Yan Zhao Yinglie| Huang Cheng: a communicator of the New Fourth Army

Huang Cheng. Courtesy of the Provincial Department of Veterans Affairs

Huang Cheng (1914-1942), formerly known as Qinghe, was a young mountain. A native of Anci County, Hebei Province (present-day Anci District, Langfang). In the autumn of 1930, he was admitted to the No. 4 Middle School of Beiping City. In 1932, he was admitted to the preparatory department of Tianjin Beiyang Institute of Technology and was elected as the chairman of the Riverside Society and the Wildfire Society. In September 1934, he was admitted to the School of Engineering of Tsinghua University. In December 1935, he was elected president of the Tsinghua University Student Union and the Anti-Japanese Salvation Congress. The National Salvation Congress issued a "Letter to the People of the Whole Country", shouting out the common voice of the students in North China at that time: "The great country of North China has been unable to place a calm desk!" On December 9, 1935, he participated in the organization of the "12.9" patriotic student movement and served as the general leader of the parade. On March 31, 1936, he joined the Communist Party of China. In June 1936, he was expelled from the school for organizing the "June 13" demonstration of Peking students. In September, he transferred to the Department of Chinese Literature of Peking University of China and continued to engage in anti-Japanese rescue work. At the beginning of October, he was elected as the chairman of the Peking Students' Federation and the secretary of the Communist Party of China's Beiping Students' Federation. He was soon arrested and rescued from prison by a party organization. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he was sent to the Seventh Theater by the party organization to actively do the united front work of the Sichuan Army. After the Arrival of the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui in 1938, he served as the head of the Secretariat of the Political Department of the New Fourth Army. Ye Ting praised him as a "communicator of the New Fourth Army". In July 1939, he was elected as a deputy to the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China. He was arrested during the Anhui Incident in 1941. In April 1942, he was strangled with a rope by the enemy in the Rock Bottom Prison at the age of 28.

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