Written by 丨 Gao Yuyang Editor 丨 Xing Ying
Yesterday (March 31), a symposium to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Liu Fuzhi was held in Beijing. Political knowledge circles (WeChat id: wepolitics) noted that Liu Yunshan, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, and Meng Jianzhu, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, attended the forum, and Meng Jianzhu also delivered a speech at the forum.
Regarding Liu Fuzhi, younger people may not know much about it. However, it is not difficult to see from the leaders present at the symposium on the 100th anniversary of his birth that he is an "old senior" on the front line of political and legal work.
Generally speaking, he is China's third minister of justice, the first president of China University of Political Science and Law, the fifth minister of public security, and the fifth chief procurator of the Supreme People's Procuratorate. In addition, in his youth, he successively served as secretaries for Zhu De, Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping, and he can be called an "old revolutionary".
He successively served as the secretary of Zhu De, Liu Bocheng, and Deng Xiaoping
Born in 1917 to an overseas Chinese family in Meizhou, Guangdong Province, Liu Fuzhi died on August 25, 2013, at the age of 96.
After graduating from secondary school, the son of 17-year-old Liu Fu inherited his father's business and went to Hong Kong to learn to do business. He learned from the newspapers that there was a Red Army in northern Shaanxi, and he also vaguely heard the news of the mainland's resistance to Japan. In 1937, he gave up the comfortable life in Hong Kong, took off his suit, straightened his head, carried a letter of introduction from the underground party, and set off from Hong Kong, passing through Guangzhou, Zhengzhou, Xi'an and other cities, which lasted more than two months and arrived in Yan'an.
In Yan'an, he studied at the "Northern Shaanxi Public School" and the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. One day in October 1938, a minister at the Central Party School talked to Liu Fuzhi and said that he would transfer his work. At that time, the minister said: "Find a secretary for Commander-in-Chief Zhu, make sure that you will take up the post, and follow Commander-in-Chief Zhu to the front." This was completely unexpected by Liu Fuzhi, who recalled that he was very excited because he was about to work next to Commander-in-Chief Zhu De, and he did not think that he could do it.
At that time, the Eighth Route Army and Yan Xishan were talking, and before leaving, Zhu De deliberately found Liu Fuzhi and said: "Pick you to be a secretary, work with me, and go to the south." He also smiled and said, "You've drunk seawater." ”
In December of that year, Zhu De found Liu Fuzhi again and said, "Commander Liu Bocheng of the 129th Division wants a secretary and decides that you will go." Later, Liu Bocheng announced the secretary and asked him to immediately set off with his troops to the east and into southern Hebei. In 1940, Liu Fuzhi was again appointed secretary of Deng Xiaoping, and his colleagues included Zhuo Lin and Chen Shulian.
The year 1941 should be counted as the starting point for his political and legal career. In this year, he began a political and legal career of more than 70 years. At that time, the 24-year-old Liu Fuzhi was transferred to the Political Department of the 129th Division, whose main duty was to investigate and deal with traitors and Japanese puppet traitors.
Preparations for the Ministry of Public Security Find a small building in the alley
In 1949, Peiping was peacefully liberated. In July, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China established the Ministry of Public Security of the Central Military Commission (later renamed the Ministry of Public Security of the Central People's Government), with Luo Ruiqing as minister and Liu Fuzhi as deputy director of the General Office. He participated in the preparation and creation of the Ministry of Public Security.
Wang Zhongfang, former president of the China Law Society and former assistant to Liu Fuzhi, recalled: "Liu Fuzhi was actually responsible for the preparatory work of the Ministry of Public Security, and at that time there were fewer personnel in the Ministry of Public Security in North China, and he dragged me to run east and west, and it took a lot of effort to find a small building near Dongtangzi Hutong, which was the office building of Minister Luo, and now no one knows the historical value of this small building except Fuzhi and me." ”
Later, when the Cultural Revolution began, Liu Fuzhi was shocked and did not return to the Ministry of Public Security from Heilongjiang until 1971. Then, on October 21, 1973, Li Zhen, then executive vice minister of public security, committed suicide and was hanged in the underground heat pipe ditch of the compound of the Ministry of Public Security. Under the conditions at that time, the cause of Li Zhen's death was difficult to find out for a while, and in the process of cracking the case, some people in the Ministry of Public Security believed that the people headed by Yu Sang (deputy head of the core group of the Ministry of Public Security and deputy director of the Revolutionary Committee) and Liu Fuzhi wanted to carry out restoration and kill Li Zhen to seize power.
On the afternoon of October 26, the central government notified a meeting of all the members of the core group of the Ministry of Public Security in the Great Hall of the People, and when it was almost 12 o'clock in the evening, everyone was notified to go to the meeting, Liu Fuzhi and others entered from the north gate of the great hall, and in the past they all turned east to meet in the Fujian Hall, but after entering that day, they were guided to the west. "I felt strange in my heart."
"Not far away, behind the curtain came two tall soldiers of the Eight-Three-Four-One Unit, one left and one right, yu Sang put on a military coat, looked back at me, and even the military coat fell off, because it was very close, I had not eased up, and I was also taken away." At that time, Liu Fuzhi said, announced to him that "the central government has decided to review your protection." He replied, "Good. Then two tall soldiers took him down the stairs in a small elevator, walked through the northwest gate, and arrived at the traffic school.
In 1974, the case-solving team determined that Li Zhen had committed suicide, and arranged for Sang and Liu Fuzhi to return home. Political knowledge circle (WeChat id: wepolitics) calculated that he was locked up for about 16 months.
The big brother who handed it in piled up a few baskets
Liu Fuzhi soon resumed his work, subsequently serving as executive vice minister of the Ministry of Culture, and later appointed first deputy secretary-general of the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and director of the Policy Research Office. In January 1980, the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission was established, with Peng Zhen as secretary general, Liu Fuzhi as secretary general, and later promoted to deputy secretary and executive deputy secretary, etc. In April 1980, he concurrently served as deputy director of the Legislative Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress. In April 1982, Liu Fuzhi became Minister of Justice.
One of the things that Liu Fu is proud of in his life is that while he was in charge of the Ministry of Justice, he founded the China University of Political Science and Law on the basis of the Beijing University of Political Science and Law, and served as its first president. In 1983, Liu Fuzhi returned to the Ministry of Public Security and became the Minister of Public Security.
One day in the summer of 1985, Liu Fuzhi was in Beidaihe, and Xi Zhongxun, then secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, called him and said: "The Central Committee has decided that you will no longer serve as the minister of public security, but you will work for a while, and you will work for two more years." So, in October of that year, he stepped down as minister of public security and became executive deputy secretary of the Central Political and Legal Commission. In 1988, at the age of 71, he accepted a new appointment and became the fifth procurator general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate after Luo Rongheng, Zhang Dingcheng, Huang Huoqing and Yang Yichen.
Political knowledge circle (WeChat id: wepolitics) noted that Liu Fuzhi attaches great importance to anti-corruption work, and on the third day after becoming procurator general, he said in an interview that for economic crime cases, especially corruption and bribery cases, the procuratorial organs should make great efforts to grasp them. At the end of that year, the Supreme People's Procuratorate prominently made anti-corruption and bribery the focus of the procuratorate's work.
Chen Zhendong, former director of the Procuratorate of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, recalled that in mid-July 1989, the Supreme People's Procuratorate held a forum of procurators of various provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions, and a deputy procurator general in Inner Mongolia made a statement saying: "Put anti-separatism first." Liu Fuzhi corrected on the spot: "It is to take anti-corruption and bribery as the focus of work." Liu Fuzhi also criticized everyone, saying, "We must not just catch small rats, we must catch small tigers."
In August, the Supreme People's Procuratorate decided to rename the Economic Procuratorate to the Corruption and Bribery Procuratorate, and the names of the economic procuratorates of procuratorial organs at all levels across the country were changed accordingly. Later, he promoted the establishment of a special anti-corruption and bribery agency in Guangdong, which was later established by the Guangdong Provincial Procuratorate as the country's first anti-corruption bureau.
In April 1993, Liu Fuzhi, then chief procurator of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, inspected the construction site of the Supreme People's Procuratorate
On August 15, 1989, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, in accordance with the relevant instructions of the Central Committee, together with the Supreme People's Court, issued the Circular on Corruption, Bribery, Speculation and Other Criminals Must Turn Themselves In within the Time Limit and Confess Themselves. At that time, a provincial chief procurator said that some people who confessed and surrendered themselves could not be ranked in the procuratorate, and came to the procuratorate to register them and let them go back to "wear the crime and make meritorious contributions." At that time, the BP machine and "big brother" handed over to the procuratorate were piled up with several baskets.
Information 丨"Centennial Tide", "Procuratorial Daily", "Integrity Outlook", "Legal Daily", "People's Daily"
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