Du Ping

Du Ping

He was born in 1908 in Wanzai County, Jiangxi Province, a senior political commander of the Chinese people's Liberation Army. Du Ping's calligraphy works have participated in national and military exhibitions for many times and are known as "general calligrapher". In 1982 and 1987, Du Ping was elected to the Advisory Committee of the CPC Central Committee.

At 5:24 on March 4, 1999, Du Ping died in Nanjing at the age of 91.

Life of the characters

Du Ping, the former political commissar of Nanjing Military Region, was born into a poor peasant family in tanglangkeng, Huangmao Town, Wanzai County, Jiangxi Province. He was intelligent and studious in his youth. He completed his studies from primary school to middle school with the help of the public grants he obtained with excellent results, and then he was admitted to Qunzhi school in Changsha, Hunan Province. As early as in middle school, he accepted the idea of progress. In the winter of 1929, he joined the secret peasant association under the leadership of the Communist Party of China in his hometown. In April 1930, he joined the Red Army of Chinese workers and peasants. In June of the same year, he joined the Communist Party of China and began his long revolutionary career in the people's army. during the Agrarian Revolutionary War, he successively served as a member of the propaganda section of the Political Department of the sixth Red Army, chief of the propaganda section of the Political Department of the third column of the third Red Army, leader of the military and political training brigade of the third Red Army, political commissar of the military medical department, political commissar of the health department of the first Red Army Corps, political commissar of the radio team, etc., and participated in the battles against wenjiashi, Changsha, Ji'an, Zhangzhou, Shuikou, etc., as well as the first to the Central Soviet area The fifth anti "encirclement and suppression" campaign and the 20000 kilometer long march. in the initial period of the people's army, in the face of extremely difficult and dangerous environment, he actively publicized the revolution, did fruitful work to boost morale and consolidate the army, and showed his persistent pursuit and bold loyalty to the cause of communism. During the period when he was in charge of the political work of the medical department and the radio team, according to the fact that most of the technical personnel were liberated from the Kuomintang army, he carried out targeted ideological education to help improve their political awareness and make them feel at ease to stay in the Red Army. Later, most of them grew up to be important technical backbones of our army. During the Long March, he led his department to take charge of the communication and liaison support task of the first Red Army Corps. Under the situation of intense fighting, he fully mobilized and relied on the backbone of Party members to overcome all kinds of difficulties and obstacles in the March, so that there was no accident in the radio station and no part was lost, which ensured the smooth operation of the Corps Command and successfully completed the long march task. After arriving in Northern Shaanxi, he led the radio team to follow the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao in the famous Zhiluo campaign. Since March 1936, he successively served as the director and political commissar of the Political Department of the Red Army's third and tenth armies. He led his troops to participate in the eastern and Western expeditions. He successfully completed the tasks of covering the main force of the Red Army's return to northern Shaanxi, delaying the KMT's westward crossing of the Yellow River, and safeguarding the security of the party's central organs. He made important contributions to consolidating and developing the revolutionary base areas. during the Anti Japanese War, he successively served as deputy director of the left behind section of the 129th division of the Eighth Route Army, political member of the third garrison regiment of the rear left behind corps of the Eighth Route Army, director and deputy political member of the Political Department of the first garrison brigade, and Secretary general of the Political Department of the Shaanxi Gansu Ningxia Shanxi Suiyuan united defense army. He took part in many battles to defend the Yellow River, resist the invasion of Japanese and Kuomintang troops, and made contributions to the defense of the Shaanxi Gansu Ningxia border region and the Party Central Committee. In April 1944, under the guidance of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, Tan Zheng made a report on the issue of military political work at the senior cadres' meeting of the Northwest Bureau. Du Ping closely linked with the actual situation of the army and actively implemented the spirit of the report. In particular, his speech against warlord tendency made a profound exposition on the correct understanding and handling of the relationship between the military and the government, between the military and the people, and between the officers and soldiers, which was well received The affirmation and promotion of the leadership of the Northwest Bureau played a positive role in purifying the thoughts of officers and soldiers, uniting and winning the victory of the Anti Japanese war. on the eve of the liberation war, he went to work in Northeast China from Yan'an and served as the director of the Organization Department of the municipal Party committee of the CPC brigade Congress. In order to train the people needed for the construction of new China, according to the instructions of Luo Ronghuan, he founded the Jianguo College of LvDa and concurrently served as the vice president. He actively recruited progressive young intellectuals and trained a number of urgently needed economic construction backbones. In December 1946, he was transferred back to work in the army and served successively as Secretary General of the political department and deputy director of the Organization Department of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army, and director of the Organization Department of the Political Department of the Northeast Field Army and the fourth field army. He took part in such major battles as sanxiajiangdi, Liaoshen, Pingjin and Hengbao. During this period, the people's Liberation Army developed rapidly. Under the leadership of the head of the field army, he made various efforts to strengthen the organizational construction of the army. In particular, after the CPC Central Committee made the decision in February 1947 that the military and political committees at all levels in the general corps should be restored to Party committees, he did a lot of investigation and specific organizational work to establish and improve the party committees at all levels above the field corps and further strengthen the party's absolute leadership over the army. Du Ping fought South and North, galloped the battlefield, ensured the completion of the combat task with his strong and powerful political work, and established an indelible merit for the liberation of the Chinese people. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, he served as director of the Political Department of the 13th corps of the fourth field army. In October 1950, he was one of the first people to join the Korean War to resist US aggression and aid Korea. He served as director of the political department and member of the Standing Committee of the Party committee of the Chinese people's Volunteer Army, deputy secretary and Secretary of the Party committee of the Chinese people's volunteer army delegation of the deputy political committee of the West Coast command of the volunteer army. He took part in the whole course of the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea, took part in leading the first to fifth campaigns of the volunteer army's entry into the DPRK and the political work at the beginning of the defensive operations, and took part in leading and directly participating in the truce negotiations. In the face of danger, he bravely initiated the arduous task of leading the political work of the volunteer army. In the war against the well-equipped US Army, he paid attention to carrying forward the glorious tradition of our army, insisted that the core of wartime political work was always on strengthening the party's ideological and political leadership over the war, and constantly stimulated the patriotism, internationalism and revolutionary heroism of the front-line officers and men of the volunteer army. At the beginning of entering the DPRK, he personally wrote a political mobilization order and put forward the slogan of "fighting the first battle abroad well", which made the officers and soldiers have the confidence to fight and win, and the army's fighting enthusiasm was high. In January 1951, he presided over and founded the Volunteer Army Daily, which timely conveyed the instructions of the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao, summarized and popularized the combat experience of the army, publicized the heroic deeds of meritorious officials, and played an important role in giving full play to the political advantages of our army and boosting the morale of the army. Since November of the same year, he was ordered to participate in the Korean truce negotiations held in Panmunjom. During the negotiations, he resolutely implemented the strategic principles of the Party Central Committee, launched tit for tat struggle with the representatives of the US side, defeated the arrogance of the US and puppets, and won the victory of the negotiations. After the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed on July 27, 1953, he presided over the release and exchange of prisoners of war and waged a resolute struggle against the US side and enemy agents. He has won two first-class national flag medals of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and two first-class freedom and independence medals. He participated in the political work of the volunteer army under his leadership and made important contributions to the victory of the war. The political work experience he created is a valuable asset for the construction and operation of the people's army. After returning from Korea in April 1954, he successively served as director of the Political Department of the Northeast military region, deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department of the Shenyang Military Region, political commissar and Secretary of the Party committee of the Nanjing Military Region. In the modernization of the PLA, he has always adhered to the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, carried forward the glorious tradition of hard struggle, and is good at promoting the construction of the PLA by training and publicizing advanced models. During his work in Shenyang Military Region, he first proposed to carry out the activity of learning from Lei Feng in the army, and attached great importance to strengthening the training and education of Lei Feng. On August 12, 1962, after Lei Feng died in the execution of his mission, he personally organized the exhibition of Lei Feng's deeds and the creation of the drama Lei Feng. He persisted in carrying out the activity of learning from Lei Feng, and did a lot of fruitful work for the national publicity of Lei Feng's deeds, which reflected the farsightedness of senior leading cadres. After working in the Nanjing Military Region in March 1963, he was very concerned about the construction of the "good eight companies on Nanjing Road". He visited the company many times and stayed there, and handed them hand in hand. He also organized the summary and promotion of the "model company of civil military joint defense". "Diligent and thrifty business repair company" and Guo Xingfu's teaching method set an example for the army. He attached great importance to strengthening the leadership of Ideological and political work in the army, especially paid attention to the study of Marxism Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought by senior and middle-level cadres, selected cadres from all corners of the country, and appointed people on their merits. He devoted a lot of efforts to comprehensively strengthen the construction of the military region. From 1970 to 1974, he also served as the Secretary of Jiangsu provincial Party committee. He stood firm and took a clear-cut stand. He fought resolutely against Lin Biao and Jiang Qing's counter revolutionary group. After smashing the gang of four, he firmly supported and implemented the line, principles and policies since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, devoted himself to the army's "three modernizations" construction, and made new contributions. In August 1973, Du Ping was elected member of the 10th CPC Central Committee. In January 1975, the first session of the Fourth National People's Congress was held in Beijing. Du Ping attended the meeting as a representative. On October 6, 1976, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee carried out the people's will and smashed the Jiangqing counter revolutionary group. Du Ping was as jubilant as the majority of the commanders and fighters, but also eager to heal the trauma of 10 years of civil strife. Change the face of the party and the country. In September 1982, at the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Du Ping was elected a member of the Advisory Committee of the CPC Central Committee. in November 1982, Du Ping formally withdrew from the leadership position. After he quit his leading post, he still studied Deng Xiaoping's theory of building socialism with Chinese characteristics and continued to pay attention to it

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