Located in the birthplace of Chinese civilization, Zhong Lingyuxiu, the land of Qilu, produced many peerless soldiers, and gave birth to Kong Meng, Sun Wu, Wang Xizhi, Fang Xuanling, Xin Qiyi, Wang Zhen and other sages.
Thousands of years later, cadres and heroes such as Jiao Yulu, Kong Fansen, Yang Zirong, and other cadres and heroes, adhering to the aspirations of their ancestors, took patriotism for the people as their rule of establishment, and bowed down on the road of seeking the well-being of the people of the country, and Gu Mu was one of the Communist Party members who made great contributions.
Gu Mu joined the revolution at the age of 17, joined the party at the age of 18, and died of illness at the age of 96, casting a monument of dedication to the country and the people with more than 80 years of revolutionary career, CCTV also specially produced a documentary "Gu Mu" for him, so that his story and deeds are still praised to this day.
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In the autumn of 1914, Gu Mu was born in an ordinary peasant family in Rongcheng County, Shandong Province. Although the family did not live a wealthy life, they were very happy with each other and attached great importance to education. Under the premise of barely ensuring a livelihood, his parents insisted on sending 7-year-old Gu Mu to study.
Fortunately, he was extremely talented and had always taken the initiative to absorb knowledge, and he was exposed to many progressive books and periodicals at a young age. It is said that at the age of three, Gu Mu has not yet achieved enough to give people a glimpse of his rational and tenacious qualities, as well as his self-motivated and innovative style.
In 1932, Gu Mu, who had just turned 18, officially joined the party and began his life of dedication to the party, the country and the people.
At the beginning, the party organization asked him to stay in Shandong and serve as the secretary of the party branch of the Seventh Rural Normal School, where he stayed for 2 years and actively cooperated with the organization of various revolutionary activities.
In 1934, Gu Mu was transferred to Beiping, and during the left-wing cultural movement, he was responsible for coordinating the work of the Beiping Left-wing Writers Union. Two years later, he was assigned to the 112th Division of the Northeast Army and served as the secretary of the Working Committee.
Soon after the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression began, Gu Mu actively participated in the Anti-Japanese War movement, successively serving as a senator of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, the secretary of the Shandong Branch of the CPC, the director of the United Front Work Department, and the political commissar of the Binhai Second Military Subdistrict.
During this period, he led the masses to resolutely crack down on traitors and Japanese puppets, and developed production and economic construction in the revolutionary areas, and under his leadership, the living conditions of the local peasants and workers were improved.
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After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the organization successively appointed Gu Mu as secretary general of the East China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, secretary of the Binhai Prefectural Committee, and political commissar of the military sub-district. Under the guidance of the Party Central Committee, Comrade Gu Mu, who held an important position, cooperated with the party organization in preparing for the liberation war, and under the guidance of the party Central Committee, he led the army and the people to establish all-round armed combat readiness, including local armed forces, militia, and the masses, and united all forces to deal a heavy blow to the national army.
In addition, Gu Mu also vigorously promoted land reform and the participation in the zhizhi movement in the Liberated Areas, and under his leadership, the production and economic development in the Liberated Areas recovered rapidly, which provided a powerful guarantee for the victory of the Huaihai and River Crossing Campaigns.
After the founding of New China, the organization sent Gu Mu to Jinan to serve as mayor and secretary of the municipal party committee. As soon as Gu Mu, who had a lot of revolutionary and work experience, arrived in Jinan, he vigorously carried out a number of important tasks such as comprehensive land reform, promoting industrial construction, curbing inflation, and stabilizing prices.
Gu Mu, who had made outstanding achievements, was deeply trusted by the organization, and was soon transferred to Shanghai, where he successively served as the director of the Propaganda Department of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, the second secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, and the secretary of the Municipal Working Committee. During his term of office, Gu Mu attached great importance to the party's propaganda work and vigorously grasped the study of the party's theory and foreign news propaganda.
Gu Mu also attached great importance to industrial transportation work, and simultaneously promoted the socialist transformation of industry and commerce in Shanghai. Under his leadership, the production difficulties of state-owned enterprises in Shanghai were solved and the production targets of enterprises were perfectly completed.
In 1954, Gu Mu was transferred to the Central Committee and successively served as deputy director of the State Construction Commission and director of the Third Office of the State Council, and then was responsible for assisting the leaders of the State Council in carrying out economic coordination work. Under the instruction and support of Premier Zhou, the valley herders grasped the construction of coastal ports and achieved remarkable results of 50% growth in 1975.
After Deng Gong presided over the work, Gu Mu was promoted to vice premier of the State Council and secretary of the National Infrastructure Construction Committee. He began to participate in the comprehensive rectification of the national economy, focusing on railway transportation as a breakthrough, driving the rapid development of coal, electricity, steel and other industries. During Gu Mu's tenure, the urban infrastructure across the country was improved, and many urban residents' housing difficulties and indiscriminate occupation and construction were solved.
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In 1978, Gu Mu led a delegation to visit Western Europe, and before leaving, Deng Gong talked to him and gave instructions: Carefully investigate the modern industrial level in the West, see how people manage emergency work, and bring back advanced experiences that are suitable for national conditions that are worth learning.
Gu Mu did not live up to Deng Gong's expectations, he spent 30 days to investigate, footprints throughout Germany, France, Switzerland and other Western European countries more than 20 cities, focusing on the investigation of mines, factories, ports, universities and scientific research and other work.
Gu Mu personally got up early every day to go out to investigate, and he could not eat in the middle, until it was dark before returning to his residence, summarizing the day's work while eating a full stomach, and discussing topics with the delegation. Gu Mu was so busy that he didn't even have time to wash and rest, and this professionalism greatly shocked the consulate staff and overseas Chinese compatriots, and even offered to help take care of private affairs.
After returning to China, Gu Mu did not stop his busy pace, but held seminars day and night for more than a month, and finally made an important work report that affected reform, opening up, and economic construction.
In the work of opening up to the outside world, Comrade Gu Mu has introduced a highly centralized economic policy according to local conditions, which has greatly promoted the pace of reform and opening up. Subsequently, during his inspections of Fujian, Guangdong and Shandong, he vigorously promoted the construction of coastal ports and resolutely cracked down on illegal smuggling.
Since the 1980s, Comrade Gu Mu has made great achievements in opening up to the outside world, the construction of the Hainan Special Economic Zone, the management of tourism and civil aviation, the protection of traditional culture and international friendly exchanges.
In 2009, Comrade Gu Mu, who selflessly dedicated his life to the party, the country and the people, died of illness and his life ended at the age of 96.