Liu Geping
Liu Geping (1904-1992), formerly known as Liu Zimin and Liu Xiangnong, was a Hui nationality from Mengcun Hui Autonomous County, Hebei Province.
In September 1918, he joined the direct warlord unit as a soldier, and later studied at the military school of the battalion.
In September 1922, he joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League and returned to his hometown in the winter of the same year to carry out propaganda work on progressive revolutionary ideas.
In December 1925, together with Zhang Yintao, an early member of the Communist Party of China, he launched and led the Jinnan Peasant Self-Defense Army Uprising. The uprising was the first shot fired by the chinese people of northern China under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party against the Beiyang warlords.
In July 1926, he became a member of the Communist Party of China, and in March 1927, he became the secretary of the Jinnan Special Committee of the Communist Party of China.
He was arrested in 1928 and released from prison in 1931 to carry out military movement work in Shanxi and Shaanxi.
In the autumn of 1932, he returned to his hometown and served as a military commissar of the Cangzhou Special Administrative Region of the Communist Party of China.
In April 1934, he was arrested for the second time in a struggle to lead the strike of river workers in Qingyun County.
After being released from prison in April 1944, he successively served as the secretary of the Tianjin Provisional Working Committee of the CPC, a student of the Party School of the Shandong Branch of the CPC Central Committee, the director of the Shandong Huimin Association, the deputy director of the Democratic Movement Department of the East China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (Minister Zhang Ye), the deputy secretary of the BOHAI District CPC Committee and the Director of the Organization Department and the City Work Department (Secretary Zhang Ye), the deputy political commissar of the Bohai Naval Region of the East China Field Army (commander Yuan Yelie, Qin Shimian, and the political commissar Zhang Ye), and the political commissar of the 3rd detachment of the Southbound Cadre Column of the East China Bureau (Commander Zhou Guanwu). Vice President of East China People's Revolutionary University (President Shu Tong).
In September 1949, as the chief representative of ethnic minorities, he attended the first plenary session of the Chinese Political Consultative Conference and was elected as a member of the Central People's Government.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as deputy director of the Ethnic Affairs Committee of the State Council (1949-1954), deputy secretary of the party leading group (1951-1954), deputy director of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee (1951-1958) and president of the Central University for Nationalities (1954-1957), secretary of the CPC Ningxia Working Committee and director of the Preparatory Committee of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, chairman of the People's Government of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (1958-1960), and secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region CPC Committee (1958-1964). Vice Governor of Shanxi Province (1965), Director of the Revolutionary Committee of Shanxi Province, Head of the Core Group of the Party (1967-1971), First Political Commissar of Shanxi Provincial Military Region (1967-1971), Political Commissar of Beijing Military Region (1967-1971), Director of the Chinese Muslim Cultural Association, President of the China-Pakistan (Pakistan) Friendship Association.
Liu Geping and Ding Lei are in Ningxia
He is a member of the Eighth and Ninth Central Committees of the Communist Party of China and a member of the Eighth Central Supervision Commission.
He was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the First and Second National People's Congresses and a member of the Sixth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Liu Geping Memorial Series