Lin Zhong

Lin Zhong

In his early years, Lin Zhong was the chief editor of red flag, the organ newspaper of Fujian provincial Party committee, and an observer of the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, he successively served as the director of the Propaganda Department of the Political Department of the Northeast Air Force and the president of the air force guard newspaper.

brief introduction

Lin Zhong was born in 1906 in Fuzhou, Fujian Province. His former name was Lin Qiduo. In his early years, he was the chief editor of red flag, the organ newspaper of Fujian provincial Party committee, and an observer of the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, he successively served as the director of the Propaganda Department of the Political Department of the Northeast Air Force and the president of the air force Guardian newspaper, the executive director and Deputy Secretary General of the Red Cross Society of China in Beijing, the director of the social science information Research Office of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the vice president of Jiangxi Communist University, and the consultant of the Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences and the honorary chairman of the returned overseas Chinese Association of the Philippines in Guangzhou after the cultural revolution. The characters of the same name are martyrs and supervisors in Qing Dynasty.

Early experience

In the autumn of 1924, he graduated from Shanghai Zhonghua Vocational School and took part in the progressive student movement. In 1926, he studied in Guangzhou Sun Yat sen University and joined the Communist Party of China. He was once a member of the overseas revolutionary movement group of the CPC Guangdong and Guangxi Regional Committee, and was appointed by Chen Yannian, the leader of the CPC Guangdong and Guangxi Regional Committee, to participate in the work of the provincial and Hong Kong strike committee. In the winter of the same year, he was sent by the CPC Guangdong and Guangxi Provincial Committee to study at Sun Yat sen University in Moscow, the Soviet Union. After graduation in 1928, he was selected by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (Bolshevik) to be the instructor of Oriental workers' cultural work in Boli gold mine, Siberia. In 1930, Zhou Enlai decided to go back to China and engage in the workers' movement in Shanghai. In 1931, he was transferred to Fujian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and served as the chief editor of red flag. In 1931 and 1933, he was arrested and jailed by the KMT twice. He resolutely refused to reveal his identity and was released on bail. After being released from prison, he went to the Philippines, Indonesia and other places to use various public identities to engage in patriotic and national salvation work.

After the outbreak of the national anti Japanese War

In October 1937, he came to Yan'an and successively served as the compiler of Xinhua news agency, the teacher of Chinese people's Anti Japanese military and Political University, the dean of Northern Shaanxi public school, the Secretary director of the Eighth Route Army fund-raising committee, the compiler of Marxist Leninist works of the Central Propaganda Department, the head of the training group of the Central Organization Department, and the researcher of Marxist Leninist college. He has been a member of the overseas work committee of the CPC Central Committee since December 1941. In 1942, he was transferred to the Central Intelligence Department as the leader of the British and American team of the fourth room. In the same year, he served as the Deputy instructor of the central research class on overseas work. From April to June 1945, he attended the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

During the war of Liberation

In January 1946, he was transferred to the translation section chief of the executive department of the Beiping military Mediation Office. In July, he served as the business director of the Shanghai Office of the relief association of the liberated area. In May 1947, he served as the acting director of the Shanghai Office of the General Administration of rehabilitation and relief of the executive yuan of the Kuomintang government of the relief association of the Chinese people's liberation area. In the winter of the same year, he transferred to Hong Kong to work as the head of the secretary group of the office. In May 1949, he served as Deputy Secretary General of the Chinese people's Relief Association. Under the direct leadership of Zhou Enlai and Dong Biwu, they fought for the material assistance of international progressive forces to the Chinese revolution, and exposed the false peace talks and the real civil war conspiracy between the United States and Chiang Kai Shek. Since the founding of the people's Republic of China, he has been engaged in cultural education, health and theoretical research. In the winter of 1950, he participated in the work of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea, served as the director of the Propaganda Department of the Political Department of the Northeast Air Force, and concurrently served as the president of the air force Guardian newspaper. He returned to Beijing in the winter of 1951 to serve as executive director and Deputy Secretary General of the Red Cross Society of China. In 1955, he was transferred to the director of the International Liaison Office of the Ministry of health. In 1957, he was transferred to director of the Social Science Information Research Office of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 1959, he was transferred to vice president of Jiangxi Communist University. In 1964, he was transferred to be Deputy Secretary General of the leading group for theoretical work of the Central South Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. During the "Cultural Revolution", the May 7th cadre school was devolved to work. After 1973, he returned to work as a consultant of Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences and honorary chairman of Guangzhou returned overseas Chinese Association of the Philippines. Member of the fourth CPPCC Guangdong Provincial Committee and member of the Standing Committee of the fifth Guangdong Provincial People's Congress. He died of illness in Guangzhou on October 3, 1990.

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