In New China, there was such a person, his father was the leader of the Kuomintang leftists, and vigorously promoted the three major policies of Dr. Sun Yat-sen; his mother was also the main figure of the Kuomintang leftists, who participated in the creation of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee in the late stage of the Liberation War, and served as a vice-state post after the founding of the People's Republic;
He himself first joined the Kuomintang, resolutely quit after Chiang Kai-shek launched a counter-revolutionary coup, then became a member of the Communist Party, participated in the Long March, and after the founding of New China, he also held a vice-state position. And because of the relationship between his fathers, he and Chiang Ching-kuo are close friends, and he has made great contributions to promoting cross-strait friendly cooperation!
His name was Liao Chengzhi.
Liao Chengzhi was born on September 25, 1908 in Tokyo, Japan, to the father of Liao Zhongkai and the mother of He Xiangning. How good are his parents? Let's look at the titles.
Liao Zhongkai was the pioneer of China's democratic revolution, the glorious banner of the Left wing of the Kuomintang, the Minister of Finance of the Government of the Republic of China, a close friend of the Communist Party of China, the loving mother of Huangpu, and so on.
The three major policies of "uniting with Russia, uniting with the Communist Party, and supporting peasants and workers" determined by Sun Yat-sen have the help of Liao Zhongkai. Liao Zhongkai, a member of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee and a standing committee member, also participated in the preparation of the Whampoa Military Academy, which after its establishment, he served as a party representative, and his status and prestige were comparable to those of Chiang Kai-shek.
He also worked to establish close cooperation with the Communist Party and to support the revolutionary movement of workers and peasants. Unfortunately, he was assassinated by the Kuomintang right wing in 1925.
If Liao Zhongkai had not died, the Left Wing of the Kuomintang would not have been suppressed so badly, and Chiang Kai-shek would have dared not have launched the April 12 counter-revolutionary coup, and there was still hope for the Great Revolution. So it's a pity.
He Xiangning was an outstanding representative of the left wing of the Kuomintang, a famous painter, a pioneer of the feminist movement, the main founder of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee, and so on.
In her early years, she also followed Dr. Sun Yat-sen to make revolutions around, and after the death of her husband, she still supported the Communist Party many times, and dared to make public speeches calling on the vast number of revolutionary party members to overthrow the counter-revolutionaries such as Chiang Kai-shek and Wang.
After the Japanese Kou launched the September 18 Incident, He Xiangning repeatedly denounced Chiang Kai-shek, hoping that the latter would inherit Sun Yat-sen's legacy and unite with the Communists to resist Japan. Later, she also always opposed Chiang Kai-shek's traitorous, dictatorial, and civil war policies, and in 1948, she co-founded the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee with Li Jishen, Soong Ching Ling, and others, and actively engaged in anti-Chiang Kai-shek activities.
After the founding of New China, He Xiangning served as vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Second and Third National People's Congresses, vice chairman of the Second and Third National Committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and a cadre at the vice-state level.
Parents are so outstanding, of course, they also have high hopes for their children, the reason why they are named "Chengzhi" is to let their sons inherit the aspirations of their revolutionary ancestors and fight for the independence and freedom of the country.
In this context, Liao Chengzhi has been running around with his parents since he was a child, and his vision is very broad. In August 1924, Liao Chengzhi joined the Chinese Nationalist Party, and after Chiang Kai-shek launched the April 12 counter-revolutionary coup in 1927, he resolutely resigned from the party. Not long after, he went to waseda University Daiichi College of Higher Learning in Japan.
Throughout his life, Liao Chengzhi was determined to follow the right path, and for this reason he was imprisoned many times: in 1928, japan created the Jinan Massacre in China, and Liao Chengzhi, who was still studying at Waseda University, publicly denounced it, was arrested by the Japanese authorities, and soon after deported.
After returning to China, he joined the Communist Party of China, and in the following years he was sent by the CCP to Germany, Moscow, and the Netherlands to actively develop Chinese seafarers abroad to participate in the revolution.
After returning to China in 1932, Liao Chengzhi served as secretary of the Communist Party of China of the All-China Seamen's Federation of Trade Unions, and was arrested by the Kuomintang reactionaries in March of the following year while carrying out his work.
Fortunately, Liao Chengzhi's family was superior, and the reactionaries released him not long after, because he had been targeted by Kuomintang agents, so he was no longer suitable for underground work, and joined the Red Army in September 1933 as a member of the Standing Committee of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet District Party Committee.
In 1933, Liao Chengzhi served as the secretary general of the General Political Department of the Red Fourth Front, and he resolutely opposed Zhang Guotao's wrong line, and as a result, he was arrested by Zhang Guotao forcing him as a "secret agent", originally intending to kill him.
However, due to the fact that the influence was too great after the start, and Liao Chengzhi was very good at painting propaganda posters, Zhang Guotao did not start for the time being and escorted him to the Long March. The Long March was already hard, Liao Chengzhi was still handcuffed throughout the whole process, and it was not easy to complete it smoothly.
It was not until after the three main forces met that Liao Chengzhi restored his party membership and reputation through the efforts of Zhou Enlai and others. In the years since, Liao Chengzhi has always been an important figure in the propaganda of our party, and he has made contributions in party newspapers, party periodicals and news agencies.
In 1942, when the Japanese invaded Hong Kong, Liao Chengzhi participated in the leadership and specifically organized the famous "secret rescue" on the orders of the organization, which safely transferred the cultural circles and democrats trapped in Hong Kong to the rear area of the East River.
However, due to the traitor's whistle-blowing, Liao Chengzhi was again arrested and imprisoned by the Kuomintang reactionaries in May of that year, and in 1945 he was transferred to Chongqing Zha di Dong.
Very few people survived the cave, but fortunately Liao Chengzhi escaped from prison in 1946 after being rescued by an organization.
Not long after his release from prison, Liao Chengzhi served as the president of the Xinhua News Agency, and in the subsequent war years, he successively served as the spokesman of the Office of the Eighteenth Group Army, the director of the Propaganda Department of the Central Bureau of the CPC Jinji-Hebei Luyu, and the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liao Chengzhi still held important posts on the propaganda front, successively serving as deputy director of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, deputy director of the Central External Relations Department, and deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the State Council.
In addition, he was also a vice-member of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress and a member of the 12th Politburo of the Central Committee, and became a vice-state cadre like his mother.
Another thing that has to be mentioned is that because of the relationship between his father, Liao Chengzhi and Chiang Ching-kuo were friends when they were children, and later lived together in Moscow for a while, and the friendship between the two was good.
Therefore, in July 1982, Liao Chengzhi published an open letter to Chiang Ching-kuo, in which he began with brotherly feelings, recounted the voice of the people on both sides of the strait who longed for reunification, and then bluntly stated the blood paid by the Chinese people since the revolution, and finally talked about reunification as a historical trend, hoping that "my brothers in the country" would be able to donate their previous grievances and jointly realize the great cause of the reunification of the motherland.
The remarkable literary style and sincere emotion caused a sensation on both sides of the Taiwan Strait at that time.
"What is the point of not returning?" " , "After all the robbery of the brothers, meet a smile and a vengeance", "My brother's life is bumpy, it is by no means a fate arrangement, everything is up to himself." The sin of a thousand autumn deeds is tied to a single thought."
These words have broken the ice in Chiang Ching-kuo's heart, and although he still has a confrontational attitude on the surface, he has actually begun to think about cooperation with the mainland. In October of the same year, he sent his secret envoy Shen Cheng to Beijing, and for several years the two sides had secret contacts.
In March 1986, at the Third Plenary Session of the Twelfth Central Committee of the Kuomintang, Chiang Ching-kuo first put forward the principle that "there is only one China, and China must be reunified", and thus began to gradually improve relations with the mainland.
Of course, this is the general trend of history, but the role of Liao Chengzhi's letter is also irreplaceable!
Unfortunately, Liao Chengzhi died of illness on June 10, 1983, otherwise he would have been able to make more contributions to the country. Here, we also look forward to the early reunification of the motherland.