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Chen Xi (1918 - December 14, 1991), male, from guantian village, Xinglian Township, Xingguo County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province. Born in a poor peasant family. As a young man, Chen Xi was smart and had close contacts with many soldiers in the Central Red Army Arsenal. Under the guidance of the Red Army officers and soldiers, they actively studied culture, accepted the progressive thought of revolution, and set up lofty revolutionary ideals. He was awarded the rank of major general in 1955. He was awarded the second level 81 medal, the second level independent freedom medal and the second level Liberation Medal. In 1988, he won the first-class Red Star Medal. He was a deputy to the Sixth National People's Congress.

On December 14, 1990, Comrade Chen Xi, an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a long tested and loyal communist fighter, an excellent military commander and political worker of our army, and a former political commissar of the Air Force Academy, died of illness in Beijing at the age of 72.

Life of the characters

Chen Xi, born in 1918 in a poor peasant family, was deprived of his right to go to school in the old society. His hometown is guantian village, Xingguo County, where the central arsenal of the Red Army is located. Chen Xi was very clever when he was a boy. He had close contacts with many soldiers in the Central Red Army Arsenal and had a deep friendship. Under the guidance of the Red Army officers and soldiers, they actively studied culture, accepted the progressive thought of revolution, and set up lofty revolutionary ideals. In his work in the Soviet Area, he has excellently completed the tasks assigned by the party and League organizations and the local Soviet government for many times, experienced training, and cultivated and cultivated a strong revolutionary will. On the Long March, he obeyed the organization and deployment, climbed the snow mountains and grasslands three times with the left Route Army of the Red Army, and successively participated in major battles such as the battle of yueqinling in Guangxi, the battle of Tucheng in Guizhou, the battle of Gaotai in Gansu, the battle of Shiwo and hongliuyuanzi. In 1931, at the age of 13, Chen Xi joined the Communist Youth League of China and became head of the Organization Department of the Liantang District Committee of the CPC. He joined the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army in 1934 and transferred from the Communist Party of China in the same year. During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, he successively served as political instructor of the company, youth officer of the Political Department of the regiment, propagandist of the Political Department of the division, technical secretary and chief of the cultural section of the Political Department of the fifth Red Army Corps, and Secretary General of the Political Department of the 30th Red Army. He took part in the fifth anti "encirclement and suppression" war in the Central Soviet area. In October 1934, with the central main force of the Red Army Long March. He obeyed the organization and deployment, and climbed the snow mountain and grassland three times with the left Route Army of the Red Army. He took part in the battle of huqinling in Guangxi, Tucheng in Guizhou, Gaotai in Gansu, Shiwo and hongliuyuanzi. In March 1937, in the battle of nijiayingzi in Zhangye, Gansu Province, Chen Xi took up the task of frontal attack, using several earth houses to cover and defeat the enemy cavalry again and again. The enemy became angry and roared at the earthen hut. Suddenly, the house collapsed and buried Chen Xi in it. It was not until the interval between the battles that his comrades dug Chen Xi out of the mound. Finally, he entered Xinjiang with the remnant of the West Route Army of the Red Army. In the tough war environment, Chen Xi was brave and indomitable, and constantly matured. In March 1938, he accepted the organization's dispatch and was one of the first to study flying in Xinjiang air force. Under the guidance of Soviet pilots, after four years of hard work, they mastered the advanced flight principles and complicated calculations, became familiar with the complex structure of the aircraft and the performance of various components, systematically mastered the aviation theory and "flying alone" technology, and became the first batch of flight backbones of our army. In July 1942, when the study in Xinjiang was about to end, Sheng Shicai, the former chairman of the KMT government in Xinjiang, who had cooperated with our party, suddenly turned his face and refused to recognize others. He unjustifiably imprisoned and persecuted all the cadres and students of our party going to Xinjiang, even their families. The comrades in the air force did not yield to Sheng Shicai's obscene power, and fought rationally, favorably and chastely. In order to get in touch with the outside world as soon as possible, Chen Xi stepped on the ladder built by his comrades in arms three times in the dark to get in touch with the Soviet consulate in Xinjiang, reflecting the real situation of the flight team's imprisonment. The news soon spread to all parts of the country, which aroused the protest of our party and the condemnation of public opinion, and restrained Sheng Shicai's atrocity. After being rescued by the Party Central Committee, Chen Xi returned to Yan'an in June 1946. At the beginning of the war of liberation, part of Northeast China was first liberated by our army, and a number of Japanese trainers were seized. The Party Central Committee decided to make use of these flight equipment, base facilities and aviation drawings. Chen Xi was ordered to establish our party's first aviation school in Northeast China, and served as the political instructor, political commissar and leader of the flight brigade. He took the lead in setting an example, worked hard and accomplished the task excellently. after the founding of the people's Republic of China, he was ordered to participate in the establishment of the third Aviation School of the air force and served as the president. When he was the principal of the third Aviation School of the Chinese people's Liberation Army, he strengthened the overall construction of the school, made strict demands on the students, always flying solo one by one, and trained a large number of excellent pilots. later, he successively served as the first deputy director of the management department of the air force military academy, the director of the air force military academy, the first vice president and political commissar of the Air Force Academy. During his tenure as director of the Air Force Academy, he participated in the development of the air force academy from a single academy to a multi-disciplinary, multi arms and multi-level academy, and achieved fruitful results. Chen Xi trained a large number of excellent pilots and middle and senior commanders for the PLA Air Force, and made contributions to the construction of the PLA Air Force. Even more, the Communist Party has never been censured, and has never been persecuted. After resuming his work in 1978, Chen Xi served as the first vice president of the Air Force Academy. He led all the comrades in the academy to set things right, eliminate the influence of "left" ideology, devoted himself to the restoration and development of the Academy, cleared up a large number of historical cases, timely shifted the focus of work to teaching, actively and steadily promoted teaching reform, and cultivated a large number of qualified middle and high school students for the air force He is a high-level commander. On December 14, 1990, Comrade Chen Xi, an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a long tested and loyal communist fighter, an excellent military commander and political worker of our army, and a former political commissar of the Air Force Academy, died of illness in Beijing at the age of 72. On December 29, 1990, a farewell ceremony to the remains of Comrade Chen Xi was held in the auditorium of Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing. Li Xiannian, Nie Rongzhen, Qin Jiwei, Yang Dezhi, Yu Qiuli, Zhang Aiping, Chen Xilian, the Central Military Commission, the Ministry of national defense, the three headquarters of the people's Liberation Army, the Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Military Commission, the Party committee of the air force, and the provincial, prefectural and county leading organs of Comrade Chen Xi's origin sent wreaths. Leading comrades of the air force and representatives of hundreds of officers and men attended the farewell ceremony.

Promotion to military rank

He was awarded the rank of major general in 1955.

Character honor

He was awarded the second level 81 medal, the second level independent freedom medal and the second level Liberation Medal. in 1988, he won the first class Red Star Medal of merit.

Character evaluation

In the late 1980s, when the delegation of the Royal Air Force of India came to Xingguo to visit the exhibition of the deeds of Xingguo generals, a colonel, after listening to the commentator's detailed introduction to General Chen Xi, gave a thumbs up excitedly and kept praising: "it's amazing that General Chen Xi is an eagle flying out of the ravine!" There was a tremendous admiration in his eyes. yes, who could have thought that a cowherd who had never studied since he was a child would grow up to be the first flight backbone of our army, one of the founders of the first aviation school and major general of the air force of the people's Liberation Army. In the eyes of foreigners, this is an incredible miracle.

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