Luo Zhanglong

Luo Zhanglong

Luo Zhanglong (November 30, 1896 - February 3, 1995), formerly known as Luo Aojie, was born in Liuyang, Hunan Province. Outstanding political activists, proletarian revolutionaries and politicians of the older generation. One of the early leaders of the Communist Party of China. In his early years, he studied at Peking University, participated in the May 4th movement, participated in the Marxist Theory Research Association in 1920, and initiated the Beijing Communist group with Li Dazhao. He was one of the party members when the CPC was founded. During his tenure as the head of the CPC Northern District Committee and the Secretary Department of the Chinese labor union, he successively organized and led the strike of Longhai Railway and Changxindian railway workers, the strike of Kailuan five miners' people's Congress and the general strike of Jinghan railway workers. He was a famous leader of the early labor movement of the CPC. He was successively elected as a member or alternate member of the CPC Central Committee at the third, fourth, fifth and Sixth National Congress of the CPC, and a member of the Political Bureau of the third Central Committee of the CPC. After 1928, he successively served as secretary of the working committee of the CPC Central Committee, chairman of the all China Federation of trade unions, and Secretary of the party and League. In early 1931, around the Fourth Plenary Session of the sixth CPC Central Committee, he planned the first "great split" in the history of the CPC. Since 1934, he has been a professor in the Department of economics of Henan University and Northwest University. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, he successively taught in Hunan University, Central South University of Finance and economics, and Hubei University. He was elected as a member of the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth CPPCC National Committee. Since 1979, he has been a consultant of the Chinese Revolution Museum. He died of illness on February 3, 1995 at the age of 99.

Life of the characters

Luo Zhanglong was born in yihelong, Liuhua village, Yanxi Town, Liuyang County, Hunan Province on November 30, 1896. He entered Changsha No.1 United middle school in 1912 and Changsha Changjun Middle School in 1915. He made friends with Mao Zedong, who was also studying in Changsha. He was praised as "the friend of Guan Bao, but no one came later.".

In 1915, in the name of "twenty-eight painting students", Mao Zedong issued a notice to ask for friends, and he was the earliest responder. Since then, he has been close to Mao Zedong and Cai Hesen and actively participated in patriotic youth activities. He graduated from Changsha No.1 Middle School in 1917. In April 1918, he and Mao Zedong initiated the establishment of Xinmin society, and later entered the German preparatory course of Philosophy Department of Peking University. At that time, Cai Yuanpei was president of Peking University. He was inclined to innovate, to study and to employ people. He advocated "cultivating Chinese and Western culture, and to be inclusive". At that time, Peking University's academic thought was unprecedented active. The October Revolution of the Soviet Union brought Marxism Leninism to the Chinese people. Under the influence of this new ideological trend, the May 4th Movement broke out. Luo Zhanglong took an active part in the May 4th Movement and eagerly studied the classic works of Marxism Leninism. At that time, most of the documents of the Communist International and the original works of Marxism Leninism were in German. He felt that they were broad and profound, and had the feeling of "being rich and poor". Therefore, he and some like-minded youths initiated and organized the "Peking University Marxist Theory Research Association" in the early 1920s. Soon after, under the guidance of Li Dazhao, he joined in the establishment of the Beijing Communist Organization and became one of the earliest members of the Communist Party of China.

Before that, he translated and published the biography of Kant (the author is a new kantist and a member of the German Social Democratic Party). At the same time, he began to practice the workers' movement. He took part in organizing Changxindian workers' cram school and went to Nankou, Tangshan and other places to investigate the situation of road miners. He also edited the worker's weekly, a magazine to publicize the workers' movement. After the formal establishment of the Communist Party of China in 1921, Luo Zhanglong was Secretary of the branch of Peking University and member of the Beijing District Committee of the Communist Party of China. In September, after the establishment of the Secretary Department of China's labor mix, he was also director of the North Branch. In the following years, he frequently traveled to Changxindian, Tianjin, Tangshan, Shijiazhuang, Shenyang, Harbin, Longhai and Jinpu. He has met a large number of leaders of road and mining workers, among whom are Shi Wenbin, Wang Jun, Deng Pei, Wang Hebo, sun Fangpeng, Yao Zuotang, Kang Jingxing, you Tianyang, Su Zhaozheng, Lun Kezhong, Tang Hongjing and Wang Weijian. Many of them joined the Communist Party of China through his introduction. Luo Zhanglong was the leader of the early labor movement in China. He participated in the organization of trade unions in northern China. He successively led the Longhai railway strike at the end of 1921, the August strike in Changxindian in 1922, and the Kailuan Minmetals strike in October. In 1923, when he led the Beijing Han railway strike, he and the railway workers were injured in a fight with the reactionary army and police in Changxindian. After the strike, while organizing the relief work, he wrote and published the book "blood of workers in Beijing and Han Dynasties" in March of that year. This book is the first important document for the CPC to report the historical facts of the February 7th struggle in detail. He is a powerful figure in the Chinese labor movement. Until the Sixth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he has been the leader of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He once co presided over the work of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China with Chen Duxiu and Mao Zedong. He was elected as a member of the CPC Central Committee at the three, four, five and six national congresses of the CPC. But his main job is still to engage in the workers' movement at the grassroots level. After the establishment of the Secretary Department of the labor union, he devoted himself to the preparation for the establishment of the all China Railway Federation of trade unions, attended the Congress of the all China Railway Federation of trade unions secretly held in Beijing in 1924, and presided over the second and third congress of the all China Railway Federation of trade unions. After these two meetings, Luo Zhanglong compiled several pamphlets, including the China Railway trade union in 1925, the Yearbook of the General Railway Association, and the collection of revolutionary soldiers, which truly reflected the historical facts of the heroic struggle of the railway workers under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. Among them, the collection of revolutionary soldiers is the earliest biography of revolutionary heroes. He used to be the propaganda minister of the general railway administration. After the "Third National Congress" of the general railway administration, he was elected chairman of the Committee and Secretary of the party and Youth League. In the autumn of 1926, after the victory of the Northern Expedition and the capture of Wuhan, he was transferred to work in the Branch Bureau of the Central Committee of Wuhan and concurrently served as member of the Hubei provincial Party committee, Minister of propaganda and Secretary of the CPC Hankou municipal Party committee. During this period, he also served as the editor in chief of the mass, an organ publication of the CPC Hubei Provincial Committee. After the horse Japan incident, the revolutionary situation was in danger. He once advocated fighting back on the spot, but it was not adopted by the central government which advocated the policy of concession. Soon after, he was transferred to Changsha to join the new leading group of the Hunan provincial Party committee. He served as Minister of workers, Minister of the Central Working Committee, chairman of the all China Federation of trade unions, and Secretary of the party and League of the all China Federation of trade unions. He has edited the Chinese workers, the labor daily, the Shanghai times, the struggle guide, etc., and has written the movement of Chinese workers from 1928 to 1930 and the workers' treasure book, etc., which describes the labor movement in this period. At the Fourth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in 1931, MiFu, the representative of the Communist International, established Wang Ming's leading position of the CPC Central Committee. In order to oppose the usurpation of power by MiFu and Wang Ming, who were endangering the Chinese revolution, more than 30 members of the CPC Central Committee initiated the establishment of the "extraordinary Committee of the CPC Central Committee", and Luo Zhanglong was elected secretary. The "non Communist Party committee" issued a statement refusing to recognize the legality of the Fourth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee, "a letter to all comrades of the party" and "a letter to the Communist International". Luo Zhanglong and others were expelled from the Communist Party. Most of the members of "Fei Wei" were sold to the Kuomintang and killed (the famous "Shanghai Longhua case" is an example, including Rou Shi, Hu yepin, Li Weisen, Feng Keng and Yin Fu, the famous "five martyrs of the left wing League"), or killed by the anti traitor team. Since 1934, Luo Zhanglong began his teaching career in Henan University. He was a professor in the Department of economics of Henan University. In 1935, he also served as the director of the Department of economics. In 1938, when the Japanese invaders invaded Kaifeng, Henan University was forced to move south, and Luo Zhanglong followed the university to Jigong Mountain. Soon after that, he went to Northwest University, then West China Union University and Hunan University. Until the liberation of the whole country. In the past 15 years of university teaching, he devoted himself to learning, teaching and educating people. He has successively written the history of China's national economy (published by the commercial press and listed as a University Series), European and American economic policy research, principles of economic history and principles of national economic planning (published by Hunan University), totaling nearly one million words. In 1953, he was transferred to Wuhan Zhongnan University of Finance and Economics (later renamed Hubei University) to continue teaching.

After the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee, under the care of the CPC Central Committee, Luo Zhanglong was transferred to Beijing and was added as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and served as a consultant of the Chinese revolutionary museum. Although he is an old man, he has been diligent in writing memoirs of revolutionary history. He has successively written Chunyuan Zaiji, Chunyuan Shicao, and translated works such as working for mankind. More than 500 articles have been published. In July 1991, the State Council awarded Luo Zhanglong a special government subsidy Certificate in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the development of China's scientific research. He died of illness in 1995 at the age of 99.

Significant impact

Luo Zhanglong was one of the early leaders of the Communist Party of China. In 1921, he became the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the northern region of the Communist Party of China, and in 1924, he was the propaganda minister of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He was elected as an alternate member of the fifth and third Central Committee of the CPC. He was also an early activist of the labor movement. He was secretary general and party secretary of the all China Federation of trade unions. He was sent by the Communist International to work in Germany, France, the Netherlands and other countries. He made a great contribution to China's early revolutionary cause and was also one of the earliest founders of the Communist Party of China. After the Fourth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in 1931, he was expelled from the party because of his opposition to Wang Ming, who organized an "extraordinary committee" to set up another Central Committee and split the party. In the CPC history books, Luo Zhanglong, Chen Duxiu and Zhang Guotao are the figures who split and betray the party. In 1945, the resolution on some historical issues commented: "the counter revolutionary acts of Trotsky, Chen Duxiu, Luo Zhanglong and Zhang Guotao who attempted to split the party and betrayed the party." But in his later years, he made outstanding contributions to China's education and social construction

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