Huang Luofeng, a red publisher from Yunnan

Author: Zheng Qianshan

Huang Luofeng (1909-1980), formerly known as Huang Que (黄垲), also known as Zhaoyuan ,was a native of Heqing County, Yunnan. In 1921, he was admitted to the Heqing County Higher Primary School, and the following year he accompanied the Ma Gang, "Traveling far and wide, the boy must gallop in all directions." From Heqing to Kunming, he was admitted to the private Chengde Middle School and the Yunnan Provincial First Middle School. Yunnan Provincial No. 1 Middle School was the "revolutionary cradle" of the early Red Revolution in Yunnan, and a large number of early Communist Party members such as Chu Tunan, Li Guozhu, Ai Siqi, Yang Qingtian, Liu Pingkai, Zhang Yonghe, Zhao Rong, Ke Zhongping, Zhang Tianxu, yan Yingwu, and so on emerged among the teachers and students. During his time in school, Huang Luofeng often read revolutionary newspapers and periodicals such as "Guide" and "Chinese Youth" and participated in the "Youth Hard Work Reading Club" and became the backbone of the school's student union.

After the May Thirtieth Massacre in 1925, he actively participated in the anti-imperialist patriotic movement, and after Chiang Kai-shek's "April 12" counter-revolutionary coup in 1927, in the face of the bloody rain that enveloped the whole country, Huang Luofeng resolutely joined the Chinese Communist Youth League in May and the Communist Party of China in August. At the end of the same year, he was dispatched by the party organization to Yimen and other places to carry out party work, and in 1928 he served as the secretary of the special committee of the three counties of Yimen, Anning and Lufeng of the CPC, and under the cover of teaching, he founded the first party branch of the CPC Yimen County branch in central Yunnan and served as the secretary, leading the peasant movement. In October 1928, Huang Luofeng participated as an official representative in the first congress of the Communist Party of China in Yunnan held in Mengzi Chanippi, and in the autumn of the same year, he served as the secretary of the Kunming Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Youth League, leading the youth and student movement in Kunming, contacting Li Guozhu, the first communist party member in Yunnan, and holding a series of progressive activities. In 1929, together with his friend Aischi, he organized the establishment of the "Yunnan Book Newspaper" to distribute Marxist books and periodicals. In 1930, with the approval of the party organization, he traveled east to Japan to study and joined the special branch of students studying in Tokyo, China. After the "918" incident in 1931, Huang Luofeng angrily abandoned his studies and returned to China, and under the leadership of the party, he joined the "Shanghai People's Anti-Japanese National Salvation Federation" and served as the secretary general, actively participating in the anti-Japanese salvation movement.

In 1934, he edited the magazines "Learn to Live" and "Southwest Wind" in Beiping, promoting patriotism and progressive ideas. In January 1936, he participated in the editing and publication of the magazine "Reading Life". In January 1937, he was invited to found the Reading Publishing House together with Aischi and Zheng Yili, and served as the general manager (Aischi was the editor-in-chief and Zheng Yili was the chairman). In this position, where the dissemination of Marxism is the long-term task and the propaganda of the Anti-Japanese Struggle to Save the Country is the realistic task, he has devoted himself to making contributions to the people's publishing cause under the leadership of the party. Under his auspices with Aischi and Zheng Yili, the publishing house has published a large number of progressive books and systematically published Marxist classics. Among them, the most prominent is the publication of the first Chinese full translation of "Capital" and Aischi's "Philosophy of the Masses", which has become a landmark event in the publishing history of the Communist Party of China. In addition, the publishing house has also published a large number of Marxist works, such as "Engels on Capital", "Capital Correspondence Collection", "Karl Marx", "Engels Biography", "History of the Theory of Surplus Value", Lenin's "Materialism and Empirical Criticism", "Socialism and War", "Lenin's Biography", "Basic Problems of Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism", and so on, making major contributions to the spread of Marxism-Leninism in China.

In October 1938, Huang Luofeng went to Chongqing to be responsible for the liaison between the National News Agency and the Cultural Group of the Southern Bureau, and also responsible for the liaison work with the Yunnan Provincial Working Committee of the Communist Party of China. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Huang Luofeng actively participated in the anti-civil war and anti-dictatorship patriotic democratic movement in Chongqing's cultural publishing circles, and in October 1948, according to the instructions of the party, the three bookstores of life, new knowledge and reading were officially established in Hong Kong, and Huang Luofeng served as the chairman of the provisional management committee of Sanlian Bookstore.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Huang Luofeng served as the first director of the Publishing Bureau of the General Administration of Publications established by the central government, the general manager of Xinhua Bookstore in April 1950, and the director of the Publishing Bureau of the Ministry of Culture in 1954. Later, he served as the chairman of the Publishing Committee of the Central Propaganda Department, the dean of the Cultural College of the Ministry of Culture, and the vice chairman of the China Publishers Association. He is a deputy to the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a deputy to the First National People's Congress, and a member of the Third to Fifth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He has made outstanding contributions to the publishing industry of New China. He died on November 4, 1980.

Huang Luofeng has worked hard for the party's publishing cause all his life, enjoyed a lofty reputation in the publishing industry, is an outstanding representative of the party and the people's publishing cause, is a well-deserved red publisher in the revolutionary publishing cause under the leadership of the party, and is the pride of yunnan people.