Tan Zhenlin

Tan Zhenlin

Tan Zhenlin (April 24, 1902 - September 30, 1983), male, Han nationality, is an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a long tested and loyal communist fighter, and an outstanding proletarian revolutionist. Born in 1902 in an ordinary worker's family in Chengguan Town, you County, Hunan Province, he joined the Communist Party of China in 1926. He once served as member of the CPC Central Committee, Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, vice premier of the State Council, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and vice chairman of the Central Advisory Committee.

He died in Beijing on September 30, 1983 at the age of 81.

Life of the characters

Early years

In 1911, Tan Zhenlin studied in a private school. Two years later, he became an apprentice in a book and paper shop. He read a lot of progressive books and accepted the revolutionary ideas.

In the early 1920s, two worker struggles were organized in you county and Chaling.

After joining the Communist Party of China in 1926, he successively served as the leader of Youxian workers' picket team, the propaganda director of Youxian general trade union, and the special commissioner of Youxian workers' and peasants' movement. He organized and mobilized the people of his hometown to support the northern expedition, launched a peasant movement and disarmed the reactionary forces. After the news of the "April 12" counter revolutionary coup was spread to you County, a demonstration of 10000 people in the county was launched. After the "Ma RI incident", because the reactionaries ordered him to be wanted, he was still unable to find Party organizations in Changsha and Wuhan, and was forced to return to you County for underground revolutionary activities.

In the winter of 1927, the workers' and peasants' revolutionary army occupied Chaling County. Tan Zhenlin was elected as the chairman of the workers' and peasants' army government of Chaling. At the same time, he restored the trade union organization of Chaling and became the chairman of the trade union. At the end of the year, with the withdrawal of the workers' and peasants' revolutionary army, under the leadership of Mao Zedong, he put himself into the struggle to establish the Jinggangshan base. He was successively elected as the Standing Committee member, deputy secretary and Secretary of the CPC Hunan Jiangxi border special committee and the land minister of the workers, peasants and soldiers government, and successfully led the land distribution work in Yongxing County, Jiangxi Province.

In 1929, Tan Zhenlin was appointed political member of the second column of the Fourth Red Army, Secretary of the Party committee and director of the Political Department of the fourth column, and former member of the Fourth Red Army.

In 1930, he and Luo Binghui led the Red Army to conquer you County in Hunan Province and Ji'an in Jiangxi Province, and put into the anti encirclement and suppression war in the central base area.

From 1930 to 1932, he served as political commissar of the second Red Army, member of the Chinese Revolutionary Military Commission, member of the Military Commission of the first red front army, and commander and political commissar of the Fujian military region.

In 1932, the command troops won the battles of shuixidu, Shanghang and mavu. After the Long March, the main force of the Red Army, together with Zhang Dingcheng and Deng Zihui, made careful arrangements and conducted the Red Army's guerrilla war for three years.

In 1935, he was the military Minister of the southwest Fujian Military Commission, and in 1936, he was the vice chairman of the southwest Fujian Military Commission. Throughout the second revolutionary civil war, Tan Zhenlin was an outstanding political worker and commander of the Red Army.

the period of Counter-Japanese War

During the Anti Japanese War, Tan Zhenlin was a pioneer of the Anti Japanese base area in the south of the Yangtze River.

In 1938, Tan Zhenlin successively served as the deputy commander of the second and third detachment of the New Fourth Army. He personally led the third detachment to launch a wide range of guerrilla war in southern Anhui. He also defeated the Japanese aggressors' attacks on qingshuitan and majiayuan. In the Fanchang defense war, he won small victories and seven victories, smashing the Japanese aggressors' plan to capture Fanchang and wipe out Southern Anhui.

In 1940, Tan Zhenlin focused on the construction of Anti Japanese armed forces in Jiangsu Province. He merged the first and second detachment of Jiangnan Anti Japanese volunteer army to form the headquarters of Jiangnan Anti Japanese volunteer army. He served as the commander and political commissar of Jiangnan Anti Japanese volunteer army and established the East Road Anti Japanese guerrilla base.

In 1941, he served as division commander and political commissar of the 6th Division of the New Fourth Army and Secretary of the Party committee of Southern Jiangsu District. In the summer of the same year, Tan Zhenlin led his troops to attack the enemy more than 80 times, smashing the Japanese crazy attacks; in the early winter of the same year, he personally went deep into Jiangdu, Gaoyou, Baoying and other areas, led the development of new areas. After the 16th brigade of the headquarters was attacked, he requested to return to southern Jiangsu and concurrently serve as the commander of the 16th brigade, summed up experience, reorganized the troops, launched a tenacious battle with the enemy, and protected the Anti Japanese base area centered on Maoshan.

In 1942, Tan Zhenlin was transferred to political commissar of the second division of the New Fourth Army and Secretary of the Party committee of Huainan district. He paid close attention to the rectification of the work style of the organs and the movement of self-help in production.

In 1944, Tan Zhenlin led his troops to liberate the vast areas to the east of Huai'an and Baoying, and achieved the victory of zhanjigang anti stubborn battle, reversing the passive situation of Anti Japanese in Huainan.

In 1945, Tan Zhenlin served as Deputy Secretary of the central China branch, deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department of the central China military region, political commissar of the central China Field Army, and was elected member of the seventh CPC Central Committee. He fought with Su Yu's command forces for more than 40 days and dispatched troops to Shandong after completing the combat mission in Central China.

In 1947, Tan Zhenlin was appointed as the first deputy political commissar of the central China Field Army; he commanded the inner line "BINGTUAN" to win the Jiaodong campaign.

In 1948, under the command of Xu Shiyou, he launched the western section of the Jiaoji line campaign, Weixian campaign, Yanzhou campaign and Jinan campaign. Later, with Liu Bocheng, Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yi and Su Yu, they formed a general Front Committee to command the Huaihai Campaign. They personally led three columns to intimidate the Kuomintang's Feng Zian army to revolt, and together with their brother troops, they annihilated Huang Botao's regiment.

In 1949, Tan Zhenlin attended the second plenary session of the seventh CPC Central Committee, during which the Central Military Commission reorganized the whole army. The East China field army was renamed the third field army of the Chinese people's Liberation Army, and Tan Zhenlin served as the first deputy political commissar of the third field army.

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

At the beginning of the founding of the people's Republic of China, Tan Zhenlin served as secretary of the Zhejiang provincial Party committee, chairman of the provincial people's government, director of the provincial military control commission, and presided over the work of the East China Bureau. He successfully completed the work of taking over the administration, clearing away bandits and fighting against hegemony, comprehensively deployed and organized the implementation of the construction and development plan of Zhejiang Province, and personally led the restoration of Hangzhou scenic spot.

In 1954, he was transferred to the post of Deputy Secretary General of the CPC Central Committee and director of the second office of the Secretariat. In 1956, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Eighth National Congress of the CPC, Secretary of the Secretariat, member of the Political Bureau and vice premier of the State Council.

In 1957, Tan Zhenlin returned to you County, Hunan Province, and successfully carried out the pilot work of democratic cooperatives. During the whole period of agricultural cooperation, Tan Zhenlin made a long-term and arduous exploration of China's agricultural development road.

Ten years of civil strife

During the ten years of civil strife, Tan Zhenlin, with the courage of a proletarian revolutionist, fought with Lin Biao and Jiang Qing's anti party clique. He severely reprimanded Zhang Chunqiao and exposed Jiang Qing's ambition. Although he was persecuted, he was still not afraid of violence and did not compromise.

From 1977 to 1982, Tan Zhenlin was successively elected as a member of the Central Committee of the 10th and 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the 4th and 5th National People's Congress. At the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Tan Zhenlin took the initiative to withdraw from the second tier and was elected as a member of the Central Advisory Committee and vice chairman of the Central Advisory Committee.

Death

He died in Beijing on September 30, 1983.

Anecdotes of characters

Writing to promote truth discussion

At the invitation of red flag magazine, Tan Zhenlin wrote an article commemorating the 85th anniversary of Mao Zedong's birth, which publicized the view that practice is the only criterion for testing truth. This is contrary to the attitude that "red flag" is not involved, and Tan Zhenlin is unwilling to delete it, so he has to submit the manuscript to the Standing Committee of the Central Committee for ruling. In the middle of November 1978, Deng Xiaoping seriously criticized the red flag's negative attitude towards the discussion of the standard of truth in his comments on Tan Zhenlin's article. He said: I think this article is good, at least there are no mistakes. A little bit has been changed. For example, if the red flag does not want to be published, it can be published in the people's daily. Why is the red flag not involved? It should be involved. You can publish articles with different opinions. It seems that not getting involved in itself may be getting involved. Deng Xiaoping's support has effectively promoted the in-depth discussion of the standard of truth throughout the country.

The secret of Tan Zhenlin's Report

Tan Zhenlin is a good speaker. His report is simple, lively and refreshing, with a distinctive Tan style. The secret lies in reading and doing.

Tan Zhenlin likes reading. No matter how busy he is, he always tries to squeeze time to read. In April 1940, when he was transferred from southern Anhui to southern Jiangsu, he and several comrades who accompanied him formed a party group and served as the group leader to organize everyone to study. The trip lasted 18 days and they studied for 16 nights. During the Soviet German war, in order to study the war situation, he drew a map of Europe with red and blue pencils, and finally "read through" the map. The accumulation of daily reading makes him easy to make a report. Everyone who has heard Tan Zhenlin's report knows that he never takes a manuscript when he makes a report. Sometimes he writes a few outlines on the cigarette case paper and makes a report without end. In November 1942, at the Nankan meeting, Tan Zhenlin, as director of the Political Department of the New Fourth Army, made a report on "streamlining the army and administration". Kangdi, the witness, recalled: "throughout the day, he talked about the work of the Soviet Union and China from the international and domestic situation without a speech. He also talked about the great annihilation of the Red Army of the Soviet Union. He clearly talked about how many German troops were captured, killed and wounded, how many German planes were shot down, and how many tanks, cannons, heavy and heavy machine guns, long guns, automatic rifles, bullets, various bullets and hand grenades were captured and destroyed. " After the meeting, Kangdi and others checked with the newspaper and found that the number was good.

Tan Zhenlin attaches importance to practical work. He often said that when working in the army, we should go to the front line of the battle, take part in the war and learn to fight; when working in local areas, we should go to the countryside and learn to do mass work. In the spring of 1957, Tan Zhenlin, then Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and in charge of the country's rural work, went to Youxian county to conduct a pilot project of democratic cooperatives. In order to understand the situation, he often goes to the village alone. He warned the comrades of the working group: "as a leading cadre, we should not be satisfied with listening to reports. We should always go deep, do investigation and research, and strive to master more first-hand materials in order to have the right to speak." On the basis of investigation and research, Tan Zhenlin insisted on drafting the report by himself. He once told Xinhua: "if the leading cadres read the manuscript drafted by the Secretary at the meeting, they will not become puppets!"?! Besides, other people's manuscripts

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