Song Renqian was an outstanding political worker cadre in the new Chinese army, who held senior leadership positions in the army from the time of the Red Army to 1955.
In 1956, he left the army to embark on a more than two decades of civilian career.
Many people do not know that Song Renqian has not worked for 10 years, and once applied to the old chief to work, but it did not come to fruition. It was not until 1977, under the recommendation of Zhang Aiping, that he made a comeback.
In 1974, on the eve of the National Day, Song Renqiang received a notice to secretly return to Beijing and live in the guest house of the Organization Department. He was not free, and there were people around him who followed him all the time.
On September 30, I attended the National Day reception and met Premier Zhou, who had been away for many years. Because his problems had not yet been implemented, he did not talk directly to Premier Zhou, but asked people to hand over a letter to him.
At that time, there was an unwritten rule that an old comrade who stood on the sidelines could attend a reception on National Day or May Day, which was equivalent to saying to the outside world that this person could return to work.
Song Renqian stayed in Beijing after attending the conference, and by 1975, Deng Xiaoping had been appointed vice premier, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, chief of the general staff, and presided over the daily work of the State Council. Premier Zhou at the time was hospitalized in poor health.
Under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, all aspects of work have been comprehensively straightened out and remarkable results have been achieved, and many veteran cadres have returned to their posts. Song Renqian was an old subordinate of Deng Xiaoping and wanted to come out to work as soon as possible, but he had not worked for 8 years since he was beaten as a "bourgeois roader" in 1967.
Not long after, Deng Xiaoping said that he was only responsible for "liberation" and allowed himself to return to Beijing, expressing incompetence and powerlessness in the work arrangement.
Why is deng xiaoping, who is in charge of the daily work of the State Council, unable to solve his work?
Before Song Renqian stood on the sidelines, he served as the first secretary of the Northeast Bureau, which can be said to be a high authority. In his work, he also made mistakes, like the masses are divided into two factions, he supports one faction, suppresses one faction, and has done a review. Later, his problems escalated, saying that he was the number one capitalist in the northeast to promote revisionism.
Although Song Renqian was "liberated," his historical conclusions were still problematic. Under such circumstances, it was normal that heavy responsibilities could not be entrusted, and it was difficult for Deng Xiaoping to do so.
In this way, Song Ren was idle at home and was very depressed until 1977. Deng Xiaoping made his third comeback and began to rectify the chaos. Zhang Aiping, director of the Science and Technology Commission for National Defense, introduced to the central authorities to assign Song Renqian to work as soon as possible, and pushed him to serve as the director of the Seventh Machine Department.
The Seventh Machine Department is responsible for aerospace, why did Song Renqian do scientific and technological work?
Speaking of which, this goes back to before he became the secretary of the Northeast Bureau, when he was appointed by Chairman Mao as the director of the Second Machine Department, which was responsible for the atomic bomb project.
Although aerospace and the atomic industry belong to different fields, they are both high-end technologies. Song Renqian was also responsible because he had been responsible for cutting-edge national defense technology.
In fact, the central authorities are still thinking about restoring Song Renqian to work, and the problem of comparing him has not been completely solved, and under Zhang Aiping's repeated insistence, Song Renqian has taken up the historical issue.
In February 1201, he was elected vice chairman of the CPPCC National Committee and head of the Central Organization Department, responsible for rectifying the chaos. When rectifying the chaos, his historical problems have not been solved, so he will first help people solve them, which is very valuable. It wasn't until 1980 that his problem was solved. In 1983, he voluntarily applied to take a second-tier position.