Cai Bo
In the spring of 1946, Cai Bo and others, who were studying at the Moscow Iron and Steel Institute, received a letter from relatives in the motherland thousands of miles away, which Mao Zedong wrote on January 8, 1946.
The letter said: New China needs a lot of scholars and technicians, and it is appropriate for you to work hard in this regard.
Here, I can only write a few words to you, in short, I hope that you will grow day by day, be strong, happy, and progress;
I also hope that you will unite all the young Chinese friends who stayed in the Soviet Union, study hard, and return to China to serve in the future.
This year, Cai Bo was 22 years old, and as the children of martyrs, his parents were the founders of the Communist Party of China, Cai Hesen and Xiang Jingyu.
Coupled with the fact that Mao Zedong and Cai and Sen were both fellow hunan compatriots and both studied under Yang Changji when they were young, cai bo felt even more extraordinary when he received such a passionate letter.
At that time, China, although after 14 years of bloody struggle to drive the Japanese away, and the Two Sides had just negotiated in the autumn of 1945.
The people of the whole country are still immersed in the joy after the victory of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and their infinite vision of the future new China, but the clouds of civil war have begun to fill.
Cai Bo was far away in the Soviet Union and learned a professional skill, but there was no peaceful and stable construction environment in China at all.
He knew very well that as a descendant of revolutionaries, no matter what kind of environment he faced, he must be indomitable and courageous.
This affection may have been inherited from his parents, but from the time he remembered, he often saw his grandmother, who at that time in his hometown of Shuangfeng in Hunan, he could occasionally listen to his aunt talk about the glorious deeds of his parents.
Cai Bo's parents, especially his mother Xiang Jingyu, in Pupu County, who did not know that it was an unusually solid family.
The elementary school she attended was founded by her eldest brother. At that time, the Qing Dynasty was already surviving, and all kinds of new ideas poured in, and Xiangjia was an enlightened family, and women could still read and write.
Xiang Jingyu later went to Changsha and studied at the First and Third Girls' Normal School and the Zhounan Girls' School. It was during this period that she met Mao Zedong, Cai Hesen, Cai Chang and others. By the XiangJiang River, Qia classmates were teenagers, and it was really a prosperous era.
Although the Qing Dynasty had been overthrown, the Beiyang warlords soon stole the fruits of the revolution, and China was still in the midst of war and strife.
Their young students are always thinking about where China should go in the future.
In April 1918, Cai Bo's father, Cai Hesen, and Mao Zedong formally established the Revolutionary Group Xinmin Society.
In the second year, Xiang Jianyu also joined in, and at that time, the main goal of their group was to actively plan to go to France for work-study.
With the help of teacher Yang Changji and then Peking University President Cai Yuanpei and others, these young people finally raised funds.
Cai Hesen, Cai Chang, Xiang Jingyu and others went to France together.
In that distant country, it is not only the place where these young people's revolutionary dreams began, but also the place where Cai and Sen and Xiang Jianyu witnessed the love and marriage of the two people.
After Cai Bo grew up, he listened to his aunt Cai Chang many times about their study in France. Although the conditions for work-study are very difficult, their hearts are still full of high morale.
After all, there is nothing more important than having an ideal in mind that makes people stick to their original intentions.
Cai Bo's father Cai Hesen
In May 1920, just as the grass was flying, Montagny, Cai hesen and Xiang Jingyu of France, two young people born in the same year, with the same revolutionary ideals, finally came together.
At that time, when they were taking wedding photos, the two people also held a copy of "Capital" together. Although the wedding is simple, there is nothing happier than the same ideal that makes the two come together.
They will also compile and print a book of poems given to each other during the love affair and give them to classmates and friends in France. And the students also wished the couple to be "allies to Cai".
In July of the same year, the members of the Xinmin Society in France held a meeting, at which Cai hesen clearly proposed that if he wanted to change the old China, he should act immediately like Russia.
In this way, a group of young people found a cure for China.
A month later, Cai hesen wrote a letter to Mao Zedong at home, clearly stating his point of view: It is necessary to organize and establish the Communist Party first, and with the organization, the revolutionary movement, the labor movement, and so on will have a nerve center.
Cai Bo's mother gave the police a warning
Since then, Cai and Sen and his wife have begun to write letters to student organizations in France, explaining the urgency of forming a Communist Party.
In September of the same year, Cai and Sen again wrote a long letter to Mao Zedong detailing the Program and Organizational Structure of the Communist Party of China.
He believes that the Communist Party of China must also be established quickly.
It was Cai and Sen and Xiang Jingyu who pushed them to become one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party.
Years later, when Mao Zedong told Snow about the history of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in Yan'an, he said that Xiang Jianyu was the only female founder of the Chinese Communist Party.
At the end of 1921, Cai and Sen and Xiang Jingyu returned from France, and after returning to Shanghai, they officially joined the Communist Party of China.
In July of that year, they attended the Second Congress of the Communist Party of China, with Cai and Sen serving as propaganda minister and Xiang Jianyu as minister for women.
Xiang Jingyu, Cai and Sen wedding photos
At that time, they rented in the Shanghai Public Concession, and Cai and Sen were responsible for editing the central government's organ publication, The Guide.
Due to the harsh conditions, they don't even have heating equipment in winter. However, with the birth of their daughter, it brought endless joy to the two.
New life heralds new hope, and the newly founded Communist Party of China is the new hope for all of China.
In 1924, their son Cai Bo was born. At that time, Xiang Jianyu traveled to the major factories in Shanghai to organize and mobilize women to fight for their rights against the capitalists.
In the summer of that year, Xiang Led the Shanghai Silk Factory in a strike struggle of 15,000 women. In July, she led more than 7,000 workers at the Nanyang Tobacco Factory to organize a general strike.
She devoted all her energies to the cause of the revolution, and the care of her son and daughter could only be entrusted to her family.
In 1925, Xiang Jingyu went to Chongyang to study at the Communist University of Eastern Workers in Moscow.
Far from her relatives and children, her heart will naturally rise up with infinite sorrow, but for the sake of the revolutionary cause, many times personal sacrifice is necessary.
The first left in the front row is Cai Bo, the second left is Cai Ni, and the left one in the back row is Xiang Police
In March 1927, Xiang Jingyu returned from studying in Moscow, rushed from Guangzhou to Wuhan, and visited the Cai family and two children while passing through Changsha, which was also the only family photo.
During his studies in Moscow, the tide of the Great Revolution in the country was in full swing. With the opening of the Northern Expedition and the victory of the revolution, the long-awaited new China seems to be about to appear.
In 1927, Xiang Returned to China and worked in the Propaganda Department of the Hankou Municipal Party Committee.
However, just as people were looking forward to the victory of the revolution, the right wing of the National Government betrayed the revolution, and white terror immediately enveloped the whole country.
The party organization repeatedly advised Xiang Jingyu to leave Wuhan, but she insisted on staying and continuing to fight.
Wuhan is an important stronghold of our party, many comrades have sacrificed here, if they leave, it is equivalent to showing weakness to the enemy, so Xiang Jingyu did not leave Wuhan.
During the more than a year of fighting, Xiang Police often personally went to the workers' homes to organize mobilization.
At the end of 1927, the riot they organized failed, the provincial party organs were destroyed, many comrades were arrested and sacrificed, and Xiang Jingyu still insisted.
Cai Hesen, Xiang Jingyu and other members of the New People's Society who studied in France took a group photo
In March 1928, because of the betrayal of traitors, Xiang Jingyu was arrested along with her assistant Chen Huanqiao. At that time, her daughter was 6 years old and her son was only 4 years old.
However, Xiang Jingyu was already determined to see death as a homecoming, and the enemy's coercion and inducement and torture failed to make her betray her faith.
On Labor Day in 1928, the 33-year-old Xiang Police was heroically righteous.
After Cai Bo gradually grew up and understood things, every year on May Day Labor Day, his heart not only had a deep miss for his mother, but also had a deep pride in his mother.
After all, the mother's sacrifice was for the sake of millions of toiling masses, for a new country.
At the time of the sacrifice of Xiang Police, Cai Hesen was in Moscow, and he wrote a eulogy "Biography to Comrade Xiang Police" with a sad heart.
In 1931, Cai and Sen arrived in Guangdong, when the situation in Guangzhou was very tense, and the provincial party secretary Deng Fa was arrested, and the provincial party committee had to be temporarily located in Hong Kong.
Former site of the International Children's College of Ivanovo in the USSR
In June of that year, Hong Kong's seafarers were to hold a mass rally, and the provincial party committee thought the situation was bad and Tsai and Sen had better not participate.
However, Cai and Sen insisted on going forward, and after entering the venue, they were arrested by agents led by the traitor Gu Shunzhang.
At that time, Hong Kong was a British colony, and the organization originally hoped to bail Cai and Sen, but Cai and Sen were soon escorted back to Guangdong. Under the orders of the Guangdong warlord Chen Jitang, Cai and Sen bravely rebelled.
The death of both parents has left young children orphaned in the world. However, this revolutionary feeling of sacrificing for the ideal, as Cai Bo and his sister grew up, also became their courage to face life.
His parents died one after another, and Cai Bo lived for a long time in his hometown of Shuangfeng in Hunan. Although he lost his parents, there are still many cousins and sisters in the family, and in the care and care of his relatives, Cai Bo has gradually grown up.
When he was in elementary school, he studied in Twin Peaks, and then he was admitted to Xiangxiang Middle School. As he grew older, he certainly understood the reason for the sacrifice of his parents.
Children at the International Children's Academy
At that time, the country was still in the midst of internal and external troubles, and Cai Bo knew very well that only by studying hard and thriving could he inherit his parents' legacy and continue to do their unfinished business.
Subsequently, under the arrangement of the organization, Cai Bo, along with other revolutionaries and descendants of martyrs, went to the Soviet Union and studied at the Ivanovo International Children's College.
At that time, the Soviet Union was the center of the Communist International, and not only the descendants of the Chinese Communist Party studied in the Soviet Union, but also the children of other Communist Parties in the Soviet Union.
At the 10-year International Children's College, Cai Bo excelled in his studies, and at that time, he also served as the chairman of the Chinese Children's Committee in the college.
At that time, during the Second World War, the living conditions of the college were extremely difficult, and due to the impact of the war, the city of Ivanovo, where the college was located, was rationed, and the food distributed by Cai Bo and other Soviet citizens was very poor.
In winter, they also have to go to the forest to cut wood for heating.
When chinese children attended the Children's College grew up
But it was such harsh conditions that Cai Bo and the children of the descendants of the revolution persisted.
In the autumn of 1943, Cai Bo successfully graduated from the academy and was successfully admitted to the Moscow Iron and Steel Institute, where he applied for the ironmaking major of the Department of Metallurgy.
He knew that after the liberation of the motherland, industry must develop from scratch, and it is very crucial to learn the steel profession well.
That year, Cai Bo was 19 years old, and he was the initiator of the Association of Students Studying in the Soviet Union in school, and because of his excellent academic performance, he was able to get a scholarship every year.
When he received a letter from Mao Zedong at home, Cai Bo had not yet graduated. The letter gave him great encouragement, and over the next two years or so he studied even harder.
In 1948, Cai Bo successfully graduated from the Iron and Steel Institute with a degree of iron and metallurgical engineer. But at that time the Liberation War was at its most critical juncture, and for security reasons, the organization decided to let him stay in the Soviet Union for the time being.
Statues of martyrs are presented to the police
After the founding of New China, Cai Bo returned with full enthusiasm for building the motherland. According to his major, he was assigned to work at the Anshan Iron and Steel Works.
The new China that his father and mother imagined at that time finally became a reality, and for Cai Bo, only hard work can comfort their heroic souls.
At that time, the northeast was the base of heavy industry in China, and many key projects aided by the Soviet Union were also located in the northeast. After coming to Anshan Iron and Steel Factory, Cai Bo successively served as deputy director and director of the plant.
He soon became the first generation of metallurgical experts in New China in the actual post, Cai Bo according to the actual situation of Anshan Iron and Steel Plant, successfully applied the Soviet Union's steelmaking technology and management experience to the factory, not only improved the output of steel, but also greatly improved the management efficiency of the factory.
Tsai and Sen Memorial
In order to strengthen the management of enterprises and further improve efficiency and output, he subsequently proposed and implemented the factory director responsibility system, which was quite bold in the era of secretarial responsibility.
Subsequently, he further established the "three-level and one-chief" responsibility system for the establishment of factory directors, workshop supervisors and section chiefs.
This management model made Anshan Iron and Steel Plant quickly become a leader in the national steel field. And the relevant mature management experience has also been promoted through the National Metallurgical Conference.
However, the good times did not last long, because the factory director responsibility system proposed by Cai Bo was later criticized, and he not only suffered wrong criticism, but also was removed from the leadership position.
But Cai Bo did not give up, there is no leadership position, then engage in steel related scientific research work.
In the 1960s, it was under his presidency that many production difficulties in the steel field were overcome one by one.
Anshan Iron and Steel Factory at the beginning of the founding of New China
During the special period, Cai Bo was not spared, he was beaten into a so-called revisionist, and he was controlled to work.
It was not until the late 1970s that Cai Bo was rehabilitated.
Since then, he has served as a technical advisor to the Iron and Steel Research Institute and written the book "Thirty Years of Ironmaking Research of the Iron and Steel Research Institute".
In 1984, Cai Bo, who was the year of Hua Jia, officially retreated to the second line, and he participated in the strategic research of the steel industry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
In the years that followed, he worked on the research of his parents, Cai Hesen, and Xiang Jingyu.
In September 1991, at the age of 67, Cai Bo returned to Shuangfeng, Hunan Province, to participate in activities related to the first anniversary of the death of his aunt Cai Chang. However, soon after returning to Beijing, he suddenly suffered a heart attack and unfortunately died.
In 1985, Cai Bo took a photo with his wife Song Baoying and his daughter
Cai Bo's life has struggled in the field of steel smelting. If his parents' dream was to create a beautiful new China, then he has been working in the field of steel production for decades, and he is silently building a new China.
As a descendant of a revolutionary, his parents' ideals have been realized, and he has also used his practical actions and professional skills to embellish the dreams of his parents and countless revolutionary martyrs.
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