During the period of the modern revolution on the mainland and the construction of new China, the party and state leadership collectives experienced several alternations, but they never forgot their original intentions and always insisted on fighting for the development of the country and the interests of the people.
Li Xiannian, former deputy director of the State Council Financial and Economic Commission, member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee, former chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and former president of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, is one of the outstanding leaders.
In his 60-year revolutionary career, he participated in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, even though he held the national financial power, he was still honest and honest, diligent and humble.
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Li Xiannian's revolutionary career was actually quite bumpy, he was born poor, joined the revolution before he was a teenager, joined the army at the age of 18 and officially became a party member.
He successively served as the political commissar of the Red Fourth Army, division, and group army, and served as an important leader of the CPC in the Dabie Mountain Revolutionary Base Area and the Sichuan-Shaanxi region, leading the local military and people to leave indelible merits in the history of the Mainland's War of Resistance.
Li Xiannian also personally experienced the Long March of the Red Army, and after serving as a military minister in Henan for several years, he returned to the army to serve as the commander of the Central Plains Military Region, and was elected deputy secretary of the Central Plains Bureau.
In 1947, our army turned from defensive to offensive in the War of Liberation, and Li Xiannian led his troops to the south to meet Liu Deng's army and participated in the liberation of many places in Henan.
After the victory in the Liberation War, Li Xiannian was stationed in Hubei and temporarily served as secretary of the provincial party committee and commander of the military region, and was responsible for directing the post-war work of the province. With his leadership, the whole territory of Hubei has made major breakthroughs in stabilizing prices, land reform, suppressing rebellions, suppressing bandits, unifying finances, strengthening circulation, and post-war reconstruction.
After the founding of New China, Li Xiannian was transferred back to the Central Committee and elected vice premier and minister of finance of the State Council, mainly responsible for managing the country's "money bag".
He made great efforts to balance financial credit, formulate policies to promote the flow of urban and rural trade, expand local financial authority, and endure humiliation and burden in times of turmoil, working with other leaders to turn the tide and smash the conspiracy of the Gang of Four. Since then, Li Xiannian has made achievements in reform, opening up, and the recovery and development of the national economy, and is a well-deserved outstanding leader.
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In 1992, Comrade Li Xiannian, who made countless contributions to the revolutionary cause of the party and the country, passed away unexpectedly, leaving many "red family trainings" to restrain future generations. After his death, how did the descendants of the Li family live?
Li Xiannian had three daughters and one son in his life, of which the eldest daughter Li Jin was born to him and his ex-wife, adhering to his father's testament, she was very low-key, a dedicated medical worker, and rarely appeared in front of the public and the media.
The second daughter is Li Ziyang, who did not enter politics, but took the road of medicine like her eldest sister. Li Ziyang looks like his father, with a neat form and a cheerful personality. She volunteered in the army in 1968 and formally joined the party two years later. After retiring from the army, Li Ziyang went to Guangzhou to study at the local Zhongshan Hospital, where he transformed from a soldier to a medical student.
In 1975, Li Ziyang returned to his father's side and worked in the Beijing Air Force Hospital and the 305 Hospital, and after retiring, he participated in the leadership of the establishment of the Chinese Association of Women Physicians, which is now its vice president.
In Li Ziyang's medical career of more than 50 years, she did not think of herself as a high-ranking cadre, but worked seriously, constantly accumulated experience to urge her own progress, and made her own achievements in the field of medicine with great enthusiasm for work.
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The third eldest of the Li family is Li Ping and the only son of Li Xiannian, so Li Xiannian's education of Li Ping is very strict. When Li Ping was 16 years old, he was arranged by his father to go to the grass-roots level of the army to train, and two years later he officially joined the party, and then entered the Beijing Foreign Language Institute to study.
In 1977, Li Ping, who successfully graduated, first spent 8 years in the Academy of Military Sciences, and under the intentional suppression of his father, Li Ping was promoted to two levels in 8 years. Since then, he has been appointed to Australia as an ambassador abroad because of his excellent foreign language skills and work experience. In 2006, after returning to China, Li Ping was transferred to the Beijing Military Region as deputy chief of staff and later awarded the rank of major general.
Li Ping was the only one among the descendants of the Li family who took the military and political route.
Li Xiannian's young daughter is named Li Xiaolin, because of her young age, her family loves her very much and does not have too much restraint on her. After being admitted to the Department of Foreign Languages of Wuhan University, Li Xiaolin went to the United States to study for a master's degree in history, and after successfully graduating and returning to China, he is now deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and president of the Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries.
It is worth mentioning that Li Xiaolin married Liu Yaya, who is also a "second generation of reds", and her husband was once the political commissar of the National Defense University and had the rank of general. After marriage, the husband and wife are also extremely low-key, and after both of them retire, they take their daughters to travel everywhere, often planting vegetables and practicing writing in their leisure time, and the family lives a happy life of diligence and frugality.
Under the words and deeds of their father Li Xiannian, the Li family always keeps in mind the family style of "not engaging in special, civilized and polite, and abiding by discipline and law", does not seek private interests by virtue of the identity of a high-ranking cadre, and does not add trouble to the country, but instead loves their posts and dedicates themselves to their work in a down-to-earth manner, shining in their respective fields, which makes people sigh "The family style is real and upright!" ”