Zhang Chi

Zhang Chi

Zhang Chi (1898-1933) was named Bingnan and Zichang. He used to be named Changming and changed his name to Zhang Achang and Zhang Qichang. He was born on June 4 in a pharmaceutical business family in baozi village, Lunan County, Yunnan Province. When he was young, he was influenced and educated by his parents, and developed a character of justice and fearlessness of violence. After the revolution of 1911, he studied in high school. In February 1919, he was admitted to Kunming provincial No.1 middle school. In September 1924, he was admitted to the Department of political economy of Beijing University of the Republic of China. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1924.

Personal life

Leading the workers' movement

On May 30, 1925, the May 30 massacre took place in Shanghai. Zhang Chi took an active part in various activities to support the Shanghai compatriots. On July 18, he proposed in the Beijing news that all the registration fees for freshmen should be remitted to Shanghai except for the necessary fees, so as to relieve the striking compatriots. In June 1925, Zhang Chi was sent to Dalian by the Northern District Committee of the Communist Party of China to inspect the work, and returned to Beijing two weeks later. In 1926, Zhang Chi was once again dispatched by the Northern District Committee of the Communist Party of China and arrived in Dalian on May 25. As a special commissioner, he helped Dalian carry out the party's work and served as a propaganda committee member.

Editor in chief sunlight

In July 1926, in order to strengthen the leadership of the workers' movement in Dalian, the CPC Northern District Committee sent Deng Hegao to Dalian as secretary of the local Party committee. Soon after, Zhang Chi was sent to Guangzhou to work in the Political Department of the third army of the National Revolutionary Army as a political instructor in a political training class. In the spring of 1927, he was sent to Kunming with Wang Deshan to set up the Yunnan Provincial temporary Committee, which was responsible for the propaganda work and chief editor of sunshine weekly. During this period, he was engaged in revolutionary work as a middle school teacher.

Battle and test

After Chiang Kai Shek launched the "April 12" counter revolutionary coup in 1927, the local reactionary authorities in Yunnan began to arrest Communists on May 11. Zhang Chi was wanted and transferred from the organization. He arrived in Nanchang via Hankou on July 27 and served as section chief of the Political Department of the third army of the National Revolutionary Army. Zhang Chi did not officially work after he took office. On August 1, the "Nanchang Uprising" broke out, and then he joined the Nanchang Uprising army and served as the director of military supplies in Ye Ting army. On August 5, he went south with the uprising troops. In October of the same year, the uprising troops were besieged and defeated by the enemy in Chaoshan area of Guangdong Province. He and some comrades sneaked into Hong Kong and soon got in touch with the organization. In late October, he was sent to Shanghai and assigned to the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee. In May 1929, he took part in the second training class of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. After finishing his study in July, he served as an inspector of the Party Central Committee and worked for the revolutionary cause in Nanjing, Beiping (now Beijing), Shenyang, Yingkou, Nanchang, Wuhan and other places.

In July 1930, Zhang Chi was arrested by the enemy when he launched a strike on Luban Road in Shanghai. Under the severe torture of the enemy, he never admitted that he was a member of the Communist Party, nor did he reveal the secrets of his organization. In February 1931, the enemy sentenced him to five years' imprisonment for "sympathizing with the red elements of the Communist Party" and held him in Shanghai Caohe prison. Later, he was escorted to Nanjing central military prison because there were too many prisoners in the prison.

Die in glory

In the winter of 1932, after the efforts of the party organization and his family, the authorities concerned initially agreed to send Zhang Chi on bail for medical treatment. At this time, the mutual aid society, which had been associated with Zhang Chi, was destroyed. Due to the traitor's confession of Zhang Chi's relationship with the mutual aid society, Zhang Chi was put on trial again. The enemy tortured him and then bribed him, but he failed to yield. He was sentenced to death. On April 1, 1933, he died in Yuhuatai at the age of 35.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, the party and the government set up a memorial hall for revolutionary martyrs in Yuhuatai, Nanjing, in which the deeds of martyr Zhang Chi were displayed. In August 1998, the CPC Dalian Municipal Committee and Dalian Municipal People's government set up a statue for Zhang Chi in Dalian hero Memorial Park to show his revolutionary spirit of fighting bravely for national liberation.

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