"I heard that when you were in trouble in the country, in order to save the revolution, you disregarded the safety of your whole family and lent the thousand taels of gold sold by the factory to our party.
She replied with a smile: "I did count after I left the holiday, and indeed there is such a thing, but I will not ask our party to repay it, and this gold will be counted as the membership fee I paid!" ”
The patriotic entrepreneur who was called "red boss lady" by Deng Yingchao: Zhou Zongqiong!
At that time, at the critical moment when the whole people resisted the war against the country, she who understood the great righteousness resolutely sold the factory on which she depended for survival, raised thousands of taels of gold, and then gave all this precious gold to the Communist Party.
"Red boss lady" Zhou Zongqiong, born in Chongqing in 1910 AD, in 1936, at the age of 26, she and Ren Zongde married, in 1938, the second year of Japan's comprehensive invasion of China, at the head of the national disaster, Zhou Zongqiong and her husband, who had strong patriotic feelings, poured their family property into Sichuan Hechuan Shengli Alcohol Factory, to build chongqing Hualongqiao business office, Chongqing was bombed by ghosts, her factory turned into ashes, Zhou Zongqiong could only start again, and once again prepared to build a new factory.
Later, one of her old classmates who joined the Communist Party, Su Yu, approached her and hoped that she would free up one of the houses for use as the Xinhua Daily newspaper led by the CCP in the south.
Xinhua Daily during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
Zhou Zongqiong's national righteousness was better than thousands of boys, and at this time, her own situation was still "mud bodhisattva crossing the river", but under such a predicament, she still helped the Communist Party of China without hesitation!
The following year, Zhou Zongqiong "made a comeback" under extremely difficult circumstances and once again established his own alcohol factory.
Later, some comrades of the chongqing underground party were exposed because of the traitors' whistle-blowing, and for a time, our party was in a desperate situation!
In order to preserve the revolutionary forces, the LEADERS of the Communist Party of China tried their best to rescue and transfer the comrades, but they could not come up with the money at all, and at this time, it was Zhou Zongqiong who sold his goods at a low price and gave the money raised to the revolutionary comrades to use, thus saving this revolutionary force!
In 1946, the Kuomintang-Communist negotiations broke down, and the revolutionary comrades in Shanghai once again pleaded with Zhou Zongqiong to provide funds to transfer the underground organs under extremely dangerous circumstances!
Zhou Zongqiong was duty-bound, and she once again generously donated money to help the revolutionary comrades tide over the difficulties!
From the period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1939 to the victory of the revolution, Zhou Zongqiong provided uncountable funds for China's revolutionary cause, and her alcohol factory also became the contact point and office of the underground party of the CCP, covering many revolutionary comrades.
Zhou Zongqiong made great contributions to the cause of the revolution, and when someone asked her the question of lending me a few thousand taels of gold from the party, she smiled and said that this would be the party fee I paid!
Legendary patriotic female entrepreneur, "red boss lady" Zhou Zongqiong
The great proletarian revolutionary Ms. Deng Yingchao gave her a resounding nickname: "Red Boss Lady"!
Zhou Zongqiong is a great patriotic entrepreneur, the glorious title of "Red Boss Lady" is well deserved, she is a veritable hero, and she can be compared with the ancient Mulan, Fan Lihua, Mu Guiying, Liang Hongyu and others!
On May 2, 1996, the 86-year-old "red boss lady" Zhou Zongqiong passed away unexpectedly, ending a legendary and great life!