Zhang Tailei

Zhang Tailei

Zhang Tailei (June 17, 1898 - December 12, 1927), formerly known as Zeng rang, was named Tailai, and his scientific name was Fu. After joining the revolution, his first name was chunmu and Chunnian, and later changed to Tailei. Male, Han nationality, he was an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, an outstanding proletarian revolutionist, a famous political activist and propagandist, and one of the important early leaders of the Communist Party of China He was one of the founders of the Yiyang Youth League and the outstanding leader of the youth movement. He was the main leader of the Guangzhou Uprising. He was the first envoy of the Communist Party of China to work in the Communist International, one of the earliest envoys of the Chinese Socialist Youth League to work in the Communist International, and a famous political activist and propagandist in the party. On December 12, 1927, he was shot by the enemy in Guangzhou Uprising and died at the age of 29. Zhang Tailei gave his young life to explore the Chinese revolutionary road and became the first member of the CPC Central Committee and Political Bureau who sacrificed himself in the front line of the battle in the history of the CPC.

On September 10, 2009, Zhang Tailei was rated as one of the 100 heroic models who made outstanding contributions to the founding of new China.

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Life of the characters

Zhang Tailei was born on June 17, 1898 in the backyard of Xue Tianxing pihang, Xicang street, west gate, Wujin County, Jiangsu Province (today's Zhonglou District, Changzhou City). His original name was Zeng rang, and his scientific name was Zhang Fu. After he joined the revolution, he was also named Chunnian, chunmu, and later changed his name to Tailei. It means waking up the madness, cracking down on violence, dispersing the haze, and transforming the society. He grew up in a poor family and lost his father at the age of 8. He lived on his mother's meager income. He studied in Changzhou Fu middle school in his early years and graduated from Beiyang University (now Tianjin University) in law.

In the summer of 1911, Zhang Tailei graduated from Xijiao primary school with excellent grades and was admitted to Changzhou middle school.

He was admitted to Tianjin Beiyang university to study law in 1915.

He was admitted to Tianjin Beiyang University in 1916 and graduated in 1920. When I was in school, my name was Zhang Zeng rang. He is a fellow of Qu Qiubai, another early revolutionary of the Communist Party of China. He was once a good friend of Changzhou Fu middle school. He was also Qu Qiubai's introducer to join the party.

In the spring of 1918, Zhang Tailei married Lu Jinghua, the niece of a well-off family in Changzhou. Lu Jinghua lost his parents when he was young and grew up in his uncle's home. After his marriage, Zhang continued to study at Beiyang university to complete his studies. During the holidays, he went home to reunite with his mother and wife.

He joined the May 4th Movement in 1919.

In 1920, the Comintern sent vikinski and his party to Beijing for talks with Li Dazhao and others to discuss the establishment of the Communist Party of China. Zhang Tailei served as the English translator for the talks.

He joined the Beijing Communist group in October 1920. We actively carried out the workers' movement, established a labor Tutorial school with Deng Zhongxia in Changxindian, and trained the first batch of backbones of the Northern Railway Workers' movement. Later, he went to Tianjin to organize the Socialist Youth League.

In the spring of 1921, he went to Moscow and served as the Secretary of the Chinese branch of the Far East Secretariat of the Communist International. In June, he was appointed as a representative of the Communist Party of China (CPC) under construction, attended the Third Congress of the Comintern held in Moscow, and became the first envoy sent by the CPC to the Comintern. He accompanied the representatives sent by the Communist International to China many times to meet with Li Dazhao, Chen Duxiu, etc., and participated in the activities of founding the Communist Party of China. Zhang Tailei is also one of the founders of the Chinese Socialist Youth League, and once served as the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Youth League.

On May 5, 1922, the first Congress of the Chinese Socialist Youth League was held in Guangzhou. Zhang Tailei presided over the conference and delivered an opening speech. The conference passed the League outline, League constitution and other resolutions drafted by Zhang Tailei and others. At the meeting, Zhang Tailei was elected as a member of the Executive Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League.

In January 1925, the Chinese Socialist Youth League held its third National Congress in Shanghai. The name of the League was changed to the Chinese Communist Youth League, and Zhang Tailei was elected general secretary. Later, Zhang Tailei went to Guangzhou to work as an interpreter for Bao Luoting, an adviser of the Soviet Union to the national government, and concurrently as the propaganda minister of the Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Party of China.

In March 1926, Chiang Kai Shek created the "Zhongshan warship incident", and Zhang Tai Lei advocated arming the workers and peasants to fight back.

In April 1927, with the smooth development of the northern expedition, the focus of the great revolution shifted from Guangzhou to Wuhan, and Zhang Tailei was transferred to Secretary of the CPC Hubei Provincial Committee.

In 1927, Zhang Tailei became a member of the five member Standing Committee of the provisional Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. He took part in the August 7th Meeting of the CPC Central Committee in Hankou. He resolutely criticized Chen Duxiu's right capitulation and was elected as an alternate member of the provisional Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. Later, he served as secretary of the Guangdong provincial Party committee and Secretary of the Southern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. Later, he was ordered to venture to Shanghang, Fujian Province, to convey the spirit of the August 7th meeting to the Nanchang Uprising troops. In September, he went to Chaoshan to organize the masses to meet the Nanchang Uprising army. In November, he went to Shanghai to participate in the formulation of the Guangzhou Uprising plan, and later returned to Guangzhou to preside over the preparations for the armed uprising. He also served as the Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Military Commission of the CPC. According to the instructions of the CPC Central Committee, he organized the Guangzhou Uprising together with Ye Ting, Ye Jianying, Yang Yin, Zhou Wenyong, Yun Daiying and Nie Rongzhen.

On December 11, 1927, Zhang Tailei led the uprising in Guangzhou and established the Soviet government in Guangzhou. He served as the acting chairman and member of the people's navy and army.

On December 12, 1927, more than two o'clock in the afternoon of the second day of the Guangzhou Uprising, an open car with a red flag drove out of the uprising headquarters and ran to the north gate, where the gunfight was imminent. On the bus sat the representative of the Communist International Newman and the General Commander of the uprising Zhang Tailei. When we got to dabeisi Road, a group of people suddenly appeared in front of us. The driver looked carefully and found that they were a group of rampant workers. With a roar, the reactionary forces made up of these workers scattered to the roadside and fired. Zhang Tailei was shot three times and fell in the car. That year, Zhang was only 29 years old. He was the first member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee who died in the battle line.

Main achievements

Zhang Tailei is one of the earliest members of the Communist Party of China and one of the important founders of the Communist Party of China. During the May 4th movement, Zhang Tailei was the backbone of the patriotic movement in Tianjin. He formed a fighting friendship with Zhou Enlai and others, and went to Beijing as a representative of the Tianjin Federation of students to meet Li Dazhao and others. In the spring of 1920, Wei jinski, the representative of the Communist International, came to China to discuss with Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu the establishment of the Communist Party in China. Zhang Tailei acted as the translator. Later, he joined the Communist group in Beijing, and then set up the Tianjin Socialist Youth League group as its secretary. In June 1921, Li and Zhang decided to hold the first National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai. Before the meeting, Zhang Tailei translated the draft Manifesto of the Communist Party of China for the preparatory group and submitted it to Malin for revision. Later, he participated in the second, third, fourth, fifth and August 7th sessions of the CPC National Congress. He was a member of the fourth houbu Central Committee, a member of the Fifth Central Committee, a member of the five member Standing Committee of the provisional Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and served as Secretary of Hubei provincial Party committee and Guangdong provincial Party committee. During this period, Comrade Zhang Tailei took part in the major decision-making activities of the Communist Party of China. With the foresight and sagacity of the Communist Party, he judged the situation and put forward correct propositions many times. In practice, he overcame all kinds of difficulties with a high degree of principle and strategic flexibility, so that the correct principles and policies of the party can be implemented.

He was one of the initiators of the early labor movement of the Communist Party of China. In the spring of 1920, he presided over the establishment of Changxindian labor Tutorial school. He often gave lectures to workers with Li Dazhao and Deng Zhongxia, and visited workers' homes. He trained the first batch of backbone of Northern Railway workers.

In Comrade Zhang Tailei's revolutionary career, it is also an important content to engage in the party's youth work. In May 1922, Zhang Tailei presided over the first National Congress of the Chinese Socialist Youth League in Guangzhou, which unanimously adopted the first league outline and constitution since the founding of the Chinese Socialist Youth League. In January 1925, he presided over the third National Congress of the Socialist Youth League in Shanghai. The Congress decided to change the Chinese Socialist Youth League into the Chinese Communist Youth League, and elected Zhang Tailei as the Secretary of the Central Committee of the league. Comrade Zhang Tailei also participated in the work and activities of the Youth Communist International many times as an envoy of the Chinese Youth League, faithfully and creatively performing his duties.

He was the first international activist in the party. At the beginning of 1921, he was sent to Soviet Russia as the Secretary of the China branch of the International Far East Bureau, and became the first Chinese Communist to work in the Communist International. In June 1921, entrusted by the Communist Party of China, Zhang Tailei attended the Third Congress of the Communist International in Moscow and became the first envoy of the Communist Party of China to appear at the conference. On the rostrum of the Third Congress of the Communist International held in Moscow, he made his first solemn speech on behalf of the Communist Party of China. The written report he submitted to the Congress is a precious document for studying the early history of the Communist Party of China. He is one of the few Chinese Communists who have met Lenin. He has served as the interpreter and Secretary of the representatives of the Communist International, such as vikinski, Malin, darling and Borodin. With his boundless energy and profound knowledge, he has won the respect of the Communists from all over the world. He has shown outstanding political and diplomatic talents and is known as the "true internationalist".

Zhang Tailei made a special contribution to the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party which influenced the historical process of Chinese revolution. He participated in many important talks between leaders of the Communist Party of China, representatives of the Communist International and envoys of the Soviet Union and Sun Yat Sen and other important figures of the Kuomintang. He was appointed as Dr. Sun Yat Sen's deputy

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