This morning, the Tsinghua University Alumni Association released the news that Chen Shunyao, the former deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Tsinghua University, died of illness on July 31 at the age of 102.
The governor of Chang'an Avenue noticed that Chen Shunyao was the wife of Song Ping, a former member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee and former director of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, who had harvested love in Tsinghua Garden and personally experienced the "12.9" movement to resist Japan and save the dead.
Chen Shunyao (data map)
Chen Shunyao, a native of Fuzhou, was born in Jinan in September 1917, was admitted to the Department of Civil Engineering of the School of Engineering of Tsinghua University in September 1936, returned to Tsinghua in 1953, worked for eight years, and successively served as vice provost, assistant to the president, and deputy secretary of the party committee.
Her husband is Song Ping, a former member of the Politburo Standing Committee, and the two have fallen in love at Tsinghua Garden and participated in the "12.9" movement led by the Communist Party of China. Song Ping was born in April 1917 and entered the Department of Chemistry of Tsinghua University in 1935, one term higher than Chen Shunyao.
The two later traveled to Yan'an, the holy land of revolution, where Chen Shunyao also served as a clerk for Zhou Enlai.
Song Ping and Chen Shunyao (data map)
In the summer of 1939, Zhou Enlai fell and injured his right arm because of a horse fright. The organization sent Chen Shunyao to serve as a clerk for him, and he dictated it, and Chen Shunyao recorded, copied, and sorted out relevant documents and documents on his behalf.
Chen Shunyao once recalled: "Just before graduating, the Central Organization Department wrote a note to the Marxist-Leninist Academy, asked me to talk, and said that Vice Chairman Zhou was injured and could not write normally with his hands, and that you should write down the words dictated by Vice Chairman Zhou, and that the materials should be kept secret -- female comrades do not have much contact with people, and the conditions for confidentiality are good." ”
After arriving at Yangjialing, Vice Chairman Zhou asked for my resume, gave me a notebook, and said to try it. The first thing to remember is the outline of the 'August 1' report. He was not used to saying a sentence waiting for someone else to remember it. He always replied to other people's letters in one breath, and I wrote them out. Sometimes he pointed out that the tone was wrong, just say a sentence, let me write a sentence. Chen Shunyao said.
Chen Shunyao is a deputy to the First National People's Congress. In 2014, on the 60th anniversary of the founding of the National People's Congress, she said in an interview with people's daily that she was 97 years old, and many things were slowly forgotten, but two things were unforgettable. One was the founding of New China, and the other was the convening of a session of the National People's Congress and the formulation of the 1954 Constitution.
The governor of Chang'an Avenue noted that Song Ping and Chen Shunyao were very concerned about education issues and helped out-of-school children and poor children many times. For example, as early as September 1994, they had sponsored three out-of-school children through the Hope Project, and in August 1995, they sent 1,600 yuan to the Hope Project Office in Shanyang County, Shaanxi Province, indicating that they would help four children return to school.
Song Ping, Chen Shunyao and their spouses taking a group photo with the youth of the volunteer education (data map)
Another example is that in June 2014, Song Ping took part in a "Dream Fulfillment" charity education assistance activity on crutches, which was his first public news report after the 18th Party Congress. In October of the following year, they met and talked with several "post-90s" volunteer teachers from Beautiful China at a courtyard in Beijing's Xicheng District.
The following is an obituary sent by the Tsinghua Alumni Association and a reminiscence written by Chen Shunyao——
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Chen Shunyao, a 1936 alumnus of Tsinghua University and former deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Tsinghua University, died in Beijing on July 31, 2019 at the age of 102 due to illness.
Chen Shunyao, female, from Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, was born in September 1917 in Jinan, Shandong Province. In September 1936, he was admitted to the Department of Civil Engineering of the School of Engineering of Tsinghua University, and joined the Communist Party of China in December 1937 at Changsha Provisional University. From 1938 to 1939, he studied at the Central Party School of Yan'an and the Marxist-Leninist College in Yan'an. From 1940 onwards, he worked in the Propaganda Department of the Southern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, the Cultural Group of the United Front Committee, and the CPC delegation in Nanjing. From 1947 to 1948, she served as the principal of Harbin Women's Middle School and the director of the Chinese Education Bureau, and later worked in the Propaganda Department of the Harbin Municipal Party Committee.
Since 1949, he has successively served as deputy director, minister and deputy secretary of the Propaganda Department of the Northeast Youth League Committee. Since 1953, he has served as vice provost, assistant to the president and deputy secretary of the party committee of Tsinghua University. Since 1961, he has been the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Northwest Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee. From 1981 to 1988, he served as a member of the editorial board and adviser of the Research Office of the Secretariat of the Central Committee. He is a deputy to the First and Third National People's Congress and a member of the Seventh National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Deeply mourn the memory of Elder Chen Shunyao!
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Chen Shunyao (Class of 1936, Civil Engineering)
I was admitted to the Department of Civil Engineering of Tsinghua University in 1936. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he studied at Changsha Temporary University, and at the end of the year, he left the school to go north and went to Yan'an to study. Subsequently, he was assigned to work in the Office of the Eighteenth Group Army in Chongqing under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and the Chinese Communist delegation in Nanjing. It was not until the liberation war broke out that he returned to the northeast liberated areas and engaged in youth movement and education. At the beginning of 1953, he returned to work at his alma mater for eight years. In 1961, he was transferred to the northwest, mainly engaged in propaganda, culture and education. After several twists and turns, he was transferred back to Beijing in 1981 to do policy research work, and soon retired from the front line with old age. This is a simple experience for more than half a century after I left Tsinghua.
In 1949, the old alumni of Tsinghua University took a group photo in Shenyang. From right: Chen Shunyao, Song Ping, He Li and his wife, Xue Gongqiu and his wife and their children
I was only at Tsinghua for three semesters, but it affected my whole life. Looking back at my first enrollment, I also dreamed that the motherland, which was deeply affected by disasters, would one day be able to stand up, and I was willing to work hard for the founding of the country. For this reason, I am eager to learn some real skills for nation-building. However, as Japanese imperialism was pressing forward step by step, and the Chinese nation had reached the most dangerous time, I felt that salvation was the most urgent task, so I threw myself into the fiery rescue activities in Tsinghua Garden together with many of my classmates. With deep affection for the country and the people, we have participated in various report meetings and current affairs seminars to heat up discussions on current trends and the future of the country. We used to sew cotton vests for Suiyuan anti-Japanese soldiers in brightly lit classrooms. We organized the Haiyan Song Group to learn from the Haiyan before the storm and call for resistance against Japan, and the songs of "Songhua On the River" and "Flowers in May" often came out of the great hall. In order to exercise ourselves, we once gathered in the West Mountain Wuliang Hall, climbed up in the middle of the night, sat on the top of the peak and waited for dawn. I also rode my bike along country lanes to teach women's literacy classes, giving my first exposure to the countryside as a student growing up in the city. This period of life inspired me to choose my own path in life.
In 1990, Chen Shunyao participated in the grade celebration photo. From left in the front row: Xu Yuandong, Chen Shunyao, Xie Wen (Mrs. Xu); from left in the back row: Li Shunying, Ding Yongling, Zhou
At the beginning of the first five-year plan after the founding of New China, I returned to my alma mater and worked with the teachers, alumni, teachers, staff, and classmates to realize my dream of that year and learn the knowledge of building the motherland with patriotic enthusiasm. The reconstructed hydraulic laboratory echoed with the heroic song of the new generation of students composing their own construction of the motherland, and the teachers and students of the Water Conservancy Department did the graduation design with real knives and guns, and personally participated in the construction of the Miyun Reservoir, which was unimaginable in the past. Many students were arranged to intern in key factories and had the opportunity to contact the latest domestic technology. Whenever I accompanied the internal and foreign guests to visit the program-controlled machine tool performance (which was still new in 1958), I couldn't help but think of the belt lathes and electric drills in the factory when we were practicing at the metalworking industry.
New China has shaped the new Tsinghua, the new Tsinghua contains the patriotic tradition and excellent study style of the old Tsinghua, although since 1961 I left Tsinghua for almost thirty years, and now Tsinghua has a new look, it is almost difficult to find the old traces, but in my heart, the memory of Tsinghua is like the school flower Bauhinia bauhinia, red and purple Fangfei, never fade.
I love Tsinghua, I love Tsinghua people.
(Originally published in tsinghua 12th grade commemorative journal (1990), published in The 75th series of Tsinghua Alumni Newsletter on January 26, 2017 with the review and approval of Chen Shunyao.) ）
Source: Tsinghua Alumni Association WeChat public account, People's Daily, Jinghua Weekly, People's Daily, Party Style and Integrity Magazine, etc