In 1977, when a founding general was appointed director of the General Political Department, Deng Xiaoping told him to restore the prestige of the General Political Department. Who was this founding admiral? He is Wei Guoqing, the founding general of the Red Seventh Army.
Wei Guoqing was a native of Guangxi and a general of the Third Field Army during the Liberation War, so why was he chosen to be the director of the General Political Department?
First of all, Wei Guoqing is both civil and military, very good at doing political work, and is also an old political worker. When the Third Field Army was established, Wei Guoqing was the political commissar of the Tenth Corps, and before that, there was a Northern Jiangsu Corps, and Wei Guoqing was the commander of the Corps.
Before the Northern Jiangsu Corps, Wei Guoqing served as the commander and political commissar of the second column of the East China Field Army. The political commissar for a while, and the commander for a while, fully shows that Wei Guoqing is a very all-round general who can take on the burden of the general political department.
Secondly, Wei Guoqing is actually a general of the Central Red Army. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Marshal Luo Ronghuan, the first director of the General Political Department, and later General Tan Zheng and General Xiao Hua were all generals of the Central Red Army. Although Wei Guoqing was born in the Red Seventh Army, he later joined the Central Soviet Region.
On the Long March, Wei Guoqing served as a battalion commander and acting regiment commander in the Central Cadre Regiment, and from the top of the mountain, he was also a member of the Central Red Army.
Finally, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wei Guoqing ruled Guangxi for a long time. Before taking up his post in Beijing, he was the first secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, and at the same time the first political commissar of the Guangzhou Military Region.
Guangdong is a coastal province and is faced with all kinds of complicated situations, but Wei Guoqing can handle them properly and has the ability to take charge of himself and deal with complex problems. After so many experiences, Wei Guoqing will definitely be able to be a good director of the General Political Department.
In 1977, Wei Guoqing was elected as a member of the 11th Central Committee, a member of the 11th Politburo, and was appointed as a member of the Standing Committee of the Military Commission. In August, the Central Military Commission appointed Wei Guoqing as director of the General Political Department.
In the face of this new and important position, where should Wei Guoqing go and where to start? When encountering problems at work, Wei Guoqing used to consult the old chief Deng Xiaoping. Deng Xiaoping was the political commissar of the Red Seventh Army that year.
At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wei Guoqing served as the head of the advisory group for aiding Vietnam, but he did not know how to carry out the work, so he went to consult Deng Xiaoping. Deng Xiaoping's words made Wei Guoqing suddenly clear his thoughts and find the right direction.
Deng Xiaoping also personally invited the leaders of various field armies to a meeting and asked them to support Wei Guoqing's work, asking people to give people and money to money. In this way, the team and team of Wei Guoqing's advisory group have been established.
Now serving as the director of the General Political Department, Wei Guoqing also feels very confused. This time, he did not go to the old chief, Deng Xiaoping, but Deng Xiaoping asked him to talk. Deng Xiaoping's speeches have always been relatively concise and to the point, and he grasped the key points in a few words.
He told Wei Guoqing the sentence at the beginning of the article, telling him that the most important thing at present was to restore the role and prestige of the General Political Department, and to devote great efforts to restoring the political organs to the same as they were during the war years, especially the departments that controlled the cadres.
This pointed out the direction of Wei Guoqing's work. Wei Guoqing's former director of the General Political Department was named Zhang Chunqiao, and he did a lot of sabotage in this post, rectified many people, seriously undermined the role and prestige of the General Political Department, and turned the General Political Department into a mess.
Wei Guoqing's appointment in the General Political Department can be described as a waste of waste, and it is necessary to put things in order. He lived up to the instructions and expectations of the old chief, worked diligently in this post for five years, restored the reputation and treatment of many veteran cadres, corrected unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, and re-established the prestige of the General Political Department.
In 1982, Wei Guoqing ceased to be the director of the General Political Department and was succeeded by one-armed lieutenant general Yu Qiuli.
(Reference book: "The Biography of Wei Guoqing")