Wang Ping

Wang Ping

Wang Ping (October 12, 1907 - February 8, 1998), a native of dahudi village, Dongyuan, Wangying Town, Yangxin County, Hubei Province, was a proletarian revolutionist and militarist. His original name was Wang Weiyun and later changed to Wang Ping. He joined the Red Army of workers and peasants in May 1930 and the Communist Party of China in September of the same year. He was awarded the rank of general in 1955. He is a member of the second and third National Defense Commission, a member of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress, and a member of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

At 16:42 on February 8, 1998, Comrade Wang Ping, former standing member of the Advisory Committee of the CPC Central Committee, former standing member and Deputy Secretary General of the Central Military Commission, and former political member of the General Logistics Department of the Chinese people's Liberation Army, died in Beijing at the age of 91.

Life of the characters

Wang Ping was born in October 1907 in Yangxin County, Hubei Province. He joined the peasant association in 1926, the Red Army of workers and peasants in 1930, and the Communist Party of China in the same year. during the Agrarian Revolutionary War, he served as political commissar of the teaching brigade of the third division of the Red Army, director of the Political Department of the 16th regiment of the Sixth Division, political commissar of the 11th regiment of the fourth division, political commissar of the 11th regiment of the second column of the Shaanxi Gansu detachment, deputy director of the political department and chief of the organization section of the fourth division of the first Red Army, and political commissar of the 27th Red Army, and participated in the long march. during the Anti Japanese War, he served as the chief of the organization section of the Organization Department of the Political Department of the Eighth Route Army, the head of the military department of the CPC Shanxi Chahar Hebei provisional provincial Party committee and the director and county head of the Fuping County Sports Committee, the political commissar and director of the Political Department of the Third Army division of the Shanxi Chahar Hebei military region, and the Secretary of the CPC prefectural committee, the political commissar of the Jizhong military region, the political commissar and director of the Political Department of the Hebei Shanxi military region, and the Secretary of the Party committee. during the war of liberation, he served as the second political commissar and first column political commissar of Beiyue military region, commander of Beiyue military region and commander of Chahar military region. after the founding of the people's Republic of China, he served as commander of Chahar military region, first vice chairman of Chahar Provincial People's government and director of public security department, deputy chief of staff and director of cadre Department of North China military region, director of mobilization Department of general staff of the Chinese people's Liberation Army, political commissar of the 20th corps of the Chinese people's Volunteer Army, vice political commissar and director and political commissar of Political Department of the Chinese people's Liberation Army Political commissar of military academy, artillery political commissar, first political commissar of Wuhan military region. He was awarded the rank of general in 1955. He is a member of the second and third National Defense Commission, a member of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress, and a member of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. At 16:42 on February 8, 1998, Comrade Wang Ping, former standing member of the Advisory Committee of the CPC Central Committee, former standing member and Deputy Secretary General of the Central Military Commission, and former political member of the General Logistics Department of the Chinese people's Liberation Army, died in Beijing at the age of 91.

Main achievements

Fighting style

Brave and tenacious

during the period of the Red Army, Wang Ping served as a political commissar of the red 11th regiment for a long time. He attached great importance to educating officers and soldiers with revolutionary ideology and stimulating their revolutionary heroism. Under his leadership, the red 101 regiment dares to fight evil, dangerous and tough battles, is good at long-distance attacks and continuous operations, and has repeatedly inflicted heavy losses on the enemy in the anti "encirclement and suppression" operations. In the fifth counter campaign against "encirclement and suppression" in Guangchang, the enemy, relying on their superior forces, compressed the Red Army into the city of Guangchang, broke through the Red Army's defensive positions and rushed to the front of the Red Army headquarters. At this critical moment, the red 11th regiment, as the reserve of the third Red Army, was ordered to fight back against the enemy. Wang Ping led the troops to fight bravely against the enemy's repeated bombing and strafing. When most of the comrades in the two battalions of the army died and there were only 20 or 30 men left in the company on average, he took the lead and commanded the army to fight tenaciously. Finally, he repelled the enemy's rampant attack and safeguarded the Red Army headquarters. After the war, Peng Dehuai, head of the army, praised and said: "this is the highest manifestation of the political and ideological consciousness of the Red Army and the result of the high degree of political work." During the Long March, the red 101st regiment served as the vanguard or guard of the third Red Army and took part in such famous battles as the capture of Loushanguan and Sidu Chishui. In the Zunyi battle to defend the Party Central Committee, hundreds of thousands of enemy troops besieged, pursued and intercepted the main force of the Red Army, forming a three sided besieged situation. At that time, the situation was very critical. When commander-in-chief Zhu De assigned a combat mission, he said, "the central authorities are in the city, and the Wujiang River is behind them. This is a backwater battle. We must fight well. If the enemy enters the city, the Red Army will get water from the Wujiang River.". In order to protect the safety of the Party Central Committee, Wang Ping, together with the leaders of other regiments, led the troops and fought fiercely for several days. With the cooperation and support of the friendly and neighboring troops, he defeated a brigade of the enemy and contributed to the first big victory on the long march.

He is good at commanding and has made outstanding contributions

during the Anti Japanese War, Wang Ping participated in the hard work of opening up, establishing, consolidating and developing the Anti Japanese base area behind the enemy in Shanxi, Chahar and Hebei, and was praised by Nie Rongzhen many times. In 1937, just two months after Wang Ping arrived in Fuping, he organized thousands of Anti Japanese volunteers. During the period of serving as the political commissar of the third military division of the Shanxi Hebei Chahar military region and the political commissar of the central Hebei military region, through uniting, striving for, incorporating and transforming the civilian Anti Japanese armed forces, he delivered more than ten regiments of troops to the main force of the Eighth Route army. In 1944, he led his troops to march into Yanbei and Suidong, opened up a new base to the north of pingsui Road, opened the channel from Yan'an to northeast, and made contributions to the establishment of northeast strategic base. During the war of liberation, he took part in the command of important battles in the Qingfengdian campaign, Shijiazhuang campaign and Pingjin campaign, and successfully completed the combat tasks. In the battle of Qingfengdian, Wang Ping's troops fought in blood for two days and nights, blocking and holding the enemy, creating a fighter plane for encircling and annihilating the main Third Army of the Kuomintang. This was the first big victory of the Shanxi Chahar Hebei army after it turned into a strategic offensive. Wang Ping is good at judging the situation and flexibly using military and political means to attack the enemy. In the battle of liberating Datong, in view of the superiority of the defensive forces and equipment, while commanding the troops to resolutely attack the enemy who is trying to break through the encirclement, they cleverly divided the upper level relations of the enemy, launched a strong political offensive, shaken the morale of the enemy, disintegrated their morale, and forced more than 17000 defenders to surrender. In the war of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea, in order to fight against the arrogance of the enemy and promote the early realization of peace, he and commander Yang Yong seized the opportunity to launch the last battle of the volunteers after they went to Korea, the Jincheng battle (Jincheng counterattack). They fought fiercely for 14 days and nights, recovered 160 square kilometers of land, pushed the front southward for 3 to 6 kilometers, and forced the enemy to sign the armistice agreement. This campaign has become a typical example of a large-scale positional offensive in the history of the PLA.

Respect objective reality and pay attention to investigation and research

In August 1937, Wang Ping was appointed political commissar of Jizhong military region. On the first day of taking office, the Political Department of Jizhong military region reported the list of 28 so-called "Trotskyists" and "traitors" to be shot the next day. With so many people involved, Wang Ping did not approve it rashly. Instead, he reviewed it one by one overnight. As a result, he found that the "charges" he had set were not true. So he resolutely ordered that all the people be exempted from death penalty and dealt with them realistically. During the period of working in the military academy, in order to further adapt to the needs of the development of the PLA from the lower stage to the higher stage, go deep into the front line of teaching, carefully listen to the opinions and suggestions of teachers and students, and put forward some important ideas. For example, he stressed that in teaching and academic research, we must unswervingly implement Mao Zedong's military thought, oppose dogmatism and empiricism, absorb advanced experience of foreign forces, study opponent's operational theory, study and summarize our military's operational experience from the perspective of development, and explore the strategic tactics and political work rules of joint operations of various arms under modern conditions, so as to promote the development of our military Improve the students' Ideological and political level, military theory literacy and organization and command ability. This has a positive impact on adhering to the correct direction of running a school, improving the quality of teaching, and training more and better middle and senior military personnel for military construction.

Stick to the truth and set things right

In 1975, after returning to work, Wang Ping successively held major leading positions in the artillery of the CMC, the Wuhan military region and the General Logistics Department. According to the instructions of Comrade Ye Jianying and Comrade Deng Xiaoping, he ruled out the serious interference and destruction of Lin Biao and the gang of four, risked being overthrown again, rectified the style and discipline of the army, and implemented the cadre policy. When he worked in artillery, he combated unjust, false and wrong cases with great vigour. In just five months, he restored the reputation of 287 comrades and arranged work for them. While working in Wuhan military region, when the gang of four was involved in the army, he and Yang Dezhi resolutely implemented the spirit of the enlarged meeting of the Military Commission, paid close attention to the overall rectification of the army, reorganized the "soft, lazy and scattered" team, adjusted the "arrogant, extravagant and lazy" cadres, seriously solved the problem of style and discipline of the army, and took positive measures to maintain the stability of the army. In December 1977, Comrade Wang Ping was transferred to the General Logistics Department as a political commissar and the first Secretary of the Party committee. At that time, the General Logistics Department was a "disaster area" destroyed by Lin Biao and the gang of four. He conscientiously implemented the spirit of Comrade Deng Xiaoping's instructions on solving the problem of the General Logistics Department, removed all obstacles, and "criticized and investigated" the crimes of Lin Biao and the gang of four. Together with Zhang Zhen, who was then the Minister of the General Logistics Department, he made great efforts to implement the party's cadre policy, overturned 113 cases of fake groups, and held a 10000 people meeting in the capital gymnasium to rehabilitate 2700 cadres and the masses.

Summing up experience and participating in national defense and army building

In 1955, when he was the director of the mobilization Department of the general staff, he actively carried out research and demonstration on the law and legalization of national defense mobilization. Starting from China's national conditions, he inherited the tradition of people's war and drew on the experience of other countries, especially the former Soviet Union, to organize the national defense mobilization

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