Liu Bin

Liu Bin

Liu Bin (1912-april 21, 1989), the founding major general of the people's Republic of China, was born in Fengshi village, Lanxi Town, Shanghang County, Fujian Province. He joined the peasant uprising team in 1928, joined the Red Army in West Fujian in 1929, joined the Communist Youth League of China in the same year, and transferred to the Communist Party of China in 1931. He participated in the agrarian revolution, the war of resistance against Japan and the war of liberation.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, he served as Minister of the Military Transportation Department of the North China military region. He was awarded the rank of major general in 1955. On April 21, 1989, he died of illness in Beijing at the age of 77.

Life of the characters

Early experience

Liu Bin was born into a peasant family. He entered a private school at the age of 6, dropped out of school at the age of 8 due to his poor family, and became a teacher and preacher at the age of 13.

In 1928, led by his younger brother Liu Sichun, Liu Bin joined the riot team and later became the Red Guard.

Period of Agrarian Revolution

In September 1929, after the Fourth Red Army and local armed forces conquered Shanghang City, Liu Bin joined the Communist Youth League at Chengguan to clean up the hidden counter revolution.

In March 1930, after the establishment of the Western Fujian Soviet government, it was incorporated into the Western Fujian Red Army with the red guards. In May of the same year, it was incorporated into the fifth detachment of the second column of the second Red Army as a soldier. After that, he took part in the battle against Wenjia City, Hunan Province, Changsha City and Ji'an City, Jiangxi Province. Because of the courageous and outstanding performance, they were absorbed into the Communist Party of China and later became the military headquarters of the Fourth Army.

In May 1931, he was transferred to the headquarters of the first Red Army Corps to engage in confidential work. Under the training and education of Zhou Enlai, Ren Bishi and other leading comrades, we have established a good style of hard work, seriousness, conscientiousness, and strict discipline. Therefore, in a relatively short period of time, our cultural and professional level has been greatly improved.

In January 1932, the first Red Army set up the confidential section as a translator. Then, with the troops moving to the west of Fujian and the south of Jiangxi, they successively took part in five anti "encirclement and suppression" battles against Zhangzhou and the Central Soviet area.

In the autumn of 1934, the Long March began with the first Red Army. During this period, there were many telegrams, many of which were drafted by Mao Zedong and other leaders themselves. In this case, he often stayed by the machine all night, nervously sending and receiving, translating, editing and sending messages. Sleepy, want to sleep, eat pepper refreshing, keep communication day and night smooth, get the Legion leader praise.

In June 1935, after the first and fourth front armies of the red army joined forces in MaoGong, Liu transferred them to the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army. In August of the same year, he was transferred back to the headquarters of the first Red Army as the operational staff and chief of the confidential section.

the period of Counter-Japanese War

In August 1937, after the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, he served as the chief of the confidential section of the headquarters of the 115th division of the Eighth Route Army, and was responsible for the formation of the communications unit of the Shanxi Chahar Hebei military region. In November of the same year, the Shanxi Chahar Hebei military region was established in Wutai Mountain. Liu served as the chief of communication section and commander of communication battalion. More than 20 professional training courses for telephone operators, radio announcers and radio technicians have been held, and telephone brigade, radio station team and communication team have been built. In order to meet the needs of wartime, we actively carried out the construction of communication facilities, set up concealed telephone lines and double lines, built circuitous multi-channel communication lines, and built a complete and effective command and communication network of the military region.

In August 1944, the independent regiment of the second brigade of the Shaanxi Gansu Ningxia border region was appointed as the deputy head and acting head of the regiment. They successively participated in the Pingxingguan campaign and the hundred regiments war.

In August 1945, he served as the communication chief of Shanxi Chahar Hebei military region.

During the war of Liberation

Since 1946, he has served successively as deputy chief of staff and commander of logistics headquarters of Jijin, Beiyue and Chahar military regions, chief of staff and commander of logistics, etc. During this period, he took part in the battles of pinghan, Zhengtai, Suiyuan and the liberation of Zhangjiakou, and made great contributions to the victory of the liberation war.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China

After the founding of new China, he was ordered to lead the Ministry to take part in the encirclement and suppression of bandits and support local production development.

In April 1951, he served as the Minister of military transportation of the North China military region, and in August, he served as the chief of staff of the Chahar military region.

In July 1952, he studied in the advanced accelerated Department of the Military Academy of the Chinese people's Liberation Army in Nanjing.

After graduating in March 1953, he went to the Inner Mongolia Military Region as the third deputy commander.

In the autumn of 1962, when he returned to his hometown to visit his relatives, he repeatedly taught the local party and government leaders and the people in his hometown that they should have the confidence and determination to overcome difficulties, and strive to do a good job in agricultural and sideline production to tide over the difficulties together. The leader of the commune bought some daily necessities for his younger sister. He returned all the money and said, "the public money can't be used." In the "Cultural Revolution", although he was in a difficult situation, he tried his best to protect the persecuted cadres and their children in order to maintain the stability of the army and maintain national unity. In his life, Liu Bin was strict with himself, lenient to others, diligent and thrifty, honest all his life, and always maintained the fine style of the Communist Party.

In May 1970, when he recovered from a serious illness, he went to serve as the deputy commander of the military region of Hebei Province.

In May 1978, he retired with the approval of the Central Military Commission and enjoyed the treatment of regiment level.

On April 21, 1989, he died in Beijing at the age of 77. The ashes are buried in Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.

Honors

In September 1955, he was awarded the rank of major general, and was awarded the second level 81 medal, the second level independent freedom medal, and the first level Liberation Medal.

In July 1988, he was awarded the first-class Red Star Medal.

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