to study.

In 1933, he returned to Jiangxi Soviet Area and served as the director of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee. In January 1934, he was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee at the Fifth Plenary Session of the sixth CPC Central Committee. At the Zunyi Meeting in January 1935, he supported Mao Zedong's leadership in the Central Committee and opposed "left" adventurism.

During the Long March, he served as commander and political commissar of the second field column of the CMC and director of the local Work Department of the general political department. After the central red army arrived in Northern Shaanxi during the Long March, he served as head of the Organization Department of the Central Committee.

Border work

In September 1936, he served as secretary of the CPC Dingbian minority Working Committee.

In January 1937, he served as secretary of the CPC Shaanxi Gansu Provincial Committee.

In March 1937, he served as secretary of the Mass Work Committee of the CPC Central Committee. Soon he was acting president of the Central Party school, vice president and party secretary of Shanbei public school. Shanbei public school has cultivated a large number of revolutionary intellectual youth, many of whom later became the backbone of revolution and construction.

In 1939, he was Vice Minister of the central cadre education department and Secretary General of the northwest Working Committee of the CPC Central Committee. He successively drafted the outline of the Hui nationality and the outline of the Mongolian nationality, both of which were discussed and approved by the Central Committee. This is the beginning of the CPC's systematic study of minority nationality issues.

In October 1940, he served as vice minister of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and director of the press research office and Education Research Office of Academia Sinica.

In 1942, he took part in the Yan'an rectification movement and concurrently served as the director of the press research office and Education Research Office of Academia Sinica.

From September 1942 to April 1946, he was a member of the Northwest Bureau of the Communist Party of China and Secretary General of the Shaanxi Gansu Ningxia border region government. During this period, the Shaanxi Gansu Ningxia border region has made achievements and gained experience in developing production, carrying out cultural, educational, health and ethnic minority work, building a "three three system" political power, and improving cooperation and working relationship with non party personages. Li Weihan has made important contributions to the above work.

After the end of the Anti Japanese War, the old political consultative conference was held. In April 1946, the Central Committee decided that Li Weihan would participate in the CPPCC delegation. During his tenure as CPPCC deputy, Li Weihan had extensive contacts with people from all walks of life in Chongqing, Nanjing, Shanghai and other places, and helped Zhou Enlai to do a lot of work.

At the end of 1946, the CPPCC delegation withdrew to Yan'an and became Vice Minister of the Urban Work Department of the CPC Central Committee.

head of the united front work department

In 1948, he was the head of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee. Until the end of 1964, he was in charge of the United Front work, ethnic work and religious work of the Central People's Republic of China. In April 1949, he served as a representative of the CPC delegation and participated in the negotiations with the peace negotiation delegation of the Chinese Kuomintang.

On June 15, 1949, at the first plenary session of the Preparatory Committee of the New Political Consultative Conference, he was elected secretary general of the Standing Committee of the Preparatory Committee of the new Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference to be responsible for the nomination of CPPCC representatives. After extensive listening to opinions and repeated deliberation, he put forward a list of more than 600 representatives from five aspects, including political parties, regions, armed forces, people's organizations and specially invited representatives. He was highly praised by Mao Zedong, saying that "this is an all encompassing book of heaven" and that Li Weihan "has the greatest power". At the same time, Li Weihan also participated in the specific planning of the founding ceremony of the people's Republic of China. Mao Zedong consulted him on the question of whether to implement federalism after the founding of new China. Li Weihan's proposal of implementing the system of autonomous regions in a unified (unitary) country was discussed by the Central Committee and listed in the common program as the system of regional national autonomy in China.

On October 21, 1949, he served as Secretary General of the Administrative Council of the Central People's Government of the people's Republic of China.

In May 1951, as the chief Plenipotentiary of the Central People's government, he negotiated with the Plenipotentiary of the local government of Tibet and reached an agreement on measures for the peaceful liberation of Tibet, which contributed to the peaceful liberation of Tibet.

In December 1952, the "opinions on whether the Manchu is a minority" was issued, pointing out that the Manchu is a minority in China, including the Han eight banners, which are all Manchu and enjoy preferential policies for nationalities. In November 1954, he served as director of the eighth Office of the State Council of China. In 1956, he was elected a member of the CPC Central Committee at the Eighth National Congress of the CPC.

In December 1964, Li Weihan was removed from the post of head of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee. Li Weihan was later removed from his post as a member and vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and a member and vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference.

Life in old age

During the "Cultural Revolution", Li Weihan was persecuted, criticized more than 40 times and imprisoned for 8 years. After the end of the cultural revolution, 83 year old Li Weihan regained his freedom. At that time, China was waiting for a hundred wastes to flourish. According to his long-term experience of revolutionary struggle, Li Weihan, a consultant of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, repeatedly put forward some important suggestions to the CPC Central Committee and its leaders, which were valued and adopted by the CPC Central Committee. In his later years, Li Weihan also devoted most of his energy to writing his memoirs, which he regarded as an important task of the party's work. He often said to people, "why do you say Laogan

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