Jin Zhonghua

Jin Zhonghua

Jin Zhonghua (1907-1968), pseudonym Meng Ru, Yang Shan, etc., Han nationality, born in Tongxiang, Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, is a famous modern expert on international issues and social activist. He was the chief editor of world knowledge during the Anti Japanese war. After the founding of new China, he successively served as vice minister of culture of East China military and political Commission, President of China News Agency, China Construction, Shanghai news (English Edition) and Shanghai news daily, vice chairman of all China Journalists Association, director of Shanghai Institute of international studies, and vice mayor of Shanghai, and was elected deputy to the first, second and third National People's Congress.

Profile

Jin Zhonghua (1907-1968), a Chinese journalist and critic of international issues. Born in Tongxiang, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, he graduated from Hangzhou Zhijiang University in 1927. In 1934, he and Hu Yuzhi founded world knowledge magazine as editor in chief. In 1935, he was the director of life bookstore. In the same year, he and Zou Taofen founded "public life" weekly. In 1936, he served as the chief editor of Yongsheng magazine. After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese war in 1937, he joined the "Alliance for the defense of China" and successively assisted Taofen in the three-day Journal of the Anti Japanese War and the three-day Journal of the national anti Japanese war in Shanghai and Wuhan. In 1938, he went to Hong Kong for world knowledge and editor in chief of Xingdao daily. He was also the leader of international news agency and the teaching work of China Journalism college in Hong Kong, and served as the editorial board member of public life. During the war of liberation, he was the chief writer of Wen Wei Po. Since the founding of the people's Republic of China, he has successively served as vice mayor of Shanghai, vice chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, deputy to the National People's Congress, President of Shanghai news daily, general manager, President of China news service, vice chairman of the all China Journalists Association, and director of the Shanghai Institute of international studies. On behalf of the Chinese press, he has participated in World Peace Council and international journalists association meetings on many occasions. He was persecuted during the cultural revolution and died on April 3, 1968.

Personal experience

career

In 1923, he was admitted to Hangzhou Zhijiang University. After graduation, he entered Shanghai Commercial Press in the spring of 1928 and worked as assistant editor of women's magazine. At the beginning of 1932, he was appointed as "Oriental Magazine". In the same year, he worked as a telecommunications translator for the Shanghai Branch of TASS, and began to study international issues. At the end of 1933, he was employed by Kaiming bookstore, Fuzhou Road, and was published by middle school students magazine. In 1935, Jin Zhonghua became the director of life bookstore. In June of the same year, he signed with Ye Shaojun, Liu Dajie, Chen Wangdao and Lao She to publish our opinions on the cultural movement. In December, he signed with Ma Xiangbo, Zou Taofen, Shen Junru and Li Gongpu to publish the declaration of the national salvation movement in Shanghai cultural circles. In 1936, Jin Zhonghua went to Hong Kong to help Zou Taofen organize life daily. In the summer of the same year, he returned to Shanghai and became editor in chief of world knowledge.

In 1937, after the comprehensive anti Japanese War, Jin Zhonghua joined the Shanghai cultural circle to save the Congress, writing articles for domestic and foreign newspapers, appealing to overseas Chinese and international organizations to support China's Anti Japanese war. In Shanghai, Wuhan and other places, he participated in the three day Journal of the war of resistance against Japan and the three day Journal of the national war of resistance against Japan, introduced the progress of the war situation, announced the news of the war of resistance against Japan, and attached a map of the war situation drawn by Jin Zhonghua's sister Jin duanling, which was highly praised. In August 1938, he arrived in Hong Kong, participated in the preparation of the Hong Kong Branch of the Chinese Young Journalists Association and the Hong Kong Branch of the international news agency, and served as the chief editor of world knowledge and Xingdao daily. At that time, Soong Ching Ling founded the Alliance for the defense of China in Hong Kong, with Kim Chung Hua as executive member. In the spring of 1939, the Qingji branch founded the China Journalism college. Jin Zhonghua was also the vice president and presided over the affairs of the college. In December 1941, the Japanese occupied Hong Kong. In early 1942, he left Hong Kong with Xia Yan and Jinshan and came to Guilin. In 1943, Jin Zhonghua joined the China Democratic Revolutionary League. In the summer of 1944, the Japanese attacked Hunan and Guangxi. At the end of the same year, they came to Chongqing, where they served as the director of the Translation Department of the information service of the United States. They often translated the speeches and news of Xinhua daily and Mao Zedong's on the coalition government.

In 1945, Japan was defeated. Kim moved to Shanghai with the US information service. In December of the same year, world knowledge was reissued in Shanghai. In 1948, he resigned from the US information service. In July of the same year, he went to Hong Kong to accept the entrustment of the Communist Party of China and edited the foreign English journal "Oriental News" of the Hong Kong Branch of Xinhua news agency. In March 1949, he left Hong Kong and returned to the mainland.

Experience after the founding of the people's Republic of China

Since the founding of the people's Republic of China, Jin Zhonghua has successively served as the president of news daily, Wen Wei Po, China News Agency (December 1952-1968), China Construction (English version), vice president of all China Journalists Association, and director of Institute of international studies, Shanghai Academy of social sciences. He has successively served as deputy to the first, second and third National People's congresses, member of the first National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, vice chairman of the first to fourth Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, Vice Minister of the Ministry of culture of the East China Military and political Commission, and vice mayor of Shanghai (November 1952 February 1967).

Experience in old age

After the beginning of the cultural revolution, Jin Zhonghua was persecuted. Jin Zhonghua didn't follow Song Qingling's instructions and "read and burn" the letter he sent, which was copied by the "rebels" when they raided the house. Jin Zhonghua hanged himself in his study on April 3, 1968.

In 1978, Jin Zhonghua was rehabilitated and his ashes were placed in Shanghai Longhua cemetery. In 1989, before the Qingming Festival, his ashes were moved to the celebrity cemetery area of Shanghai Wanguo cemetery.

Personal events

In 1927, he studied liberal arts in Zhijiang University of Hangzhou. After graduation, he was recruited by Shanghai Commercial Press as assistant to women's magazine and later editor in chief.

In the summer of 1932, he joined the Shanghai Branch of TASS and began to study international issues.

In the autumn of 1933, with Hu Yuzhi, Qian Junrui, Qian Yishi, Shen Zhiyuan, Zhang Naiqi, etc., under the leadership of the underground organization of the Communist Party of China, the secret peripheral organization of the Communist Party of China "Friends of the Soviet Union" was organized in Shanghai to study and introduce socialism and publicize the Anti Japanese and national salvation ideas of the Communist Party of China. From the end of the same year, I went to Kaiming bookstore to take charge of the magazine "middle school students".

In September 1934, he participated in the founding of world knowledge and was the main contributor.

In 1935, he served as the director of the Department of life bookstore and the director of the board of directors of life bookstore, and also participated in the work of "public life" magazine edited by Tao Fen. In December of the same year, the National Salvation Association of Shanghai cultural circles was established. He was one of the initiators of the association and was specifically responsible for the propaganda work.

On March 7, 1936, he was the editor in chief of Yongsheng weekly. After Yongsheng magazine was handed over to Qian Junrui, he went to Hong Kong to assist Zou Taofen in organizing life daily, and then returned to Shanghai to assist Life Weekly, once acting editor in chief.

From the beginning of the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937), he edited knowledge of the world. Until March 1949, he was ordered to stop publication by the social Bureau of the Kuomintang government. After the war of resistance against Japan started, he also helped Tao Fen to publish the three day Journal of the war of resistance against Japan and the war of resistance for all in Shanghai and Wuhan. In January 1938, he served as a member of the editorial board of life bookstore. In August of the same year, he went to Hong Kong to participate in the Alliance for the defense of China (renamed China Welfare Foundation in 1945) founded by Soong Ching Ling in Hong Kong. He served as a member of the Executive board and was responsible for Chinese news. He also participated in the preparation and leadership of the Hong Kong Branch of China Youth Journalists Association and the Hong Kong Branch of international news agency. From the end of the same year to May of the next year, he served as the general manager of Xingdao daily.

In April 1939, the Hong Kong Branch of the China Young Journalists Association founded the China Journalism college. He was the vice president of the college and presided over the actual affairs of the college. When the Pacific War broke out, he was forced to suspend enrollment.

In January 1941, the southern Anhui Incident broke out. In spite of the Kuomintang reactionary authorities' ban, he wrote an inscription in Xinhua daily by Zhou Enlai: "strange injustice for thousands of years, a leaf in the south of the Yangtze River; fighting with each other in the same room, what's the urgency!" They broke through the blockade of the Kuomintang government and published relevant reports, so that readers at home and abroad could understand the truth of the incident in southern Anhui through newspapers. In May, the magazine resumed its publication as an editorial board member, and later worked in Huashang daily.

In 1942, he went to Guilin to write a column for Guangxi daily and was the main writer for a time. In 1943, he joined the China Democratic Revolutionary League. From the end of the same year to the first half of 1948, he served as director of the Translation Department of the U.S. information service in Chongqing and Shanghai.

At the end of August 1945, he accompanied Song Qingling and others to meet with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, who arrived in Chongqing from Yan'an to participate in the Kuomintang Communist negotiations. In April 1946, he began to edit Lianhe evening news in Shanghai, until it was banned in May of the following year.

In July 1948, he went to Hong Kong to edit the English journal Far East News, published by the Hong Kong Branch of Xinhua news agency, and served as the editor of the supplement of "international knowledge" of Xinsheng evening news. At the end of the year, he took part in the work of Wen Wei Po in Hong Kong and served as the chief writer.

After the liberation of Shanghai in May 1949, he took part in the work of the military control commission. In June, he was appointed as a member of the Provisional Management Committee of the news daily, as well as its president and general manager.

In 1950, entrusted by the Communist Party of China, he founded and edited Shanghai news, the first English newspaper after the founding of new China. In April, he was appointed Vice Minister of culture of the East China military and political Commission.

In 1951, he served as vice chairman of the Chinese people's Commission for the defense of world peace and chairman of the Shanghai Branch of Heda. In 1952, he was the first president of China Construction Magazine and the new president of China

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