Li Jiansheng, formerly known as Li Zhenqing, was born in August 1920 to a peasant family in Xianggongtang Village, Boxing County. The family of five lived on 4 acres of thin land planted by their father. In 1928, Li Jiansheng entered the village primary school, and was later admitted to boxing county senior primary school. After graduating from high school, he studied at the five-county joint village teacher training school with low tuition fees. After the July 7 Incident, the Japanese army invaded the Central Plains, and the rural normal school was suspended. Li Jiansheng had to drop out of school and return home to work as a primary school teacher in his village. In 1938, due to the chaos of the situation, the primary school was dissolved, and Li Jiansheng returned home to work as a farmer.
In 1939, the Japanese army invaded the county seat of Boxing and set up a stronghold in the surrounding area. The village of Xianggongtang, where Li Jiansheng is located, is less than ten miles away from the county seat where the Japanese and puppets are heavily garrisoned, and they are often "swept up" by the Japanese and puppets, and the villagers live under the dual oppression of feudal forces and colonial rule.
Li Jiansheng
In 1940, three detachments of the Shandong Column of the Eighth Route Army established an anti-Japanese base area in the north of Boxing, and the village of Xianggongtang, located on the edge of the Boxing anti-Japanese base area, had anti-Japanese activities led by the Communist Party. At this time, Li Jiansheng's classmate Ma Hua, in his capacity as the head of the district party committee, found him, briefed him on the all-round war of resistance advocated by the Communist Party, and encouraged Li Jiansheng to participate in anti-Japanese activities. Li Jiansheng immediately said: "Participating in the anti-Japanese rescue activities is to fight the devils, and I am very willing to participate." Inspired and guided by Ma Hua, Li Jiansheng gained a deep understanding of the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army under its leadership, began to actively participate in the anti-Japanese activities led by the party, and joined the village youth rescue association. In July 1940, Li Jiansheng was introduced by Ma Hua to join the Communist Party of China.
In August 1940, at the active request of Li Jiansheng, the Boxing County Party Committee approved him to formally leave work to participate in revolutionary work, and appointed him as the chief of the propaganda section of the Boxing Three District Committee. Having just left his family and joined the revolutionary camp, Although Li Jiansheng did not have much theoretical knowledge and work experience, his revolutionary enthusiasm was high and his work was full of vigor. The party organization's evaluation of him is: work hard and be loyal to the party.
The first county magistrate of boxing county in the anti-Japanese civil government
In 1941, in order to strengthen the educational work in the anti-Japanese base areas, the anti-Japanese democratic government of Boxing County decided to establish the First Anti-Japanese Primary School in Chunhua Town, and established the Party Branch of the First Anti-Japanese Primary School, and transferred Li Jiansheng to serve as the secretary of the party branch and a teacher. Li Jiansheng did the ideological education work of the old teaching staff while teaching. At the same time, he also successively invited Jing Xiaocun, secretary of the Qinghe District CPC Committee, Li Renfeng, director of the Bureau, and Xiang Wei, Gao Xinghua, and Zhang Zhutian, the three governors of the Anti-Japanese Democratic Government of Boxing County, to make reports at the school. The school enrolled 80 students in 1941 and expanded to 120 in 1942. With the strong support of the anti-Japanese democratic government, the scale of the school has been continuously expanded, and the quality of all the teaching staff has been greatly improved. While educating students on cultural knowledge, Li Jiansheng and others also organized students to conduct military training, participate in productive labor, and go to the countryside to carry out policy propaganda, so as to actively contribute to the anti-Japanese struggle.
In August 1943, the Japanese and puppets frantically "swept up" and "encroached" on the Boxing Anti-Japanese Base Area, and the First Anti-Japanese Primary School in Boxing County was forced to break up into pieces and disperse to various villages to run schools. Li Jiansheng was transferred to the post of deputy secretary of the boxing third district party committee and head of the organization section, and soon after his arrival, the anti-"encroachment" struggle in Qinghe District won a decisive victory, and the situation in the Boxing anti-Japanese base area greatly improved. In the autumn of 1943, the county party committee conveyed Mao Zedong's "Report on the Examination of the Peasant Movement in Hunan" and the Qinghe District Party Committee's instructions on Mobilizing the Masses to Carry Out the Struggle Against feudal Forces. Li Jiansheng actively responded to the call of his superiors and participated in leading rent and interest reductions, anti-corruption, anti-bullying, mobilization to join the army, and large-scale production campaigns.
In March 1944, Li Jiansheng was appointed by the Boxing County Party Committee as the secretary of the Third District Party Committee. He actively mobilized the masses and led a series of mass movements. With the continuous deepening of the movement, the ideological consciousness of the broad masses of poor peasants has been greatly enhanced, and they have been able to boldly struggle against the feudal forces; a new atmosphere of turning over the peasants as masters of their own affairs, actively developing production, and supporting the War of Resistance has emerged everywhere in the base areas, and model workers such as Wang Fengxiang and Han Xiuzhen have emerged one after another. In his work, he also promptly discovered and corrected the "Left" mistake of blindly optimistic and over-the-top soviet collective farm-style agricultural cooperatives in some villages in the large-scale production movement, thus ensuring the smooth development of the large-scale production movement in the three districts in the right direction. Seeing that the situation in the base areas was very good, Li Jiansheng's enthusiasm and vigor for work were even higher, and good results were achieved in all aspects of work.
Large-scale production movement
In 1945, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered the stage of strategic counteroffensive, and the situation in the Boxing Anti-Japanese Base Area further improved, and everywhere there was a busy scene of greeting victory. The party and government organs and troops of Boxing County have long been stationed in the Area of Chen Hudian in the Third District of Boxing to rest and train, preparing for the all-round counteroffensive of the War of Resistance Against Japan. As the secretary of the three district party committees, Li Jiansheng, in addition to leading the daily work of the district, also shoulders the heavy responsibility of providing reliable logistical support for the party and government organs and troops in the county, and cooperating with the county party committee and the county government to carry out a series of activities. From March 1945 to May 1945, with the assistance of the vast number of cadres and masses in the three districts led by Li Jiansheng, the county party committee successively held a meeting to promote the large-scale production movement and a meeting to execute 10,000 people in Wangjiaguanzhuang and Chenhudian in the three districts. However, a series of activities carried out by Boxing County in the three districts attracted the attention of the Japanese puppet army. On May 21, while the main force of the Boxing Independent Battalion was accompanying the troops of the Bohai Naval Region to attack Zhang Jingyue's department, the Japanese and puppets suddenly gathered more than 5,000 troops to surround the party, government, and military organs of Boxing County, as well as the party and government organs and district squadrons of the three districts stationed in the Area of Chenhu. Li Jiansheng led the district squadron and the independent battalion to cover wang Xiaoyu, secretary of the county party committee, and other county party committee personnel to fight hard and break through from the Wang family official village. During the battle, Li Jiansheng was wounded twice.
Chenhu Revolutionary Martyrs Memorial Tower
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the party, government and military organs of Boxing County were moved to the county seat. In October 1945, Li Jiansheng was transferred to the propaganda department of the Boxing County Party Committee, and from February 1948, he was appointed deputy secretary of the county party committee and director of propaganda. During this period, he gave full play to the initiative of the propaganda departments, held various training courses for grass-roots propaganda backbones, and used various forms to publicize the party's principles and policies and the deeds of exemplary figures who emerged in the large-scale joining the army, large-scale production, and pre-support movements. In order to better publicize the advanced and spur the backward progress, under his leadership, the Propaganda Department of the county party committee compiled into a script some of the advanced figures and advanced deeds that emerged in the mass movement, such as the Lü opera "Yin Hongying Sends Lang to Join the Army" and other districts to organize performances. In order to publicize the party's policies, grass-roots cadres were called upon to teach and sing revolutionary songs to the vast number of young people and children's league members, such as "The Eighth Route Army, the independent battalion, who participates in the glory of whom...". Through a period of organizational mobilization, at that time, there were theatrical performances in the Liberated Areas to publicize new people and new things, and almost everyone could sing revolutionary songs.
Yin Hongying's family group photo
In February 1949, Li Jiansheng was transferred to the Bohai District Party Training Class. During this period, he led the training of a large number of grass-roots party cadres and successfully completed the training tasks. Through running the school, his theoretical level and ideological consciousness have also been significantly improved. In the winter of 1950, he was transferred to the chief of the Policy Research Office of the Land Reform Headquarters of the Zibo Prefectural Committee, and participated in and led the work of ending the land reform. In July 1951, he was appointed deputy director of the secretariat and director of the office of the Zibo Prefectural Committee, and participated in the "three antis" movement. From January 1952 to 1954, he was the head of the secretary of the Industry Department of the Zibo Prefectural Committee. In 1955, he went to the Fourth Intermediate Party School of the Central Committee to study. In May 1956, Li Jiansheng was transferred to the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and served as the secretary of the office of the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee. In May 1957, he was transferred to the Party Committee of Weifang Diesel Engine Factory of the Communist Party of China.
In 1953, Dahua Machinery Factory was renamed Weifang Diesel Engine Factory, and moved from Fangzi to Minzhu Street (now Minsheng Street) In 1953, Weifang Diesel Engine Factory was established
Since September 1959, he has successively served as the director of the office of the Shandong Provincial Production Commission, the director of the Office of the Shandong Provincial Planning Commission, the director of the Office of the Shandong Economic Commission, and the member of the Party Group of the Shandong Provincial Economic Commission. In 1964, he was transferred to Weifang again, and successively served as the secretary of the party committee of the Weifang Diesel Engine Factory of the CPC, the secretary of the party committee of the Changwei Steel Factory of the CPC, the deputy director of the Changwei Regional Transportation Bureau, and the deputy director of the Changwei Regional Economic Committee. During his tenure as deputy director of the Changwei Regional Economic Committee, he insisted on going deep into enterprises and grass-roots investigations and studies, and put forward many constructive ideas and measures from the aspects of deepening enterprise reform, strengthening enterprise management, and improving enterprise economic efficiency in view of the contradictions and problems existing in the process of economic transformation, and made positive contributions to the economic development of Changwei region.
In October 1983, Li Jiansheng left his post to recuperate and enjoyed departmental treatment. After his retirement, he still cared about major state affairs and the economic and social development of Weifang City, took the initiative to give suggestions and suggestions for economic development, and demonstrated the lofty spirit of an old Communist Party member who never stopped living and struggling endlessly. In February 2008, Li Jiansheng died of illness at the age of 88.