Outstanding political leader Wang Ping

Born in 1907, a native of Yangxin County, Hubei Province, Wang Ping has been engaged in military political work for a long time since joining the Red Army in 1930, and has successively served as the political commissar of the regiment, the political commissar of the division, the political commissar of the column, the political commissar of the corps, the political commissar of the volunteer army, the political commissar of the Grand Military Region, and the Chinese political commissar of the General Logistics Department of the People's Liberation Army. In 1955, Wang Ping was awarded the rank of general.

"Fight to Guiyang and capture Chiang Kai-shek alive"

Wang Ping was born into a poor peasant family and was the youngest "old man" in the family. Although the family was poor, Wang Ping's parents still saved money and raised money from many sources, and tried every means to let the youngest child in the family go to school and could no longer eat the "loss of no culture". Wang Ping cherished the hard-won opportunity to read, was extremely energetic, studied hard, learned well, and read a wide range of books, although the reading time was not long, but laid a relatively solid cultural foundation. Therefore, when Wang Ping joined the Red Army, he became a "master" in the eyes of ordinary soldiers, an "intellectual" in the revolutionary ranks, and was regarded as a "treasure" in carrying out propaganda work. Because of his active thinking, fluent writing, and powerful agitation, Wang Ping did his clerical and propaganda work in a sound and vivid manner, and everywhere the Red Army contingent passed, on the mud walls, rock walls, and beside the roads, red slogans for propagating the revolution, the Red Army, and the struggle had been left everywhere, which had become a powerful weapon for educating, organizing, and mobilizing the masses.

In March 1935, the Red Army crossed the Chishui River in four directions, crossed the Wujiang River in the south, and directly approached Guiyang, smashing the "encirclement and suppression" plan of the Kuomintang army and winning the initiative in strategic transfer. In order to confuse the enemy and cover the transfer of the main force of the Red Army, the Party Central Committee dispatched the Red Army all the way to the night and the stars, rushing to advance, pretending to capture Guiyang, and shocking Chiang Kai-shek, who was supervising the battle in Guiyang. Wang Ping led the Red Army propaganda team to write a battle propaganda slogan along the road around Guiyang: "Fight to Guiyang and capture Chiang Kai-shek alive," which effectively boosted the morale of the troops, skillfully cooperated with the Actions of the Red Army, and frightened Chiang Kai-shek into hurriedly mobilizing troops from other directions to rush to Guiyang to "protect the Lord and save the car." For a time he became a joke among the soldiers of the Red Army.

Model District Experience "Became the Most Valuable Guide for the Whole Party and the Whole Nation in the War of Resistance"

In September 1937, in accordance with the arrangements of the Party Central Committee, Wang Ping went deep into the central and western Hebei regions to carry out the construction of anti-Japanese base areas. During his tenure as director of the "Chinese National Revolutionary War Field Mobilization Committee" and county magistrate in Fuping, Wang Ping vigorously publicized the Ten Programs of the Communist Party of China for Resisting Japan and Saving the Country, and extensively called on the local masses and people from all walks of life to actively participate in the cause of the anti-Japanese nationalities and jointly establish an anti-Japanese national united front. Under the inspiration of his propaganda of earnest words, sincerity, and reasoning, the peasant masses were enthusiastic about resisting Japan, enthusiastically joined the army, and vigorously supported the building of the revolutionary contingent; intellectuals threw themselves into the torrent of the great cause of resisting Japan, offered suggestions and suggestions, and actively participated in the building of the anti-Japanese democratic regime; and enlightened landlords and gentry helped solve the practical difficulties in the anti-Japanese struggle, donated money and materials, and took the initiative to safeguard the anti-Japanese national united front. It can be said that "there are people who have money to pay, there are people who contribute, there are people who contribute forcefully, and they have wisdom to produce wisdom," and soon the situation of anti-Japanese struggle work in the local areas was opened up, laying an ideological foundation, an organizational foundation, and a mass foundation for building anti-Japanese base areas.

In view of the emerging tendencies and tendencies that have arisen after the continuous development and expansion of the anti-Japanese armed forces, such as ideological instability, imperfect organization, and imperfect system, Wang Ping gave full play to the fine traditions and political superiority of our party and our army, vigorously grasped the work of reorganizing and training the troops, carried out comprehensive rectification in terms of ideological consciousness, political principles, organizational establishment, organizational discipline, and combat style, and established from top to bottom an army political work system that meets the requirements of the development of the situation in the anti-Japanese struggle, thus effectively guaranteeing the building of the anti-Japanese base areas. In October 1938, the Presidium of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China praised the border area in the "Telegram to the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region" for "becoming a model anti-Japanese base area behind enemy lines and a model area for the united front" and "and your experience will become the most valuable guide for the whole party and the whole country in the War of Resistance."

"Defending peace, democracy and the fruits of victory"

During the Liberation War, Wang Ping successively served as political commissar of the Fourth Column of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, political commissar of the First Column of the Jin-Cha-Ji Field Army, second political commissar and commander of the Beiyue Military Region, and commander of the Chahar Military Region. In accordance with the unified arrangements of the Central Military Commission, Wang Ping led his troops to participate in the campaigns of Suiyuan, Jinbei, Qingfengdian, and Shijiazhuang, peacefully liberated Datong, further expanded the spatial scope and population scale of the liberated areas, and became an important rear base to support the front operations of the field army units. In order to consolidate and expand the revolutionary forces in the Liberated Areas, Wang Ping vigorously publicized the party's land policy, actively carried out the land reform movement, personally led the team to carry out land reform work, often went down to the grass-roots level, went deep into the townships, towns, and peasant households, conducted on-the-spot investigations on the progress of land reform, specifically understood the actual difficulties of poor peasant households, and earnestly protected the fundamental interests of the masses, thus greatly mobilizing the enthusiasm, initiative, and consciousness of the broad masses of peasants to enlist in the army to participate in the war, support the front, and defend peace, democracy, and the fruits of victory. Wang Ping also attached great importance to the selection and training of new cadres, combined Red Army cadres, former underground party cadres with urban intellectuals, effectively brought into play the characteristics and advantages of revolutionary cadres at different levels, at different ages, and at different stages, equipped and strengthened the leading backbone of the party, government, and mass organizations at the regional, county, and district levels, and specially established schools to carry out cadre training work, which not only provided a strong organizational guarantee for the construction of democratic political power in the existing liberated areas, but also sent a large number of urgently needed cadres and talents to the subsequent liberated areas. It actively supported the building of democratic revolutionary power in the Liberated Areas.

"The army must be stable"

In the period of peaceful construction, whether or not we can always maintain political sobriety, political firmness, and political consciousness profoundly tests the moral integrity, work style, character, and faith loyalty of a Communist Party member and a revolutionary. In April 1967, Wang Ping, who was the political commissar of the Nanjing Military Academy, was unreasonably criticized by the rebels. At that time, Wang Ping had just finished surgery for gastroduodenal ulcer, the surgical sutures had not yet been removed, and his physical condition was very weak, but he was ordered by the rebels to go to the scene to accept criticism. Lying on the camp bed, wearing an oxygen mask, he was not afraid of hardships and tests, did not change his political nature, looked coldly at the rebels, and was always fearless and awe-inspiring.

In 1975, Wang Ping returned to work and successively held major leadership positions in the Artillery of the Central Military Commission, the Wuhan Military Region, and the General Logistics Department. No matter what leading post he was in, Wang Ping, with the courage and maturity of a political worker in the armed forces, resolutely implemented the spirit of the enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission, firmly safeguarded the overall situation of "the army wants stability," sought truth from facts, implemented the policy of cadres, conscientiously straightened out the work style and discipline of the troops, vigorously rectified unjust, false, and wrongly decided cases, effectively safeguarded the stability of the army's overall situation, effectively ensured the army's combat readiness building, and concentrated on the lofty ethics, noble character, and far-sightedness of a communist party member and an outstanding leader in political work.