Huang Hua

Huang Hua

Huang Hua (January 25, 1913 - November 24, 2010), formerly known as Wang Rumei. Born in Cixian County, Hebei Province, he is a Chinese diplomat. He graduated from Yanjing University and joined the Communist Party of China in 1936. He once served as vice premier of the State Council, state councilor, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Sixth National People's Congress, standing member of the Advisory Committee of the CPC Central Committee, Minister of foreign affairs, and chairman of Soong Ching Ling Foundation.

On November 24, 2010, Comrade Huang Hua died of illness in Beijing at the age of 98.

Life of the characters

Comrade Huang Hua was born in Cixian, Hebei Province in January 1913. From his middle school days, he pursued progress and accepted the Enlightenment of revolutionary thought. In 1929, he was admitted to the preparatory course of northeast Jiaotong University and began to read the classics of scientific socialism and came into contact with Marxism. After the September 18th Incident in 1931, facing the aggression of Japanese imperialism, he was worried about the future of his country and determined to fight to save the nation. In the autumn of 1932, Comrade Huang Hua was admitted to the Department of economics of Yanjing University. With the increasing invasion of Japanese imperialism into North China, the Anti Japanese and national salvation movement of Beiping students is growing. He participated in the Anti Japanese National Salvation Association organized by progressive students of Yanjing University, initiated the establishment of the Northeast Research Association, and actively participated in the patriotic national salvation movement. In May 1935, he was elected chairman of the Executive Committee of the student union of Yanjing University. In the autumn of the same year, he joined the Chinese national armed self defense association and later joined the Communist Youth League of China. After the North China incident, the national crisis was unprecedentedly serious. Under the leadership of the CPC Beiping provisional Working Committee, he took part in the organization and command of the 129th movement, which affected the whole country. After that, in response to the call of the party organization, he organized the Pingjin students to go south to expand the propaganda group, served as the head of the third group, went deep into the masses of workers and peasants, exposed the aggressive ambition of Japanese imperialism, and publicized the Anti Japanese proposition of the Communist Party of China. In January 1936, Comrade Huang Hua joined the Communist Party of China, and later served as secretary of the Party group and chairman of the student union of Beiping city. In June of the same year, with the consent of the CPC Beiping Municipal Committee, he served as an interpreter for Edgar Snow, an American Progressive journalist, and accompanied him to cover the Soviet Area in Northern Shaanxi secretly. In the Northern Shaanxi Soviet Area, he took part in the campaign of the first front army of the Red Army. After the three main forces of the red army joined forces, they were assigned to work in the Red Army headquarters of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission in November of the same year as secretary and English translator of the rear headquarters. In August 1937, he entered the Party School of the CPC Central Committee in Yan'an. After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, in November 1937, Comrade Huang Hua was appointed director of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, responsible for receiving and training progressive youth from all over the country. After that, he successively engaged in youth work in Xi'an and Wuhan, and successively served as the director of the Organization Department of the northwest youth Salvation Association, member of the Youth Work Committee of the Yangtze River Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, member of the Youth Committee of the CPC Central Committee, and party secretary of the all China students' Federation. He made preparations for the establishment of the National Youth Anti Japanese and national salvation Federation in Wuhan, participated in the establishment of the Yunyang youth cadre training class, and trained a large number of young cadres for the Anti Japanese war. In 1939, Comrade Huang Hua returned to Yan'an to participate in the preparation of Yan'an youth cadre school, and served as the head of school education. In June 1941, he worked in the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China as Comrade Zhu De's political secretary. In October of the same year, he also served as the Secretary General of the overseas work committee of the CPC Central Committee, participating in various work of the party's foreign exchanges. In June 1944, he took part in the northwest visiting group for Chinese and foreign journalists. In July of the same year, in order to receive the US military observer group in Yan'an, the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China established a foreign affairs group. He served as a member of the foreign affairs group, chief of the translation section, and chief of the Liaison Section. Under extremely complicated conditions, he correctly implemented the party's principles and policies on foreign affairs, insisted on the combination of principle and flexibility, and made outstanding contributions to the party's foreign exchanges and publicity during the revolutionary war. After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, Comrade Huang Hua went to Beiping in January 1946 and served as the Secretary of the Communist Party Representative Ye Jianying of the executive department of the Beiping military Mediation Office and the director of the Information Department of the delegation. He assisted Comrade Ye Jianying in properly handling the relations between the Communist Party of China, the Kuomintang and the United States, and was responsible for contacting the news officials of the Kuomintang and the United States, releasing news to Chinese and foreign journalists in Beiping, providing information about the work of the military mediation team, publicizing the position and propositions of the Communist Party of China on the current situation, and exposing that the United States helped the Kuomintang government to transport a large number of troops to North and Northeast China A plot to wage a civil war. He also actively established contacts with officials of the United Nations Relief Administration in Beiping to strive for urgently needed medicines, medical equipment and agricultural production materials for the liberated areas. After the outbreak of the civil war, Comrade Huang Hua returned to Yan'an in February 1947. In March of the same year, he once again served as the political secretary of Comrade Zhu De, following the transfer of the CPC Central Committee Working Committee composed of Comrade Liu Shaoqi and Comrade Zhu De to North China. In July of the same year, he entered Xibaipo, then participated in the national land work conference and the Shanxi Chahar Hebei land work conference, served as the leader of the land reform working group of Fuping (Wangkuai District) in Shanxi Chahar Hebei, and was a member of the Youth Committee of the CPC Central Committee. He went deep into the front line of land reform, correctly implemented the party's policies, and engaged in land reform review and "filling in and leveling up". After the victory of the Pingjin campaign, in January 1949, he was transferred to Tianjin as director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Tianjin military control commission. Later, he was transferred to the Nanjing Municipal Committee of the CPC and the director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Nanjing military Regulatory Commission. He took part in taking over the Ministry of foreign affairs of the Kuomintang government, and was responsible for handling foreign affairs. In October of the same year, he served as director of the overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the Shanghai military Regulatory Commission, and did a lot of work to solve labor disputes in foreign-related industry and commerce. Since the founding of the people's Republic of China, Comrade Huang Hua has been engaged in diplomatic work for a long time. Under the direct leadership of Comrade Zhou Enlai and Comrade Chen Yi, he participated in major diplomatic activities of new China many times and made important contributions to the establishment and development of new China's diplomatic cause. In 1953, he was transferred to the Ministry of foreign affairs and successively served as the Chinese representative of the Korean truce political negotiations and director of the Department of Western Europe and Africa of the Ministry of foreign affairs. In April 1954 and August 1955, he attended the Geneva Conference and the Asian African (Bandung) conference with Comrade Zhou Enlai, and served as the adviser and spokesman of the Chinese delegation. In August 1958, he served as Chinese adviser to the Sino US ambassador level talks in Warsaw. In August 1960, Comrade Huang Hua became the first Chinese ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the Republic of Ghana. In March 1966, he served as ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the United Arab Republic (Egypt). During his tenure, he vigorously carried out his work and made friends, promoted the development of friendly and cooperative relations between China, Canada and Egypt, and enhanced the friendship between the people of China, Canada and Egypt. He also led the delegation to visit African countries such as Tanganyika (today's Tanzania), dahomei (today's Benin), Mauritius and Congo (Brazzaville). He has done a lot of work to enhance mutual understanding between Chinese and African people and promote the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and African countries. In July 1971, Comrade Huang Hua served as a member of the central three member group. Under the direct leadership of Comrade Zhou Enlai, he participated in the reception of Kissinger, assistant to the president of the United States for national security affairs, who made contributions to opening the door to the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States. Later, Comrade Huang Hua became the first Chinese ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Canada. In October of the same year, after the 26th session of the United Nations General Assembly adopted a proposal to restore all the legitimate rights of the people's Republic of China in the United Nations, Comrade Huang Hua became deputy head of the delegation of the people's Republic of China to the general assembly and the first permanent representative to the United Nations and the Security Council in November of the same year. In the first five years of his return to the United Nations, the Chinese delegation made full use of the important multilateral diplomatic platform of the United Nations, held negotiations on the establishment of diplomatic relations with more than ten countries, and signed a communique on the establishment of formal diplomatic relations. In early 1972, the Chinese delegation proposed to the UN Committee on decolonization that Hong Kong and Macao should be removed from the list of colonies, which was approved by an overwhelming majority of the UN General Assembly, clearing the way for the future return of Hong Kong and Macao to the motherland. In December 1976, Comrade Huang Hua was appointed Minister of foreign affairs; in September 1980, he was Vice Premier and Minister of foreign affairs of the State Council; in May 1982, he was State Councilor and Minister of foreign affairs. In the major historical turning point of reform and opening up, Comrade Huang Hua resolutely implemented the guidelines and policies of the Party Central Committee for major adjustments to China's foreign strategy, unswervingly defended the sovereignty, security and dignity of the state, enhanced exchanges and cooperation between the Chinese people and the people of other countries, and made important contributions to creating a new situation in diplomatic work. During this period, he accompanied the leading comrades of the Central Committee or led a delegation to pay official friendly visits to more than 50 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe and the United States. He made great efforts to promote the development of friendly relations between China and other countries in the world and to create a peaceful external environment for domestic economic construction. He went deep into reality, sought truth from facts, strengthened the construction of diplomatic cadres, and carried out the reform of diplomatic protocol. With his high loyalty to the party and country and superb diplomatic art, he has been active on the international stage, expanded China's international influence and promoted world peace and development. Comrade Huang Hua led the Chinese delegation to attend the 29th, 32nd, 33rd, 35th and 37th sessions of the UN General Assembly. In August 1978, he signed the Treaty of peace and friendship between the people's Republic of China and Japan in Beijing with Japanese Foreign Minister Zhiyuan. In 1978, under the leadership of Comrade Deng Xiaoping, he presided over the negotiations on the establishment of diplomatic relations with the representatives of the United States. He visited the United States with Comrade Deng Xiaoping in 1979. In 1982, he signed the August 17 Communique with Secretary of state Haig of the United States. In November 1982, Comrade Huang Hua, as a special envoy of the Chinese government, attended the funeral of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow and held talks with the foreign minister of the Soviet Union, which became a landmark event in Sino Soviet relations. During this period, he also led foreign affairs

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