After the death of the founding general of new China, not many people at Tiananmen Lowered the flag to half-mast to mourn, and Su Zhenhua, political commissar of the Navy, was one of the few.
Not only that, but party and state leaders presided over his memorial service.
Why does he enjoy such a high standard? Because there is a large enough contribution to have such a high specification.
Speaking of Su Zhenhua, he joined Peng Dehuai's Red 5 Army during the Red Army period and became a political work cadre.
For the first two years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he had been working at the Yan'an Anti-Japanese War until July 1939, when he went to the front line of the Anti-Japanese War. From May 1940 to the 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division, he served as political commissar and concurrently served as the political commissar of the Rusi Military Region. This unit was the 12th Regiment of the Red Third Army during the Red Army period, his old unit.
He was able to go to the front line after several applications were approved.
When he arrived at the Rusi base area, the Japanese army implemented a policy of cages in a vain attempt to trap the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians. Under the leadership of him and commander Yang Yong, he actively expanded and reorganized the army.
In 1941, the new Jiluyu Military Region was established, and the commander was Yang Dezhi, who served as the political commissar and led the military and the people to develop production and expand the base areas.
During the Liberation War, he served as the political commissar of the 1st Column of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Military Region, and prepared with the commander Yang Dezhi to go to the northeast to fight, but after arriving in Jinchaji, the order changed, leaving Jinchaji to fight many battles.
At the beginning of 1947, the 1 column returned to the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Field Army, Yang Dezhi stayed in Jin-Cha-Ji, and Su Zhenhua led the troops back to Liu Deng's side. The Battle of Dingtao, the Battle of Northern Henan, the Battle of Southwest Lu, the Battle of Dabie Mountain, the Battle of Huaihai, and the Battle of Crossing the River were launched.
1 As the main ace under Liu Deng, he has fought many hard battles and has been commended many times.
In fact, among the many generals, many people were inferior to him in terms of fighting wars and doing political work.
His most outstanding merit was during the period when he was transferred to the Navy in New China.
In 1954 he served as Deputy Political Commissar of the Navy, and by 1957 he had been promoted to Commissar of the Navy.
He advocated that naval construction must have independence and self-reliance, and that we can learn from advanced foreign technologies, but we must digest and make our own new types of ships. 5 Naval Science and Technology Research Institutes were formed under his mastery.
Many veteran naval comrades said: Xiao Jinguang is a strategic commander, mainly responsible for decision-making, and the specific work is all done by Su Zhenhua and has been alone for a long time.
With his efforts, the Navy's nuclear submarines were developed and tested.
Unfortunately, by 1967, he was "knocked down" and stood on the sidelines for 5 years. Got a comeback job in 1972. Organizationally reinstated his original duties. He believes that he has not worked in the Navy for 5 years, and he is not familiar with the troops and technology, and hopes to first serve as a deputy to go down to research and master all aspects of the Navy.
He spent 8 months to get himself into the Navy. He became a naval decision-maker in 1973.
In 1976, after actively assisting Hua and Ye in crushing the Gang of Four, he was ordered to work in Shanghai. Stabilizing Shanghai can play a role in stabilizing the whole country, and this burden is not light.
With his efforts, Shanghai resumed production in an orderly manner, the situation was stable, and the heavy trust of the central authorities was fulfilled.
Su Zhenhua worked so intensely that he was not in good health and was hospitalized for a heart attack in 1978. In this way, he also presided over meetings of the Navy. At the last moment of what did not forget the Navy work, and finally died of a myocardial infarction.
On February 15, 1979, in order to mourn Su Zhenhua, the flag was lowered to half-mast in Tiananmen Square. Not only that, the old chief Deng Xiaoping delivered a eulogy.
The eulogy tells that Su Zhenhua has made outstanding contributions to the modernization of the navy in new China.
In smashing the "Gang of Four", he actively assisted Hua Guofeng and Ye Jianying to make major contributions, and was ordered to stabilize the situation in Shanghai and enable Shanghai to quickly enter the process of economic construction.