Chen Yi
Chen Yi (1901-1972), alias Chen Shijun. Zodiac Sign: Cow. A native of Lezhi County, Sichuan Province.
In 1916, he was admitted to chengdu A industrial school, and in 1919, he went to France to study work-study.
In 1921, because he participated in the patriotic activities of students studying in France, he was escorted back to China by the Chinese and French governments.
In 1922, he joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League and became a member of the Communist Party of China in the same year. He successively served as the editor of Chongqing's "New Shu Bao", a student of Sino-French University in Beijing, the secretary of the CPC Committee of the Wuhan Central Military and Political School (Huangpu Military Academy Branch), and a party representative of the 73rd Regiment of the 25th Division of the 11th Army of the National Revolutionary Army (Nanchang Uprising, regimental commander Huang Haosheng).
In January 1928, he and Zhu De organized and led the "Shonan Uprising" and led his troops to Meet Mao Zedong at Jinggangshan. He successively served as party representative of the 1st Division of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army (division commander Zhu De), director of the Political Department of the 4th Army (party representative Mao Zedong, commander Zhu De) and commander of the 12th Division (party representative Deng Zonghai), director of the political department of the 4th Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, former member and acting secretary of the 4th Red Army Committee of the COMMUNIST Party of China (secretary Mao Zedong), secretary of the Military Commission of the 4th Army (commander Zhu De), member of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Committee of the Central Soviet Region (Chairman Mao Zedong), director of the Political Department of the Red 4 Army and party representative of the 1st Column (column leader Lin Biao), secretary of the CPC Gan southwest special committee. Political Commissar of the 6th Red Army in Southwest Jiangxi (Commander Huang Gongluo), Commander of the 22nd Army of the Southern Gansu Army (Political Commissar Qiu Dasan), Political Commissar of the 3rd Army of the Red 1st Army (Commander Huang Gongluo), Commander-in-Chief of the Jiangxi Military Region and Political Commissar and Commander of the Military Region (Political Commissar Li Fuchun), Executive Committee member and director of the Government Office of the First and Second Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet, member of the Central Military Commission of the Chinese Revolutionary Army (1936);
After the Long March of the main force of the Central Red Army in October 1934, he remained in the Jiangxi Soviet District. He served as a member of the Central Soviet Branch committee of the Central Military Commission of the Chinese Revolutionary Military Commission (Chairman Xiang Ying), the head of the leading organ of the Central Military Region stationed in Guangdong and Gansu, and participated in the organization and leadership of the three-year guerrilla war in the south.
During the national War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he successively served as commander of the 1st Detachment of the New Fourth Army, commander of the Jiangnan Command of the New Fourth Army, commander and political commissar of the Northern Jiangsu Command, acting commander of the Eighth Route Army General Headquarters of the New Fourth Army in Central China (commander-in-chief Ye Ting, political commissar Liu Shaoqi), deputy secretary of the New Fourth Army Branch of the Central Military Commission (Secretary Xiang Ying), acting commander of the New Fourth Army (political commissar Liu Shaoqi, acting political commissar Rao Shushi), president of the 5th Branch of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, and president of the Central China Branch of the "Kang Da".
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he successively served as commander of the New Fourth Army and commander of the Shandong Military Region (political commissar Rao Shushi), commander of the Shandong Field Army (political commissar Li Yu), commander of the East China Military Region (political commissar Rao Shushi), commander and political commissar of the East China Field Army, second secretary of the Central Plains Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, deputy commander of the Central Plains Military Region and the Central Plains Field Army (commander Liu Bocheng, political commissar Deng Xiaoping).
In November 1948, he, together with Liu Bocheng, Deng Xiaoping, Su Yu, and Tan Zhenlin, formed the General Front Committee and commanded 600,000 People's Liberation Army troops to carry out the Huaihai Campaign. After 65 days of arduous fighting, the elite kuomintang troops of 22 armies and 56 divisions totaled 555,000 people.
In February 1949, he was appointed commander and political commissar of the Third Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and in May he became the mayor of Shanghai.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as the commander of the Third Field Army and the East China Military Region, the mayor of Shanghai (1949-1958), the member of the People's Revolutionary Military Commission of the Central People's Government (1949-1954), the first secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (1950-1954), the vice premier of the State Council (1954-1972) and the minister of foreign affairs (1958-1972), the vice chairman of the Central Military Commission (1954-1972), and the vice chairman of the National Defense Commission (the first, second and third terms).
He also served as the director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the State Council, the president of the Beijing Foreign Affairs University, and the honorary president of the Chinese-People Diplomacy Society.
He is a member of the 7th, 8th and 9th Central Committees of the Communist Party of China and a member of the 8th Politburo of the Central Committee.
He was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Second National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice chairman of the Third and Fourth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
In 1955, he was awarded the rank of Marshal of the People's Republic of China, and was awarded the Order of August 1st Class, the Order of Independence and Freedom of the First Class, and the Liberation Medal of the First Class.
Order of August 1st Class, Order of Independence and Freedom, First Class, Liberation Medal, First Class
He has published Selected Military Writings of Chen Yi, Selected Poems of Chen Yi and Manuscripts of Chen Yi's Poems.
Mrs.: Zhang Qian (1922-1974), formerly known as Zhang Zhangzhu. Zodiac Sign: Dog. A native of Wuhan, Hubei Province.
He joined the New Fourth Army in Nanchang in 1938 and joined the Communist Party of China in 1940. He once served as a propagandist of the Political Department of the Jiangnan Headquarters of the New Fourth Army, a propaganda officer of the Political Department of the Central China Branch of the "Kang Da", an instructor of the Ministry of Health of the New Fourth Army, a deputy coordinator of the shandong field army's direct subordinate team, an editor of Shanghai New Literature and Art Publishing House, and an editor of Beijing People's Literature Publishing House.
Chen Yi and his wife Zhang Qian took a group photo
Mao Zedong, Song Qingling, Deng Yingchao and others attended Chen Yi's memorial service