Li Yiping

Li Yiping

Li Yiping (1904-1991), counsellor of the State Council, executive director of the Chinese Buddhist Association, and a non partisan patriotic Democrat. Also known as Li Yuheng. Born on January 28, 1904 in Dayao County, Yunnan Province. He studied in Kunming provincial No.1 Middle School in 1919. Since 1922, he has studied in Nanyang middle school in Shanghai, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou tutorial classes in the middle school attached to Southeast University in Nanjing, and No.1 Middle School of Jiangsu Province. He was admitted to Nanjing University in the autumn of 1924.

Mr. Li Yiping devoted himself to the revolutionary cause many times in his life. Influenced by the victory of the October Revolution of the Soviet Union, his article in commemoration of the October Revolution was reprinted by New Youth magazine. In 1925, he took part in leading the May 30th Movement in Nanjing. In 1926, he participated in the planning work of the Guangdong revolutionary government for the northern expedition. In Kunming, he also supported the revolutionary activities of Li Guozhu, Zhao Zuozhuan and other martyrs. In 1927, he served as chief of the social section of the General Political Department of the National Revolutionary Army and leader of the political team of the 11th army.

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As the warlords scuffled and the political situation became more and more turbulent, he felt that he could not make a comeback. In 1930, he called himself ill and left the Kuomintang military and political circles. In Lushan, the school of "Jiao Lu Jing she" was founded to practice the wish of saving the nation through education. After the September 18th Incident, he gradually realized that only relying on "knowledge" and "education" to save the country was not enough. The only way to save China was to arouse the people, unite against Japan and safeguard the dignity of the Chinese nation. Therefore, on the one hand, he organized students to study and master scientific and cultural knowledge, on the other hand, he actively publicized Anti Japanese ideas and guided students to take the road of Anti Japanese and national salvation, from which many students went to the front line of Anti Japanese war.

In 1938, he left Lushan and returned to his hometown Dayao County, Yunnan Province, where he founded Dayao No.1 middle school. The school is the first high-quality complete middle school in western Yunnan, which has a great influence in Chuxiong area and even in the whole province. During his stay in Dayao, he traveled all over the country, publicizing, mobilizing and organizing migrant workers to take part in the construction of roads and Yunnan Myanmar railway. He made painstaking efforts to support the Anti Japanese War, change the backwardness of the southwest frontier as soon as possible, and promote the economic and cultural exchanges between the frontier and the mainland.

In 1942, the Japanese invaders entered Yunnan from Burma, and Western Yunnan was occupied. At the invitation of Mr. Long Yun, chairman of Yunnan Province of the national government, he went to Kunming to discuss the situation and anti Japanese strategy. Since then, as the deputy speaker of the second provincial council of Yunnan Province, he went to Chongqing many times to contact with Comrade Dong Biwu, Secretary of the Southern Bureau of the Communist Party of China, and began to accept the CPC's proposition of resisting Japan and saving the country, and actively participated in the Anti Japanese Democratic patriotic movement.

During the eight years of the Anti Japanese War, he deeply realized the truth that only the Communist Party can save China from the great feat of the Chinese Communist Party leading the people to fight a bloody battle and finally defeat the Japanese imperialism. He helped Mr. Zhang Chong, a famous general of Yunnan army, break through the encirclement of Kuomintang reactionaries, travel to Peiping and go to Yan'an to take part in revolutionary work. During his tenure in the provincial council, Yunnan's political situation was complicated. Regardless of his personal safety, he used his private relations with the upper class of the Kuomintang to cope with various pressures from the Chongqing national government. At the same time, they tried their best to raise funds for the democratic parties, subsidize patriotic and democratic activities, and run for the maintenance of the Anti Japanese united front and the victory of the Anti Japanese war.

After the old Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference moved to Nanjing, as a representative of Mr. Long Yun, he lived in Nanjing for a long time, met with Dong Biwu and other comrades regularly, exchanged information, planned the military uprising and the overthrow of Chiang Kai Shek, and continued to talk for the Republic of China. After the peace talks broke down and the delegation withdrew to Yan'an, on behalf of Mr. Long Yun, he traveled to Nanjing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and other places. After several twists and turns, he got in touch with the underground Party organizations of the Communist Party of China and continued to assist Mr. Long Yun in planning the Yunnan army uprising and Yunnan uprising. On the eve of Yunnan's peaceful liberation. He rescued a group of Communists and progressives according to the list provided by the underground Party organizations of the Communist Party of China.

In the summer of 1949, he went to Beijing to ask the CPC Central Committee for instructions on the Yunnan uprising, and discussed with Dong Biwu, Zhu De, Zhou Enlai and other central leaders about the specific deployment of the uprising. He made great contributions to the Yunnan Yunnan army uprising and the peaceful liberation of Yunnan. After the Yunnan uprising, he accompanied Mr. Long Yun back to Beijing from Hong Kong under the instruction of the Party Central Committee. During his stay in Hong Kong, he actively supported the progressive cultural cause. When Wen Wei Po was in the most difficult situation, he donated tens of thousands of yuan on behalf of Long Yun to support Wen Wei Po so that it could continue to be published.

In 1950, Mr. Li Yiping was appointed as a member of the Yunnan provincial government by the Central People's government and attended the second plenary session of the first session of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference as a specially invited representative of the education sector. After the meeting, entrusted by Premier Zhou, he went to Hong Kong again to engage in United Front work. Later, due to the outbreak of the Korean War, the situation changed and returned to Beijing. In the winter of the same year, he was appointed counsellor of the Government Affairs Council of the Central People's government. In 1953, he took part in the founding of the Chinese Buddhist Association, and was elected as the standing director of the association. He was appointed counsellor of the State Council in 1954. He once served as the convener of the Counselor's study group and actively organized the counselors to study, publicize and implement the party's line, principles and policies. As a personage without party affiliation, he supports the Communist Party of China and socialism.

After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Mr. Li Yiping supported the party's economic construction as the center, adhering to the four cardinal principles and the basic line of reform and opening up. In his early years, regardless of his height and weakness, he insisted on going out for investigation and research, and put forward useful opinions and suggestions on the major policies of the party and the government and issues of concern to the people. He supported the principle of "peaceful reunification and one country, two systems" and earnestly hoped that Taiwan would return to the motherland as soon as possible. He has done a lot of work for this purpose. He once proposed to the relevant departments of the central government on the construction of a famous cultural celebrity cemetery at home and abroad, and personally implemented it, contributing to the protection of national cultural relics.

At five o'clock on December 1, 1991, Mr. Li Yiping died at the Beijing hospital at the age of 87.

In the life of Comrade Li Yiping, the counsellor's office of the State Council praised Mr. Li Yiping's lofty moral style and the noble integrity of a patriotic intellectual. "Mr. Li Yiping has been in the same boat with the Communist Party of China over the past few decades. He is a sincere friend and an admonitory friend of the party. He studied Confucianism and Buddhism all his life. He was deeply loved and respected. He has made great contributions to China's socialist construction and the great cause of the reunification of the motherland. "

Counselor's letter

In 1956, according to the principle of "letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend", 18 State Council counsellors, including Li Yiping, Liao Hua, Li Zhonggong, Yu Suixin, Li Qizhong, Lin Zhijun, Hu gongmian, Shu zongliu, Wan baobang, Xu Xingzhi, Wang zhuoran, Zhang Zhixing, fan Puzhai, Chen Xiuhe, Zhang Zhihe, an ruoding, Zuo zonglun and Zhang Youjiang, jointly reported their work to Premier Zhou Enlai and spoke frankly about the CPC's development There are deviations in the work of the United Front: "our opinions are as follows: we should earnestly check the style of work of the united front and correct the deviation; we should contact non party personages in various ways and go deep into the reality, and it is easy to hear the truth from heart to heart in individual interviews, rather than the" official voice "on the table; we should be more active and in fact inspire people to open up a new trend; we should really carry out criticism and self-criticism and listen to opinions If there is a mistake, admit it. " The report hopes to solve these problems in a timely manner so as to remove the concerns of the people concerned. This is the famous "Eighteen Counsellors' letters" at that time.

According to the opinions of the counsellors of the State Council, the Party Central Committee and the State Council have comprehensively inspected the internal and external relations of the party nationwide, and the State Council has also begun to improve the political and living treatment of counsellors. When the plenary session of the State Council is in session, the counsellor's office is allowed to send three representatives to attend the meeting as nonvoting delegates, the counsellors of the State Council are allowed to attend the plenary session of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference as nonvoting delegates, and the counsellors of the State Council are allowed to take turns to attend some large-scale receptions and banquets held. On the national day of that year, all the counsellors were invited to Tiananmen Square to attend the National Day ceremony with Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and other party and state leaders.

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