Lu Ping

Lu Ping

Lu Ping (1914-2002), male, formerly known as Liu Zhixian, also known as Lu Di, was born in Changchun, Jilin Province. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1933 and studied in the Department of education of Peking University from 1934 to 1937. From October 1957 to March 1960, he was vice president of Peking University and the first Secretary of the Party committee of Peking University since November 1957. From March 1960 to June 1966, he concurrently served as president.

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Lu Ping joined the Communist Youth League of China in February 1933 and the Communist Party of China in the same year. He took an active part in the revolutionary movement and took part in the "12.9" movement when he was a student. He once served as director of the Organization Department of the national corps of the vanguard of the Chinese national liberation, director of the Political Department of the Shanxi Chahar military region, and director of the Political Department of the third column of the North China Field Army. After liberation, he served as party secretary, vice president and President of Peking University in October 1957. During his leadership at Peking University, he attached great importance to improving the quality of teaching and the level of teachers, and respected and cherished intellectuals. He presided over the comprehensive revision of the teaching plan, added more than 10 subjects such as biology, physics, computing technology and Spanish, and created several science teaching bases such as the Ming Tombs. He attached great importance to and strengthened the teaching of basic theory, basic knowledge and professional skills, and set out to establish the Affiliated Middle School of Peking University. He has organized and carried out more than ten frontier scientific researches such as insulin and microelectronics. He reformed teaching methods and realized the joint scientific research cooperation between Peking University and Tsinghua University. He also led the formulation of the ten-year natural science development program of Peking University and identified key scientific research projects and disciplines. He resisted the wrong line and trend of thought of the "left" as much as he could, and clearly opposed the formulation of "bourgeois intellectuals". With his efforts, Peking University has developed a group of Party members of professors and made a group of backbone intellectuals enter leading positions.

Lu Ping was open and aboveboard all his life, seeking truth from facts, solid in work, close to the masses, honest and upright, and never greedy for personal fame and wealth. He once served as executive member of student union of Peking University, leader of North China team of Chinese people's Liberation vanguard, Secretary of Youth Committee of Shanxi Chahar Hebei North Branch of CPC Central Committee, Secretary of Pingbei prefectural committee of CPC, and Secretary of Youth Committee of North China Bureau of CPC Central Committee. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, he successively served as member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Youth League and Minister of the Ministry of youth industry, Vice Minister of the Ministry of railways, Secretary of the Party committee and President of Peking University, President of China Romania Friendship Association, vice Minister of the seventh Ministry of machinery industry, and Deputy Secretary General of the sixth CPPCC National Committee. He is a deputy to the second and third National People's Congress, a deputy to the first National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, and a member of the Standing Committee of the sixth and Seventh National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference.

He died in Beijing on November 28, 2002 at the age of 88.

Character experience

February 1933

He joined the Communist Youth League of China and became a full member of the Communist Party of China at the end of February of the same year.

February 1933

He has successively served as publicity member of Yongji City (now Jilin City) Committee of the Communist Youth League, Secretary of the West District Party committee of Jilin City, Secretary of Hebei Mutual Aid Association, executive member of student union of Peking University, and member of Standing Committee of Beiping Federation of students. During the Anti Japanese War, he successively served as the director of the Organization Department of the national headquarters of the vanguard of the Chinese national liberation team, the leader of the North China team, the Secretary of the Youth Work Committee of the Shanxi Chahar Hebei Branch of the northern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, the Secretary General of the Party committee of jichareliao District of the CPC, the Standing Committee member and propaganda department director of the Pingxi prefectural committee of Shanxi Chahar Hebei, the deputy secretary and Secretary of the Pingbei prefectural committee, and the political commissar of the military division. During the liberation war, he successively served as the director of the Political Department of the Shanxi Chahar military region, the director of the Political Department of the Chahar military region, and the director of the Political Department of the third column of the North China Field Army.

1948-1952

He has successively served as secretary of the Youth Work Committee of the North China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the New Democratic Youth League, Minister of the Youth Work Department, director of the Political Department of the Ministry of railways, Secretary of the National Railway Work Committee of the New Democratic Youth League, member of the Party committee of the Ministry of railways, and member of the Party committee of state organs.

December 1952

He served as director and Secretary of the Party committee of Harbin Railway Administration Bureau (formerly under the jurisdiction of Zhongchang railway), member of the Standing Committee of Songjiang Provincial Committee of the CPC and member of Heilongjiang Provincial Committee.

October 1954

Vice Minister of the Ministry of Railways and member of the Party group of the Ministry of railways.

October 1957

He was transferred to Peking University as secretary of the Party committee, vice president and President, and member of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China. During the "Cultural Revolution", he was falsely accused and persecuted, and was removed from all posts inside and outside the party.

July 1975

He was appointed Vice Minister of the seventh Ministry of machinery industry (later changed to the Ministry of Aerospace) and Deputy Secretary of the Party group of the Ministry.

June 1983

He has successively served as member and Deputy Secretary General of the Standing Committee of the sixth CPPCC National Committee, deputy secretary of the Party group of the organ, member of the Standing Committee of the seventh CPPCC National Committee and deputy director of the education and Culture Committee.

1995

Leave to recuperate.

Achievements in teaching and research

In January 1961, after the impact of "left" such as the great leap forward and anti right deviation, the Ninth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the CPC Central Committee approved the eight character policy of "adjusting, consolidating, enriching and improving" the national economy. On September 15 of that year, the 60th article of higher education was officially promulgated. Lu Ping took the opportunity of implementing the "60 principles of higher education" to lead the teachers and students of Peking University to adhere to the principle of teaching first, vigorously strengthen the education of intellectual policy and double hundred policy, and straighten out various relations. Peking University ushered in a happy situation of relatively unity, looseness and joint efforts to improve the quality of teaching. Focusing on the goal of building a world-class university, Lu Ping put forward in a speech in 1962: what about Peking University? In the past, we learned from the Soviet Union. Now we should not deny Soviet education just because the Soviet Union has "repaired.". There are still some good things in the higher education of the Soviet Union. For example, they attach importance to the foundation and train a lot of talents. Their satellite has been launched. Do you want to study in British and American universities? Many of China's higher education in the past studied from Britain and the United States. Now the science and technology of Britain and the United States are more advanced than ours. We should also refer to their things. China's old universities have a lot of experience. For example, old Peking University and old Tsinghua University have good things, and they should continue to do so.

To this end, Lu Ping set up an educational intelligence research office in Peking University, translating the teaching plan of Moscow State University in the Soviet Union, University of Cambridge and University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, Harvard University and Harvard University in Japan, and the teaching plan in Japan. It took a lot of courage in the "left" era. Under this idea, Lu Ping organized the revision of the six-year teaching plan of science, emphasizing to lay a good foundation and take the second foreign language English as a compulsory course, so as to train the master's level students with the six-year system.

Lu Ping respects knowledge and attaches importance to the role of experts and professors. As early as 1959, the party organization of Peking University absorbed a group of famous professors such as Zhou Peiyuan, Huang Kun and Duan Xuefu to join the party, and then promoted more than 100 intellectuals to leading positions at all levels of Peking University. With Lu Ping's suggestion and efforts, in March 1962, the State Council once appointed four professors as vice presidents, namely, historian Jian Bozan, chemist Fu Ying, theoretical physicist Wang Zhuxi and linguist Wei Jiangong. In addition to two professors, namely, philosopher Tang Yongtong and physicist Zhou Peiyuan, who have already served as vice presidents, a total of six professors of Arts and science entered the leading group of the University. In order to improve the level of teachers in Peking University, Lu Ping personally formulated the "Interim Measures for the cultivation of teachers in Peking University" in 1963, emphasizing the cultivation of young teachers by relying on the help of old professors.

Attaching importance to scientific research and developing cutting-edge science is the glorious mission of Peking University and another focus of Lu Ping's work. Lu Ping organized science teachers to study together, and soon established a series of emerging disciplines and specialties, such as computer science, aerodynamics, atomic energy physics, radiochemistry, solid state physics, geophysics, biophysics, biochemistry, environmental science, etc., to cultivate urgently needed professionals for the country. Marshal Nie Rongzhen and general Zhang Aiping had personally listened to the report of Peking University's scientific research work. In order to determine the key scientific research projects of Peking University, Lu Ping led relevant science teachers to visit Zhang Jinfu, President of the Academy of Sciences, song renqiong, Minister of the first machinery department, and other leading comrades. In 1963, Lu Ping led Peking University to formulate the outline of natural science research and development plan of Peking University from 1963 to 1972. In 1965, after more than six years of collaborative efforts, the Department of chemistry of Peking University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences finally gave birth to the synthetic crystalline insulin. In 1982, the achievement won the first prize of National Natural Science Award. This achievement and a batch of achievements such as one million times of computer development are full of Lu Ping's painstaking efforts and support.

Lu Ping worked hard to improve the teaching quality of Peking University, dared to play the role of old professors, boldly drew lessons from the experience of foreign famous universities, formulated scientific research plans, transported a number of qualified talents for economic construction, and won the support of teachers and students of Peking University. In the later social education movement and the "Cultural Revolution", it was summed up as "learning from the Soviet Union, referring to the United States and the United States, continuing to learn from the Imperial College", "Professor governance", "intellectual education first", which was criticized as Lu Ping's revisionist Education line.

World evaluation

Lu Ping attached great importance to teaching, to improving the quality of teaching and the level of teachers, and to respecting and loving intellectuals. He presided over the comprehensive revision of the teaching plan, added more than 10 professional disciplines such as biology, physics, computing technology, acoustics, Spanish, and created several science teaching bases such as the Ming Tombs. He attached great importance to and strengthened the teaching of basic theory, basic knowledge and professional skills. He started to establish the Affiliated High School of Peking University, and organized and carried out more than ten frontier scientific researches such as insulin and microelectronics. He reformed teaching methods and realized the joint scientific research cooperation between Tsinghua University and Peking University. He also led the formulation of the ten-year natural science development program of Peking University and identified key scientific research projects and disciplines. He resisted the "left" wrong line and wrong trend of thought to the best of his ability and made it clear not to mention it again“

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