Zhou Enlai's last signature and his last words before his death

People's Daily - Chinese Communist Party News Network

Editor's Note: Published article ". The article records that Zhou Enlai signed for the last time before undergoing the fourth major surgery after his hospitalization, he signed the transcript of the report "On the Issue of the So-Called "Wuhao Incident" Reported by the Kuomintang in Slanderous Publication." On January 7, 1976, Zhou Enlai said his last words to the doctor during his death, excerpted below.

On September 20, 1975, Zhou Enlai, who was critically ill, had to undergo his fourth major surgery after being hospitalized again.

Zhou Enlai knew that the outcome of the operation was difficult to predict.

Before entering the operating room, he asked the staff to find the transcript of the report "On the Kuomintang Rumor-Mongering and Slandering the So-Called "Wuhao Incident"" that he had made at the Central Committee's Report on Lin Rectification in June 1972, carefully read it for a long time, and then signed his name with a trembling hand, and indicated the environment and time of signing: "Entering the operating room (front), September 20, 1975." This was the last signature zhou Enlai made before his death.

When entering the operating room, Zhou Enlai tried his best to say a long-buried sentence: "I am loyal to the party and the people!" I'm not a capitulator!" Deng Yingchao, who was present, asked Wang Dongxing to report the situation to Mao Zedong.

In the early morning of January 5, 1976, medical staff performed the last operation on Zhou Enlai, who was dying. Subsequently, members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Cpc Central Committee and responsible persons of the State Council who received a notice of Zhou Enlai's critical illness came to the hospital one after another.

On January 7, Zhou Enlai's condition continued to deteriorate, his breath had become very weak, and he had been in a coma for a long time. Medical team members, nursing staff, etc. are guarding the ward day and night, ready for rescue at any time.

At 11 o'clock in the night, the dying Zhou Enlai woke up from his coma. He narrowed his eyes slightly, recognized Dr. Wu Jieping who was standing by his side, and said in a weak voice, "I have nothing to do here." You still have to take care of other sick comrades, where you are needed even more..." These are the last words left by Zhou Enlai.

The prime minister, who has dedicated his life to the country and the people, still thinks only of others when he is dying!

At 9:57 a.m. on January 8, Zhou Enlai, a great man of the century and a good prime minister who Chinese the people, who was well-known at home and abroad, passed away.