Li Jiping: Sacrificing one's life to go to danger, the blood burns the light

【Biography】Li Jiping (1908-1930), formerly known as Li Weixuan, was a native of Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1927 and went to moscow in June of the same year to study at the Eastern University. After returning to China in 1928, he became the head of the Yangzhou County Committee of the Communist Party of China. At the end of 1929, he was appointed inspector of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. In July 1930, he became the secretary of the Nanjing Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, was arrested in Nanjing the same month, and died in Yuhuatai in August.

"With our family and personal conditions, it is impossible to continue to study in China, how can we talk about studying abroad?" Only the Party gives us such conditions. We must study hard and contribute to the revolution. In 1927, Li Jiping, who went to study at the Oriental University in Moscow, left this sentence. After that, he offered to return to China to devote himself to revolutionary work. In August 1930, the underground party organization in Nanjing suffered the sixth major destruction, and Li Jiping, then secretary of the Nanjing Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, bravely took up his righteousness in Yuhuatai, and his life was forever fixed at the age of 22.

In March 1908, Li Jiping was born in Jiangyin County, a family of scholars in Beisuo Lane, Chengzhong Street, Jiangyin County. After graduating from Jiangyin Fuyan Primary School, he entered the Lishi Middle School where his father taught. However, due to the lack of family, after graduating from junior high school, he had to give up his studies and work as an apprentice in a silk cloth shop.

In the 1920s, the vigorous wave of the Great Revolution swept across the country, and Li Jiping, who actively aspired to progress, was also deeply affected. In early 1927, he joined the Communist Party of China and served as a member of the Jiangyin County Committee of the Communist Party of China. After the reactionaries launched the April 12 coup, the revolution fell into a low ebb, and Li Jiping's work also went underground, and at a party meeting, he firmly stated that he would swear to die with the Communist Party and would never succumb to the reactionary forces.

In 1927, in order to train revolutionary cadres, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China selected hundreds of party members and league members from all over the country and secretly sent them to the Soviet Union to study. Li Jiping also received a notice from the superior organization, and after a long and bumpy journey, he finally arrived in Moscow smoothly and was assigned to study at the Moscow Oriental University.

During his studies, Li Jiping became a cadet in the military and political training class. In June 1928, the Sixth National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in Moscow, and Li Jiping sincerely submitted a request to the deputies to return to China to work. At that time, the organization had decided to send him to the artillery school for further study, insisting: "Although study is important, work is more important, not to mention the great need for people in the country." Under his repeated insistence, the application to return to China was finally approved by the party organization.

After returning to China, Li Jiping was organizationally assigned to be responsible for the work of the Yangzhou County Cpc Committee, and at the end of 1929, he was transferred to the Inspectorate of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, responsible for guiding the revolutionary struggle in Nanjing, Zhenjiang, Changzhou and other areas along the Beijing-Shanghai line. In April 1930, the provincial party committee transferred Li Jiping to the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee. In July of the same year, the higher-level organization decided that Li Jiping would be appointed secretary of the Nanjing Municipal Action Committee and responsible for carrying out armed insurrection.

In order to actively prepare for the armed insurrection plan decided by the Nanjing Municipal Action Committee, Li Jiping personally went to Pukou and Xiaguan to inspect the preparations for the uprising. On July 29, 1930, just two days before the armed uprising began, due to the stalking of secret agents, a command organ secretly set up by the Municipal Commission was discovered by the enemy, and Li Jiping, the secretary of the Party Committee, who was holding a meeting upstairs, and five other comrades were unfortunately arrested.

After Li Jiping's Communists were arrested, they were detained in the detention center of the Nationalist Capital Garrison Headquarters and tortured and interrogated, but the enemy never received any information. On August 18 of that year, more than half a month after being arrested, the murderous enemy finally poisoned the hand, and Li Jiping and his comrades fell heroically in a pool of blood in Yuhuatai.