A considerable number of the revolutionaries who fought for the cause of the liberation of the Chinese people came from wealthy families, and they lived a life of food and clothing since they were young, but their hearts longed for freedom and equality, so they abandoned their comfortable lives and threw themselves into the revolutionary cause. Yao Yilin is a typical representative of these people.
Born in Hong Kong in 1917, Yilin Yao's family was prominent during the Republic of China period. His father, Yao Jiexun, was the fourth oldest in the family, and in his early years he was an official in the government, and was promoted to lieutenant general because he followed Mr. Zhongshan's revolution.
Unfortunately, at the age of 36, he died of illness. After receiving the news of his death, the wife returned to Jiangsu from Hong Kong with her children and joined her husband's second brother.
When his father died, Yao Yilin was still young, and in order to take care of him and his sister, his mother went to a foreign school to work as a teacher to supplement the family. The well-educated mother was very sensible, and she knew that sending people to the fence was not a long-term solution, so when the children were older, she took them to Live in Shanghai.
The family's life was tight, and Yao Yilin understood the hardships of the world from a very young age, so he made up his mind to study hard and take good care of his mother in the future.
Yao Yilin's middle school had many progressive books, and through these books, the seeds of revolution were gradually planted in his heart. He has been actively involved in the student movement since middle school.
He then became a chemistry student at Tsinghua University. He became the backbone of his students with charisma and leadership skills. Also because of his positive performance, in 1935, at the age of 18, he became an official Communist Party member.
His fifth uncle, Yao Guozhen, was once an important member of the Anhui warlords, and moved to Tianjin after the decline of the Anhui clan. Yao Yilin often went to Tianjin to visit Uncle Wu, using his connections to work secretly for the party organization, and at the same time, he also actively propagated revolutionary ideas to the younger brothers and sisters of Uncle Wu's family.
Although Yao Yilin's mother is not quite clear about what her son is doing, she can also vaguely guess a few points, out of the mother's mentality, she offered to sell the house to let her son study in the Soviet Union, only hoping that her son would not get involved in the dispute, Yao Yilin rejected his mother, he understood what he had always wanted.
At that time in China, the Japanese had already invaded the northeast, and then they would extend the hand of evil to Kannai. The country is in a time of crisis, and it is impossible to walk away. Later, Yao Yilin learned from his fifth uncle that the wind and noise of revolutionary activities had leaked out, so he left the school and Beiping and came to Tianjin to work and live.
Because of the big tree of the fifth uncle, Yao Yilin can be said to be like a fish in Tianjin. After that, the Japanese Kou launched a comprehensive invasion of China, the national situation was critical, and Tianjin was not optimistic, so he came to Hebei to continue the revolutionary cause after dealing with the matters after the improvement.
Over the years, as the principal leading cadre, in addition to leading the struggle against the enemy, he has also actively participated in the economic construction of the base areas, provided firm economic support for the revolutionary movement of our party, ensured the stability of the political power, and also accumulated rich economic work experience.
After the founding of New China, the motherland, which was devastated by war for many years, was in a state of pervasive economics and had very difficult development, and it was also a huge problem to solve the problem of employment for millions of people.
For a state cadre like Yao Yilin, who is in charge of the economy, the burden on his shoulders seems to weigh a thousand pounds. It was in the face of such tremendous pressure and difficulties that he did a lot of adjustment work and played a huge role in improving the economic situation. During the special period, Yao Yilin also suffered an impact, and he carried out foreign trade work with firm conviction and under pressure.
In 1979, at the age of 62, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister, and he presided over and formulated many policies dedicated to solving the problems that arose in the rapid economic development of our country. He attached great importance to the development of agriculture and repeatedly raised the importance of the grain issue, which is the foundation for the people's stable living standards, and only by satisfactorily resolving this issue can economic construction develop well.
Yao Yilin's descendants are just as good as he is, and he also has a son-in-law, Wang Qishan, who, like his father-in-law, is a pillar of the state. In 1994, the elderly Yao Yilin, who had worked for the country all his life, died of illness in Beijing at the age of 77.