Chen Xilian

Chen Xilian

Chen Xilian (1915.1.4-1999.6.10) was born in Hong'an County, Hubei Province. He joined the Red Army of workers and peasants in 1929. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1930. Took part in the long march. During the Anti Japanese War, he served as the brigade commander and divisional commander of the 129th division of the Eighth Route Army; during the war of liberation, he served as the column commander of the Shanxi Hebei Shandong Henan field army and the commander of the second field army corps; after the founding of new China, he served as the first Secretary of the Chongqing municipal Party committee, the artillery commander of the CMC, the commander of the Shenyang Military Region, the commander of the Beijing Military Region, and the member of the Standing Committee of the CMC I work a lot.

Comrade Chen Xilian is an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a loyal communist fighter, and a long tested proletarian revolutionist and militarist.

Senior general of the Chinese people's Liberation Army. He was awarded the rank of general in 1955. He is a member of the first, second and third national defense committees, a representative of the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China, an alternate member and member of the Eighth Central Committee, a member of the Political Bureau of the ninth, tenth and Eleventh Central Committee, and a member of the Standing Committee of the 12th and 13th Central Committee.

Life of the characters

Born in Pengjia village, Doushan, Gaoqiao Town, Hong'an, Hubei Province on January 4, 1915.

Agrarian Revolution

In 1929, he joined the (Huang) PI (Huang) Annan guerrillas in his hometown and was incorporated into the 11th army of the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army in the autumn of the same year. He joined the Communist Youth League of China in 1930 and transferred to the Communist Party of China in the same year. In 1931, he served as a political instructor of the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army and participated in all the counter "encirclement and suppression" campaigns in Hubei Henan Anhui Soviet area. Since 1933, he has served as political commissar and political commissar of 263 regiment battalion of 88th division of Red Army 30, vice commander of 10th division and political commissar of 11th division of Red Army 4. He has participated in opening up Sichuan Shaanxi Soviet Area and fighting against three-way siege and six way siege.

Counter-Japanese War

After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, he served as the head of the 769 regiment of 385 brigade of the 129th division of the Eighth Route Army. In October 1937, he led his troops to attack the Yangmingbao Japanese airport at night and destroyed 24 Japanese warplanes. This battle was the first battle of the 129 division, which made the Japanese army lose the air support force to attack Xinkou and Taiyuan for a while, and forced to call back a large number of troops to guard the rear. It effectively cooperated with the Kuomintang army in the war against Japan, improved the prestige of the eighth Route Army, and was praised by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army. Later, he led his troops to take part in shentouling, xiangtangpu, and Southeast Shanxi's anti "nine road siege" campaigns. Since 1938, he has been deputy commander and brigade commander of 385 brigade of 129th division, and commander of the third division of Taihang military region. In 1940, during the 129 division's attack on the Baijin railway, he led his troops to take the strategy of "blooming in the hinterland" and combining internal and external forces to quickly annihilate the Japanese army in Nanguan town. In the first stage of the "hundred regiments war", he led the troops to tenaciously block the Japanese attack in Shinao mountain, causing heavy casualties to the Japanese army and containing a large number of Japanese puppet troops, creating favorable conditions for the 129 division's raid on Zhengtai road. He went to Yan'an in 1943 and studied in the Party School of the CPC Central Committee. After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, he served as the commander of the third column of the Shanxi Hebei Shandong Henan military region and the Shanxi Hebei Shandong Henan Field Army (later the Central Plains Field Army), and successively participated in the campaigns of Shangdang, Handan and Southwest Shandong. In 1947, he took part in the battle of marching into the Dabie Mountains. He led three people across Longhai Road and Yellow River flood area. With the alternate deployment, he took the lead in crossing the Huaihe River and reached the northern foot of the Dabie Mountains. In half a month, he liberated nine counties and large areas in Wanxi, opening up a new situation in Wanxi. In April 1947, in the battle of Northern Henan, he took the tactics of avoiding its edge, inducing it to go deep, trapping it in isolation, and then gathering together to annihilate the second fast column of the Kuomintang army, creating an example of annihilating a mechanized brigade with inferior equipment. Later, he cooperated with his brother troops to capture Tangyin, an important town in Northern Henan, and captured sun dianying, commander of the 12th column of the Kuomintang. After the beginning of the Huaihai Campaign, he led the 1st and 3rd columns of the Central Plains field army and the 13th column of the East China Field Army to form the western front group and was ordered to capture Suxian. In the war, he personally led the commanders and fighters at all levels to the front for exploration, made careful arrangements, and studied the key tactics. After the launch of the general offensive, more than 12000 defenders in Suxian county were annihilated in a fierce day and night battle, leaving Xuzhou Liuzhi group completely isolated. Later, he worked with his brother troops to annihilate the Huang Wei regiment of the Kuomintang army in shuangdui. In February 1949, he served as the commander of the third regiment of the second field army. He led his troops to take part in the battle of crossing the Yangtze River. After breaking through the defense line of the Yangtze River, he cut off the Zhejiang Jiangxi line, made a detour to the southwest, annihilated the song Xilian group, and captured the Kuomintang's "auxiliary capital" Chongqing. He also served as the first Secretary of the CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee, mayor and commander of the East Sichuan military region.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China

After the founding of new China, he was transferred to the post of artillery commander of the people's Liberation Army in 1950, and later concurrently served as the president of the Artillery Academy. He presided over the formulation of artillery development plan, organized troops to refit, import and develop artillery equipment, and made a lot of pioneering work for the development of artillery of new China. By the end of the 1950s, the artillery troops had met the requirements of a strong team, a reasonable establishment, complete supporting facilities, and regular training, and played an important role in resisting US aggression and aiding Korea and shelling Kinmen. During the site selection process of China's first missile test base, he led the expert group to fly across the Gobi desert and enter the no man's land for many times. He mastered a lot of first-hand information and made important contributions to the establishment of the PLA's strategic missile force. Since 1959, he has served as commander of Shenyang Military Region, Secretary of the Northeast Bureau Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, commander of Beijing Military Region, standing member of the CPC Central Military Commission, and vice premier of the State Council. member of the first to third National Defense Commission, alternate member and member of the Eighth CPC Central Committee (supplemented in 1968), member of the ninth to eleventh CPC Central Committee and member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. In January 1980, he was removed from the posts of member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, vice premier of the State Council and commander of the Beijing Military Region. He was elected to the Standing Committee of the Advisory Committee of the CPC Central Committee in 1982 and 1987. at 23:45 on June 10, 1999, he died of invalid rescue in Beijing at the age of 85.

personal honor

In 1955, he was awarded the rank of general, the first level of 81 medal, the first level of independent freedom medal and the first level of Liberation Medal. He was awarded the first class Red Star Medal in 1988.

Main works

The author of Chen Xilian's memoirs, Chen Xilian, takes the long march "attacking Yangming fort at night", the decisive battle in Huaihai and the formation of artillery of the Military Commission as the main line to record his many unforgettable past experiences, showing the magnificent past of a generation of revolutionaries on the cause of people's liberation and the brilliant past of the tortuous progress of the people's Republic of China, which makes people today feel that difficult and glorious period again Brilliant revolutionary history.

Character evaluation

Social evaluation

In his 70 years of revolutionary career, Comrade Chen Xilian has been infinitely loyal to the party, the people and the revolutionary cause. He has devoted his whole life to the cause of liberation, socialist construction and military modernization of the motherland. He has a firm belief in communism and the principle of the party spirit of the proletariat. He pursues truth all his life, adheres to seeking truth from facts, and stands firm and takes a clear-cut stand in the face of major right and wrong. He made great efforts to study Marxism Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping theory, wholeheartedly supported the line, principles and policies since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, consciously safeguarded the authority of the third generation of the party's collective leadership with Comrade Jiang Zemin as the core, and always maintained a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee in thought and action. He has excellent military command ability and leadership art. He has experienced many battles, gone through life and death, taken the lead, and has both wisdom and courage. He is good at fighting hard, evil and bitter battles; he is good at winning more with less and conquering the strong with the weak. He conducted the battle with careful planning, quick and decisive determination and flexible tactics. He was resolute in carrying out his orders. No matter how dangerous the environment was or how difficult the conditions were, he went forward bravely and never retreated. He is a famous general of the people's Liberation Army. He has the lofty ideological quality and moral sentiment of a communist. He is open-minded, open and aboveboard, upholds unity, takes the overall situation into consideration, is strict with himself and lenient to others. He is broad-minded, never cares about personal gains and losses, has the courage to dissect himself, has the courage to carry out criticism and self-criticism, and has the courage to take responsibility. He is hardworking and simple, honest and upright, modest and prudent, approachable, strict with his family members, children and staff around him, and has always maintained the fine tradition and political nature of our party and army. With his exemplary actions, he won the respect and love of the army commanders and the masses. (people's daily)

Birthday celebration

The symposium to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Chen Xilian was held in Beijing on the 5th. Zhang Gaoli, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice premier of the State Council, attended the meeting and met with relatives of Comrade Chen Xilian before the meeting. Chen Xilian is a member of the Political Bureau of the ninth, tenth and Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He once served as the first Secretary of Chongqing municipal Party committee, mayor, commander of Shenyang Military Region, commander of Beijing Military Region, member of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission, and vice premier of the State Council. In his speech, fan Changlong, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, deeply cherished Comrade Chen Xilian's revolutionary achievements and noble demeanor, and stressed that we should closely focus on the party's goal of building a strong army under the new situation, inherit and carry forward the glorious tradition and fine style of our party and army, forge ahead and work hard, so as to safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests, and achieve the goal of "two centenary" and realize the goal of "two centenary" We should make due contributions to the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

member of family

Chen Xilian's wife died in the spring of 1948, leaving a 3-year-old son. Later, Chen Xilian remarried with Wang xuanmei and had four children. His eldest son, Chen Zaiqiang, was awarded the rank of senior colonel. On April 26, 1982, the second son of a pilot was killed when he was on a flight mission in Guilin. He was 32 years old. the third son, Chen Zaifang, 2

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