Wang Fang
Wang Fang
Wang Fang (September 30, 1920 - November 4, 2009), formerly known as Wang Chunfang, was born in Dongdu Town, Xintai City, Shandong Province. He took part in revolutionary work in October 1937 and joined the Communist Party of China in April 1938. He is an excellent member of the Communist Party of China, a long tested and loyal communist fighter, a proletarian revolutionist, and an outstanding leader in the political and legal front of public security in China. He was a member of the 12th CPC Central Committee, member of the Central Advisory Committee, state councilor, Secretary of the Party group and Minister of the Ministry of public security.
On September 29, 2020, the symposium to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Wang Fang's birth was held in Beijing. Han Zheng, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice premier of the State Council, attended the forum. The meeting commemorates the 100th anniversary of Comrade Wang Fang's birth, deeply remembers his extraordinary life course and brilliant achievements, and recalls and studies his lofty pursuit and spiritual style of unremitting struggle for Chinese revolution, construction, reform and public security political and legal cause.
Life of the characters
Comrade Wang Fang was born on September 30, 1920 in a peasant family in Xintai County, Shandong Province, formerly known as Wang Chunfang. From his youth, he was dissatisfied with the dark rule, corruption and incompetence of the Kuomintang, and hated the invasion of Japanese imperialism. In October 1937, when he was a substitute teacher in his hometown, influenced by the progressive thought, he actively participated in the Anti Japanese and national salvation activities and took part in the revolutionary work. At the beginning of 1938, he led 12 young people to join the fourth detachment of Shandong people's Anti Japanese guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, and joined the Communist Party of China in April of the same year. In June 1938, he went south with his troops to Mengyin and Yishui of Shandong Province to open up a new revolutionary base, and successively served as platoon leader, platoon political instructor and company commander. In August of the same year, he served as special political Commissioner of the mission. In December, after the establishment of the Shandong column of the Eighth Route Army, he successively served as the chief of the security section of the fourth detachment and the director of the military tribunal, and the chief of the security section of the first brigade and the chief of the enemy engineering section. In the struggle against "mopping up" and "suppression", he resolutely carried out the instructions of his superiors, combined tit for tat political offensive with armed struggle, resolutely smashed the enemy's plot, and made contributions to consolidating and expanding Yimeng base area. After the establishment of the central Shandong military region in August 1942, he served as the chief of the enemy engineering section of the central Shandong military region and vice minister of the enemy Engineering Department of the three prefectural committees of the central Shandong Party committee. He led a group of outstanding enemy engineering cadres to go deep into the enemy occupied areas for many times to collect intelligence, publicize the Anti Japanese War, organize counter-measures and develop forces, and did a lot of work to cooperate with our military offensive. In October 1944, he went to the Party School of Shandong Branch of the CPC Central Committee to study. In June 1945, he served as the director of the Political Department of the independent brigade of Shandong military region. In May 1946, he was transferred to the head of the Security Department of central Shandong military region. After March 1947, he successively served as the director of Organization Department and Security Department of the eighth column of the third field army, and the director of Security Department of the Western Front corps and the seventh corps of the East China Field Army. In accordance with the strategic policy of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on opening up the liberated areas in the Central Plains, he moved to the southwest of Shandong, advanced into Henan, Anhui and the Soviet Union, and fought bravely to successfully destroy the enemy's defense system in the Central Plains.
Before and after the founding of new China, Comrade Wang Fang shifted the focus of his work from the battlefield filled with gunpowder to the front line of public security to protect the regime. He successively served as vice minister of public security of Hangzhou military control commission, deputy director and director of Hangzhou Public Security Bureau, and deputy director of Zhejiang public security department. In November 1952, he served as the director of the Public Security Department of Zhejiang Province. Since September 1954, he has concurrently served as the deputy director of the political and Law Commission of Zhejiang Province, the director of the first office of the provincial people's Committee, and a member of the provincial Party committee. He resolutely carried out the instructions of the Party Central Committee and the provincial Party committee, actively carried out the anti traitor work, and vigorously strengthened the covert front struggle. He resolutely carried out the party's security work policy and excellently completed the security tasks of the leading comrades of the Central Committee and important meetings of the Central Committee. He attached great importance to the construction of the provincial public security team and laid a solid foundation for the stable development of the public security work in Zhejiang Province. In September 1964, Comrade Wang Fang was appointed vice governor of Zhejiang Province. In August 1965, he acted as the Secretary of Wenzhou prefectural committee of the CPC. He actively participated in the pilot work of the socialist education movement, actively explored the objective law of the development of production, and took effective measures to make the local economy develop steadily.
During the "Cultural Revolution", Comrade Wang Fang was persecuted, imprisoned and censored for many years, and suffered serious physical and mental damage. However, he always maintained his firm belief in the party and communism and the political quality of Communists. After returning to work in 1977, he became more active in working for the party. He successively served as secretary of the CPC Ningbo prefectural committee, director of the Ningbo regional Revolutionary Committee and the first Secretary of the CPC Ningbo Municipal Committee, director of the Ningbo Municipal Revolutionary Committee, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee, deputy director of the provincial Revolutionary Committee, deputy secretary of the provincial Party committee and Secretary General of the Standing Committee of the provincial people's Congress. During the trial of Lin Biao and Jiang Qing, Comrade Wang Fang was transferred to the Central Committee. He led the comrades of the investigation team to work day and night, found out the criminal facts and important evidence of the principal criminals of the Jiangqing counter revolutionary group, and served as the procurator of the special procuratorial Office of the Supreme People's Procuratorate to appear in court for public prosecution, contributing to the smooth progress of the trial of the "two cases".
After the "two cases" trial, Comrade Wang Fang returned to work in Zhejiang Province. In March 1983, he served as the Secretary of the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee and the first political member of the Zhejiang military region in May of the same year. He resolutely implemented the line, principles and policies since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, vigorously promoted the reform of local Party committees and government institutions, and vigorously strengthened the party's self construction in accordance with the relevant requirements of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He put forward the working idea of "clearing the" left "systematically, breaking through constantly, being bold in realism, and making bold innovations", and further corrected and clarified the guiding ideology of the work of the provincial Party committee. He adhered to the party's ideological line of emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts, combined the principles and policies of the Party Central Committee with the actual situation of Zhejiang Province, and unified the thoughts of leading cadres at all levels into reform, opening up and economic construction. He actively encouraged and promoted the "Wenzhou model" and constantly improved the construction and investment environment. At the same time, efforts should be made to promote the all-round development of rural economy driven by township enterprises, so that the economy of Zhejiang Province can achieve rapid development and quickly jump to the forefront of the country.
Comrade Wang Fang has done a lot of pioneering work in the front of public security politics and law, and made great contributions to the development of public security politics and law. In March 1987, he was transferred to be Secretary of the Party group of the Ministry of public security. In April of the same year, he was Minister of the Ministry of public security. In May, he also served as the first political member and Secretary of the Party committee of the armed police force and member of the political and Legal Committee of the CPC Central Committee. In April 1988, he served as state councilor, Secretary of the Party group and Minister of the Ministry of public security. In December 1990, he also served as the director of the National Drug Control Commission. He conscientiously implemented the principles and policies of the Party Central Committee on public security work. Under the correct leadership of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, he adhered to the principle of combining special work with mass work, actively explored new ideas and new methods for public security work under the new situation, and did a lot of fruitful work for maintaining social stability. During this period, according to the deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, we comprehensively promoted the implementation of the resident identity card system, so as to put the management of the resident identity card on the right track; fully deployed the drug control work, vigorously carried out international cooperation in the field of drug control, effectively curbed the spread of drug-related crimes; actively promoted the formulation of the "people's police law" and the establishment of the people's police rank system, and so on It plays an important role in improving the construction of the people's police force. He firmly upheld the socialist legal system and led the handling of many emergencies. In March 1991, Comrade Wang Fang served as deputy director of the Central Committee for the comprehensive management of public security. He actively participated in the study, put forward the principles, policies and major measures for the comprehensive management of social security, and seriously deployed and supervised the implementation.
In August 1993, Comrade Wang Fang retired to the second tier. As always, he was concerned about the construction of the party and the country, the development of public security, and actively offered suggestions and suggestions for the promotion of reform and opening up, public security work, and the construction of public security team. As the president of the Chinese volunteer foundation and the honorary president of the Chinese Police Association, he actively participated in various social activities and contributed to carrying forward the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, promoting social integrity and carrying out theoretical research on public security.
On November 4, 2009, Comrade Wang Fang died of illness in Hangzhou at the age of 90.
Comrade Wang Fang is a member of the 12th CPC Central Committee. He was elected to the Central Advisory Committee at the 13th CPC National Congress.
Main works
Memoirs of Wang Fang, written by Wang Fang, published by Zhejiang People's Publishing House in September 2006.
Character evaluation
Comrade Wang Fang devoted all his life to the cause of the party and the people in his revolutionary career of more than 70 years. His outstanding achievements are deeply engraved in our hearts. His firm ideals and beliefs, lofty spiritual quality and excellent work style are always worthy of our admiration and memory, and are always worthy of our learning and development.
In commemoration of Comrade Wang Fang, we want to learn from him that he firmly sets his ideals, firmly believes, and always maintains his political character of loyalty to the party. In his revolutionary career, no matter how dangerous the environment is and how difficult the situation is, Comrade Wang Fang always sticks to his lofty ideal pursuit and firm revolutionary belief, which shows the spiritual demeanor that the revolutionary ideal is higher than heaven. During the Anti Japanese War, he was not afraid of life and death, went deep into the enemy area, rescued his comrades in arms, established an intelligence station, and plotted against the enemy battalion commander. After the founding of new China, Chairman Mao Zedong visited Hangzhou more than 40 times, and Comrade Wang Fang was directly in charge of security work 38 times. During the "Cultural Revolution", he was escorted to Beijing by a special plane named by Jiang Qing for the detection of the incident of "exposing Jiang Qing's anonymous letter" by hand. He was under armed custody for seven years. However, he always adhered to the principle and fought with Lin Biao and Jiang Qing's counter revolutionary group uncompromisingly
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