In Guichi District, Chizhou City, Anhui Province, there is a famous Yao family, since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Yao family has produced many talents, more than 70 officials who have served more than seven grades, since modern times, Yao has also produced a lot of revolutionary aspirants, the most representative is Yao Yilin, Yao Yilin once served as the vice premier of the State Council, and was included in the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, belonging to the national level of leaders, today we will talk about the story of Yao Yilin.
On September 6, 1917, Yao Yilin was born in Hong Kong, Yao Yilin's great-grandfather Yao Shaohan served as an inspector in Yongfeng, Ganxian and Wanzai counties in Jiangxi.
Yao Jiexun served as the Jiangsu Alternate Road, the director of the Shanghai Patrol Police Bureau and other positions, and later Yao Jiexun responded to Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary activities, made meritorious contributions to the law in Australia, and was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in the army, however, Yao Jiexun lived a relatively short life, and died in 1917 at the age of 37.
Just a few months before Yao Jiexun's death, his son Yao Yilin was born in Hong Kong, because he was born in Hong Kong and needed to register in English, his mother named him "William", and later his mother gave his son a Chinese name according to the order of the family, called Yao Keguang.
In the thirties of the last century, Yao Yilin was in high school in Shanghai, and met some revolutionary aspirants, including a friend named Yi Lin, who often borrowed progressive books to Yao Yilin, and under the influence of these progressive books, Yao Yilin gradually accepted Marxism and threw himself into the embrace of communism.
In 1934, Yao Yilin was admitted to Tsinghua University, during his time in Beiping, Yao Yilin actively participated in revolutionary activities, and joined the Communist Party of China in 1935, when Japan was planning the autonomy of the five provinces in North China, countless students took to the streets to demonstrate against the Japanese imperialist aggression against China, which is the "129 Movement", among which Yao Yilin is there.
In May 1936, Yao Yilin was assigned to work in Tianjin, during this period, Yao Yilin went to the house of his uncle Yao Guozhen, who lived in the concession, to take refuge, taking this opportunity, Yao Yilin often told his brothers and sisters of the same clan about the road of revolution, under his influence, Yao Kehu and Yao Keyin successively embarked on the revolutionary road, Yao Kehu was awarded the rank of major general after the founding of the country, and served as the deputy chief of staff of the Air Force.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Yao Yilin began to engage in leadership work in the economic sector, and successively served as deputy director of the Financial and Economic Office of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region, director of the North China Joint Administrative Committee for Industry and Commerce, and minister of industry and commerce of the North China People's Government, making significant contributions to the economic development of North China and the establishment of the Republic.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yao Yilin has been engaged in the leadership of the finance and trade department of the State Council for a long time, and has successively served as vice minister of trade, vice minister of commerce, vice minister of finance and trade of the Central Committee, deputy director of the Finance and Trade Office of the State Council, and minister of commerce.
Unexpectedly, during the special period of ten years, Yao Yilin also suffered the impact and was stopped from working, but he adhered to his principles and did not compromise, and in 1973, Yao Yilin, who had broken through many obstacles, finally resumed his work, and in 1975 adhered to Deng Xiaoping's policy of comprehensive rectification.
After the end of the 10-year special period, Yao Yilin conscientiously launched a struggle to expose and criticize the "Gang of Four", redress unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, and resolutely oppose the erroneous trend of thinking of "two whatevers".
In July 1979, at the Second Session of the Fifth National People's Congress, Yao Yilin was appointed Vice Premier of the State Council, in charge of economic work.
In November 1987, at the First Plenary Session of the 13th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Yao Yilin, Zhao Ziyang, Li Peng, Qiao Shi, and Hu Qili were elected as members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee.
On December 11, 1994, Yao Yilin died in Beijing at the age of 77.
In addition, Yao Yilin's eldest daughter is named Yao Mingshan, in the sixties and seventies of the last century, when Yao Mingshan was in Yan'an, he met Wang Qishan, a young man from the same village, and became a liar, and later Wang Qishan served as vice premier of the State Council, vice president of the state and other positions, and was included in the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and became a leader at the national level.