This is an old photo from 1963.
The five central leaders lined up with smiles on their faces.
The first person on the left is not known, Deng Xiaoping, the chief architect of reform and opening up. At the time of the photoshoot, he was a secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, and he had the highest position and the highest political achievements among the five.
The second on the left is Marshal Chen Yi, then Minister of Foreign Affairs, who promoted the Sino-Japanese Go diplomacy in the 50s, 20 years earlier than the Sino-US ping-pong diplomacy, which can be described as a major innovation. Among the five, Chen Yi was the first to pass away, which was a great loss for New China.
The burly figure in the middle is Peng Zhen, then secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and mayor, a veritable "head snake", holding seven central and local positions.
The other four people are higher than him regardless of their positions and qualifications, but they still have to be "managed" by him on the territory of Beijing, so it is understandable that he stands in the middle.
Standing next to him on the right is Yang Shangkun, director of the General Office of the Central Committee, the youngest of the five, but his qualifications are not young.
Who is the one on the far right?
Everyone else laughs without showing their teeth, but he grins without scruples, why is he so happy?
The camera turns back to Paris, France in the 20s of the last century.
Love in Paris, love in a café
In 1919, 19-year-old Li Fuchun, 16-year-old Deng Xiaoping, as well as Chen Yi and Nie Rongzhen went to France to work and study.
During his time in France, Li Fuchun worked as a train driver and a fitter.
In Paris, he met his wife, Cai Chang, whom Deng Xiaoping affectionately called "eldest sister" and the "eldest sister" respected by everyone in the revolutionary ranks, and she was the oldest of the female Red Army soldiers who had completed the Long March.
Li Fuchun and Cai Chang are sisters and brothers, and Cai Chang is 8 days older than him.
One day, he went to find his friend Cai Hesen, who also came to Paris for a work-study program.
When he entered the door, he found her, diligently helping his mother with household chores.
She is Cai Chang, Cai Hesen's sister.
From that moment on, he decided that she was the one he was looking for, someone he could be with for the rest of his life.
After everyone got acquainted, because Cai Chang was about a week older than him, he called him eldest sister. Later, I met Deng Xiaoping, who was the shortest and the youngest, so he also called her eldest sister.
They often talked about their ideals together, exchanged work experiences, and would cook some clear soup noodles for supper when it was too late, and life in France was too difficult at that time.
In 1923, in the romantic capital of Paris, Li Fuchun and Cai Chang walked into a café not far from their home to celebrate their wedding.
In order not to cause trouble to others, they are ready to hold the smallest wedding in the world, with only the bride and groom.
When they arrived at the café, Deng Xiaoping suddenly burst out, and he didn't know how he learned the news, and kept shouting that he wanted to marry them.
Deng Xiaoping's family and his wife have always maintained a close friendship, and Deng Xiaoping's eldest daughter Deng Rong used to call Cai Chang "Cai's mother" when she became an adult.
After the birth of their daughter, Tete, they gave her to her grandmother to raise and devoted themselves to the revolutionary movement. In 1925, he was assigned by the organization to study in the Soviet Union for half a year, and returned to China in August to begin his career in the Chinese revolution.
The red moon of Yan'an
During the Great Revolution, Li Fuchun participated in the Northern Expeditionary Army, was responsible for political work, and accumulated rich experience in army building for the later agrarian revolution.
After the Long March arrived in northern Shaanxi, he served as deputy director of the Organization Department of the Central Committee, and the minister was Chen Yun.
At that time, the central authorities had a "258th regiment" stipulation on the marriage of cadres, that is, officers who were to marry must meet the requirements of being over 25 years old, having five years of party or military experience, and having a cadre at the regimental level or above, which was examined and approved by the organization department.
Li Fuchun naturally became the old man of Yan'an, and many senior cadres were held by him and Sister Cai Chang. For example, the marriage of Comrade Wang Jiaxiang and Comrade Zhu Zhongli is his big seal.
Li Fuchun is an all-rounder, and while serving in the Organization Department, he also serves as the head of the Finance and Economics Department and other central work. Although the work tasks were heavy, he did an excellent job of fulfilling the great trust entrusted to him by the party and never complained.
During the difficult period of the siege of the Japanese army and the economic blockade of the Kuomintang, in accordance with the deployment of the central government, he directly organized the large-scale production movement in Yan'an, and made a significant contribution to the economic recovery of the liberated areas.
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, many important cities borrowed this idea in order to restore the production of private industrial and mining enterprises.
In 1947, he was transferred to the Standing Committee of the Northeast Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and served as the secretary of the Financial and Economic Committee, making significant contributions to the liberation and economic development of the Northeast region.
His long-term economic work in the liberated areas has laid a solid foundation for his future economic construction throughout the country, and has enabled him to work with ease.
China's Industrial Revolution
There is no clear definition of the Industrial Revolution in Chinese history, but it did exist, and it was quite successful, and it happened in the early years after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Fuchun participated in the formulation of the first five-year plan, with the construction of heavy industry as the main goal, and completed China's industrialization road.
After the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the iron-blooded performance of the Chinese People's Volunteers brought Stalin to tears, and relations between the two countries quickly warmed up.
In 1952, Zhou Enlai as the head of the delegation, Chen Yun and Li Fuchun as deputy leaders, led the Chinese delegation to Moscow to negotiate 156 heavy industry, military industry and weapons and equipment.
Unfortunately, just in time for the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Soviet side did not have time to study the aid project, and the negotiations were postponed.
Zhou Enlai, Chen Yun and others had to return to China first, leaving Li Fuchun in charge of follow-up negotiations. During this period, Li Fuchun and the members of the delegation did not sit idle, but acted separately and did their best to visit and learn from the production and construction experience of relevant industrial and mining enterprises in the Soviet Union.
Until May 1953, after three consultations, Li Fuchun of the Chinese side was the main person in charge, and the Soviet side was represented by Mikoyan, and the delegations of the two sides signed an agreement on aid to the construction of 156 projects.
Li Fuchun personally supervised the implementation of all projects, and grasped them to the end, of which all 150 projects were successfully completed, and the other 6 projects could not be launched due to objective reasons.
At present, the predecessor of "China FAW", called "Changchun First Automobile Factory", is one of the projects, which was completed in only three years.
In this way, in just a few years, China completed the industrial revolution.
Li Fuchun is also known as one of the founders of socialist economic construction.
End
In the spring of 1963, Peng Zhen, secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, invited Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yi, Yang Shangkun and Li Fuchun to a small gathering, leaving this precious photo to the world.
At that time, it was the end of three years of natural disasters, the first year that the national economy began to recover, and the GDP of that year increased by 15.8 percent.
In 1975, Li Fuchun, a loyal soldier of the party, died of illness, and Deng Xiaoping personally delivered a eulogy at the farewell party of the body.
His wife, Cai Chang, gave him and all his own savings totaling 130,000 yuan, all of which were handed over to the state as party dues.
She said: "This money was given to me by the party and the people, and if we can't use it, we should return it to the organization and the people." ”
The poet Zhao Puchu inscribed a poem for him: "The cold pine and cypress are loyal through the ages." ”