Famous person from the Jinsui Revolutionary Base Area (388) - Mu Shengzhong, commander of the Ninth Military Subdistrict of the Jinsui Military Region

Mu Shengzhong is a founding major general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, a former political commissar of the Logistics Department of the Lanzhou Military Region, and a former minister of industry and communications of the Tibet Work Committee.

During the Jinsui period, Mu Shengzhong served as deputy political commissar of the Fourth Military Subdistrict of the Jinsui Military Region, commander of the Ninth Military Subdistrict, and secretary of the CPC Shanxi Hejin County CPC Committee.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Mu Shengzhong, as the political commissar of the troops entering Tibet, led a team into Tibet. From May to December 1954, Mu Shengzhong led more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians from Golmud, Tibet, across 25 snow-capped mountains and built 1,283 kilometers of roads. On December 15, the road-building army finally arrived in Lhasa, and the Qinghai-Tibet Highway was fully opened, and the Graben changed its route, which lasted only 7 months and 4 days.

For more than 60 years, the Qinghai-Tibet Highway has floated like a white hada over the top of a snow-capped mountain, closely linking Tibet with the interior of the motherland. People will not forget the hardships of the heroes who built the road in the snowy plateau, nor will they forget the story of General Mu Shengzhong building the road. General Mu Shengzhong was praised by Tibetans as "General of Road Construction", "General of Tianlu", and "Father of Qinghai-Tibet Highway".

General Mu Shengzhong

Mu Shengzhong, born in 1910, is a native of Wubao, Shaanxi. He joined the revolution in 1930. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1933.

During the agrarian revolutionary war, Mu Shengzhong served as the political commissar of the 5 detachments of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi, the political commissar of the Red 5 Regiment and the director of the Military Department of the Wubao County CPC Committee, the political commissar of the Red 25 Column, the member of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Jin Provincial CPC Committee, the member of the CPC Northern Shaanxi Provincial Committee and the director of the White District Work Department, the secretary of the Wubao County CPC Committee, the commander of the Second Operational Sub-district of the Red Army in Northern Shaanxi, and the secretary of the Wubao Central County CPC Committee.

During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the commander of operations in the area east of Yan'an and the chief of staff of the Military Department of the Shaanxi Special Commission. Propaganda Director of Luochuan Prefectural Committee. Political Commissar of the Gangan Independent Battalion.

During the Liberation War, Mu Shengzhong served as deputy political commissar of the Fourth Military Subdistrict of the Jinsui Military Region and commander of the Ninth Military Subdistrict. In 1948, he was appointed secretary of the Hejin County CPC Committee in Shanxi. In 1949, he was appointed Minister of the First Field Army and Secretary-General of the Political Department.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as director of the Political Department of the Northwest Railway Trunk Line Engineering Bureau, political commissar of the Northwest Military Region's troops entering Tibet, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Tibet Working Committee and director of the Organization Department, and political commissar of the Tibet Transport Corps. In 1955, he was appointed political commissar of the Logistics Department of Lanzhou Military Region. In 1961, he was appointed Minister of Industry and Communications of the Tibet Working Committee.

In 1955, Mu Shengzhong was awarded the rank of major general. (Ren Huming)