In 1927, after the Kuomintang reactionaries rebelled against the revolution, new changes took place in the revolutionary situation. A large number of Communists and revolutionary cadres were brutally slaughtered by the Kuomintang reactionaries, and the Party was forced to go underground to struggle; after the "Sixth Congress" of the Party, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army continued to expand and establish a number of revolutionary base areas; and the Party organizations in the White Areas (areas ruled by the Kuomintang) were gradually restored and developed. But we are still in a state of being blocked and divided by the enemy.
As early as the end of the "Sixth National Congress," Comrade Zhou Enlai began to grasp this work, and he immediately interviewed Comrades Li Qiang and Zhang Shenchuan separately to talk to them, asking them to overcome all difficulties and learn radio communication technology to meet the needs of the development of the revolutionary situation.
Li Qiang
Shen Yinchuan
Li Qiangyuan studied civil engineering and did not study radio. Everything needs to start from scratch, and the difficulties are many. After Li Qiang accepted the task, as a radio amateur, he hid in a house on Hurd Road, and according to the route diagram introduced in the publication, he drilled, sawed, and welded with Zhang Shenchuan, first learning to assemble the receiver and then install the transmitter.
Zhang Shenchuan was originally a student at the Faculty of Letters of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. Once he saw the "Shanghai Radio School" enrollment advertisement in the newspaper, he changed his name to Zhang Yanming and ran to register, and was admitted after passing the examination. After enrolling in the school, he learned that this was a school run by the director of the Sixth Military Radio Station of the General Headquarters of the National Revolutionary Army and several radio operators to use the houses of the organs to get "extra money." Zhang Shenchuan studied here for six or seven months, during which he was very diligent and diligent. In May 1929, Zhang Shenchuan took advantage of several late-night shifts to copy the secret codes of two military radio stations and handed them over to the party organization.
In 1929, they finally built the first radio station designed and built by themselves. Using this radio station, we first started by copying the international news and weather forecasts of the Kuomintang radio station, and then contacted the amateur radio stations in various countries in the world to report, and the results proved that this self-made radio station was fully qualified and could be used. The successful construction of the party's first secret radio station and its communication work represents the pioneering significance of our party and our army in the telecommunications industry from scratch, from small to large, and in the history of the development of radio in the CPC.
Fukangli (site of the first radio station of the CPC Central Committee): In 1929, the first radio station of the CPC Central Committee was born in Fukangli, Daxi Road (now No. 9, Lane 420, Yan'an West Road), and the party's radio communication business began.