Lu Yunlong: Secretary of the Lanzhou Municipal Party Committee who was persecuted to death during the "rescue campaign" in Yan'an

Wen\Yuan Zhixue

Lu Yunlong

Lu Yunlong (1915-1942), formerly known as Lu Jing'an, was born in 1915 in Shanggucheng Village, Jinya Township, Yuzhong County. At an early age, he was eager to learn and had excellent grades. After graduating from Jinya Primary School in 1929, he was admitted to Lanzhou Provincial No. 1 Middle School in the spring of 1930. During the school period, he loves to learn, reads a lot of books, often wins the first class scholarship of the school; likes to play basketball, is a member of a middle school basketball team; is honest and proud, treats people with simplicity and kindness, is good at uniting classmates; often cares about current affairs, reading progressive books and periodicals such as "Middle School Students" and "Reading Monthly". In 1935, when he was about to graduate from high school, he was forced to drop out of school due to family difficulties. In 1936, he was admitted to the Ganning Electric Administration Bureau, and was responsible for managing and maintaining the transmitter at the radio station of Gaobei Temple in Nanguan, Lanzhou. During this period, together with Lu Changlin, Chen Chengyi, and other seniors who had graduated from various universities in Beijing and returned to Lanzhou, they paid close attention to current affairs, listened to their analysis of the situation inside and outside the province and the nature of the Kuomintang reactionaries, and sought ways and paths to save the country and the people.

In August 1937, the Eighth Route Army office in Gansu was established, and in October of the same year, the Gansu Working Committee of the Communist Party of China was established. Lu Yunlong heard that the Eighth Route Army was an anti-Japanese detachment, went to the office of the Eighth Route Army in Lanzhou, and met His classmates who had embarked on the revolutionary journey first, his fellow villagers, and members of the Organization Committee of the Gansu Working Committee of the CPC. Under the help and guidance of Zheng Zhengyuan's care and guidance, his ideological consciousness continued to improve, and his revolutionary conviction became increasingly firm, and he joined the Communist Party of China in the winter of 1937 after being introduced by Chongyuan.

After joining the party, Lu Yunlong was incorporated into the lanzhou urban subdistrict party branch, with Yin Younian as the secretary of the branch, Lu Yunlong as the organizing committee member, and He Jinmin as the propaganda committee member. Lu Yunlong worked hard for the party, actively participated in open and secret mass activities, recruited party members, conscientiously read progressive books and periodicals and the party's classic works, and gradually tempered and grew into outstanding revolutionary workers through revolutionary practice. At the beginning of 1938, Yin Younian went to Yan'an, and the street party branch was renamed the post and telecommunications party branch, and Lu Yunlong served as the secretary of the branch. In order to strengthen the work of the party in the cities, establish and develop party organizations in the middle and lower strata, especially among the water servants and industrial workers, and promote the continuous development of the anti-Japanese salvation movement, in April 1938, the Gansu Working Committee of the CPC decided to establish the Lanzhou Municipal Party Committee, with Zheng Zhengyuan concurrently serving as the secretary of the municipal party committee, Zhao Ziming in charge of the organizational work, and Lu Yunlong in charge of propaganda work. The Lanzhou Municipal Party Committee has 4 school branches, and then established 3 factory branches and 2 street branches. In August of the same year, Chen Chengyi was appointed secretary of the Lanzhou Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China. In September 1939, Chen Chengyi left Lanzhou for Yan'an, and Lu Yunlong took over as secretary of the Lanzhou Municipal Party Committee. Lu Yunlong held workers' literacy classes at night, teaching class brothers to read and write free of charge; helped printing workers to raise their cultural and class consciousness and take the initiative to solve the practical difficulties in the lives of comrades; he also often used his spare time to organize young party members to study the nature of the party and the party's program; and educated and encouraged comrades to strengthen their revolutionary will with the heroic deeds of revolutionary martyrs. During this period, Lu Yunlong focused his work on the ideological education of the party members of the printing workers' branch who were more active in the revolutionary activities at that time, and at the same time guided the underground work of the party in the automobile factory of the Northwest Highway Bureau, organized and mobilized the workers to carry out political struggle with the factory, which attracted the attention of the Kuomintang diehards. Lu Yunlong asked Liang Chaorong and other progressive young workers to go to some places in the suburbs to talk to them, introduce them to the organization, tasks, and policies of the Communist Party, and recommend some books, such as "The Life of Young Workers in the Soviet Union" and "The Life of Young Women." The workers began to know the Communist Party, that the Communist Party was a completely different party from the Kuomintang, that the Communist Party was a party that allowed the poor masses to live a good life, and that only under the leadership of the Communist Party could the Japanese aggressors be driven out and the evil system of exploitation and oppression of man be eliminated. During the struggle, Lu Yunlong grasped the situation and paid attention to tactics, transferred Zhen Tinglan, the secretary of the party branch of the automobile factory who had exposed his identity, out of Lanzhou, and at the same time guided the workers to shift the goal of the struggle from political issues to economic issues, avoiding dangers and unnecessary sacrifices.

After the Gansu Working Committee of the Communist Party of China was seriously damaged in June 1940, the party organization decided that Lu Yunlong would immediately leave Lanzhou for Yan'an. After arriving in Yan'an, Lu Yunlong first studied at the Central Party School for half a year, and in December 1940 he was assigned to work in the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, and in 1941 he was transferred to the Shaanxi-Gansu Group of the Democratic Movement Department of the Northwest Bureau. During the "rescue campaign" that took place during the Yan'an rectification in 1942, the Gansu underground party was slandered by Kang Sheng and his gang as the "Red Flag Party." After six days and six nights of "wheel war" and threats of "fake shooting," as well as the temptation to "confess that you can retain your party membership," Zhang Keqin (Fan Dawei), who was only 19 years old, was forced to confess that the Gansu underground party was a "red flag party" that was waving a red flag and opposing the red flag, and that it was a product of the Kuomintang's "red flag policy." In this regard, Kang Sheng, if he had obtained the most precious treasure, let Zhang Keqin ride a high-headed horse, wear a red flower, and give a speech at various organs and schools to introduce his "secret agent" experience and the process of repentance. Kang Sheng went around preaching that the "red flag policy" was a new tactic of the Kuomintang toward the Communist Party's policy of internal traitors, thus coming to the erroneous conclusion that the party organizations in the Kuomintang-ruled areas were unreliable and had to be re-evaluated, and immediately launched a large-scale investigation, arresting and detaining underground party members from Gansu, Henan, Hubei, and other places, and those who he considered suspicious, interrogating and extorting confessions, resulting in the complete paralysis of the newly established Ganning Working Committee of the CPC, the arrest and imprisonment of members of the underground party in Gansu, or quarantine for examination, and the majority of them being put on "traitors." The hat of the "secret agent" was physically and mentally injured, among which Lu Yunlong, Chen Rui (female), and Yu Qian were persecuted to death, which made people strangle their wrists.

Lu Yunlong's short life was a life of revolution, a life of pursuing progress, a life of loyalty to the party, and loyalty to the people.

Memorial Hall of the Lanzhou Office of the Eighth Route Army