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Yang Xiufeng
"Red Professor" Yang Xiufeng is no stranger to the people of Hebei. When the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in 1937, he threw his pen from Rong to western Hebei to form an anti-Japanese armed force, and successively served as the director of the Office of the Administrative Director of Southern Hebei, the chairman of the Government of the Luyu Border Region of Jinji and Hebei, the vice chairman of the North China People's Government, and the chairman of the Hebei Provincial People's Government, and worked and lived in Hebei for 15 years. He was dedicated to the people, honest and honest, outstanding in merit, and was known as a "servant of the people", but because he was always modest and low-key, some deeds were not well known to people.
Take off your robes to form an anti-Japanese guerrilla group in western Hebei
Yang Xiufeng is a native of Qian'an County, Hebei Province. Influenced by his family, he loved to read and devote himself to revolution as a teenager. In 1930, he joined the Communist Party of China while studying in France. Since then, safeguarding the interests of the country, the people and the party has become his lifelong goal.
In 1934, Yang Xiufeng returned to China after completing his studies and taught at several universities such as Beiping Normal University. With the help of his public status as a university professor, he actively disseminated revolutionary theories among young students and secretly engaged in anti-Japanese national united front work in the cultural circles of Pingjin. His revolutionary fearless spirit was deeply respected and loved by young students, and he was known as the "Red Professor".
In 1937, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in full swing, and Yang Xiufeng, who was already a confused year, resolutely threw himself into the pen. He entrusted his two-year-old only son to relatives and friends, and together with his wife led the progressive students of Pingjin to the front line of the anti-Japanese war. When the heavily armed Kuomintang troops retreated like a tide, a group of colorful troops wearing suits, cheongsams, and glasses drove to the front line to meet the collapsed troops.
In accordance with the secret instructions of the Northern Bureau of the CPC, Yang Xiufeng returned to Hebei to carry out united front work and organize guerrilla warfare. His public identity was that of a commissioner of the Baoding Xingying Camp Jixi Civil Training Office, chairman of the Military Commission of the National Government, and had the power to directly appoint county magistrates and develop anti-Japanese armed forces in the western Hebei region. Using this as a cover, he quickly set up the Jixi Folk Training Office, and before the Japanese army occupied, he sent a working group to Pingshan, Jingxing, Xingtang and other counties to carry out anti-Japanese mobilization, establish an anti-Japanese democratic regime, and develop anti-Japanese armed forces.
On October 12, 1937, the Japanese army advanced into Jingxing. Although Yang Xiufeng is a scholar, he is very calm and calm, and he is not afraid of danger. He personally mobilized the governor of Jingxing County and the director of public security to organize security armed cameras to fight the enemy, but the county chief and the director of public security found an opportunity to escape. The head of the security regiment obeyed the order to assemble the team on standby, but only more than 30 people were left. At this time, some staff of the Civil Training Office also panicked, packed up and prepared to retreat. Yang Xiufeng saw the situation and immediately held a small meeting to make severe criticism. He said: "Our task is to organize the masses to resist the enemy, and if we flee from the battlefield like them, we do not have to come to Jixi." Even if it is necessary to retreat, it is not right to panic without the decision of the organization! Later, the army had retreated from the front line, at which time Yang Xiufeng led more than 30 people from the Jixi Civil Training Office and the Jingxing Defense Regiment to retreat to Niangziguan along with the retreating troops.
During the transfer, Yang Xiufeng paid attention to mobilizing the masses and reorganizing the county security brigade, and on this basis formed the anti-Japanese guerrilla group in western Hebei. Since then, the arduous battle process of moving to western Hebei and southern Hebei has begun. Thanks to the correct policy of our Party in uniting the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the personal influence of Yang Xiufeng, in a very short period of time, the anti-Japanese guerrilla unit in western Hebei developed into an anti-Japanese guerrilla general brigade in western Hebei with several thousand people. Later, this team was officially incorporated into the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army and became one of the main forces in the Taihang Mountains.
Launched the first condolence activities in the old district
In the long-term practice of revolution, Yang Xiufeng and the people in the base areas have formed a deep friendship. In 1949, the People's Government of Hebei Province was established, he served as the chairman of the Provincial People's Government, and no matter how busy he was, he did not forget the masses in the old areas who lived and died together, and always wanted to return to the old areas to see the latest situation. In the winter of 1950, accompanied by several cadres of the Provincial Department of Agriculture and the Forestry Department, they quietly came to Fuping and Quyang by light car.
At that time, it was the middle of winter, and it was snowing heavily, and the car taken by Yang Xiufeng and his party could not go to Quyang County and then to the village. He was more than half a hundred years old and did not say a word, and led his entourage to walk to the research site. After looking at the situation in the surrounding villages separately, Yang Xiufeng convened a symposium. Attending the meeting were not only county chiefs and county party secretaries, but also people in the vicinity who had heard the news. At that time, as the focus of the party's work shifted from the countryside to the cities, the phenomenon of neglecting and relaxing the rural areas and peasants inevitably appeared, and the peasants' living standards declined and dissatisfaction arose. At the meeting, this resentment poured out from you and I said: "Now that you have entered the city, we have no one to take care of it." "Our previous major income is now gone, and our lives are getting harder and harder, what should we do?" Some people shed tears when they talked about the excitement.
Yang Xiufeng's mood became very heavy, and he also shed tears. After careful analysis, he felt that what the masses had said was reasonable and the truth. Especially when he saw that Fuping and Quyang were flooded at that time, and when it was cold in winter, many ordinary people did not have cotton clothes to wear, he was even more anxious. The most important thing now is to solve the problem of eating and dressing! He, who had never extended his hand to his superiors, made a report to the central authorities: "The whole county of Fuping and the Quyang Mountains are the old areas of the old districts, and the organs of North China were stationed here for a long time, and the masses are related to my flesh and blood." The proportion of the number of winter clothes allocated by the central government in our province is very small compared with the total number of funds raised, can we increase the number of quilts and winter clothes by hundreds of thousands each. At the same time, the report also requested the central government to lend 1.5 million kilograms of rice as a subsidy for mountain production loans in Hebei Province to cultivate its own production and self-help capabilities. Chairman Mao Zedong read it and gave instructions: "Zhou Enlai (i.e., Zhou Enlai): This request should be approved. Soon, the Ministry of Finance allocated a part of the clothing and food left by Fu Zuoyi's troops to the people, and at once solved the major problems in the lives of the people in the old areas.
Immediately afterward, Yang Xiufeng visited Xiangxian and Wu'an Counties, where the heads of the jin-Hebei Luyu Border Region were stationed, and moved west and Zunhua to the anti-Japanese base areas in eastern Hebei. Everywhere he went, he looked at it carefully, listened carefully, and then reported the comprehensive situation to the North China Bureau and the Party Central Committee. These materials, especially the words that "the Communist Party went down and forgot the mountains, which were widely reflected by the masses," aroused the great attention of the central leadership. They greatly appreciated Yang Xiufeng's return to the old areas and decided to organize a visiting delegation in the name of the Central People's Government to visit all the old revolutionary base areas.
In late August 1951, the North China Bureau dispatched a delegation of the Northern Revolutionary Base Areas with Liu Lantao as its leader and Yang Xiufeng as its deputy regiment, with nine sub-regiments under it, to visit the Jin-Ji Luyu, Jin-Cha-Ji, Jin-Sui, Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia and other anti-Japanese base areas. Yang Xiufeng carried the special mao zedong inscription "Carry forward the revolutionary tradition and strive for greater glory" written by Mao Zedong for the people of the old areas, and re-ascended the Taihang Mountain. In more than a month, he visited the heart of the former Jinji-Hebei Luyu Border Region, Xiangxian and Wuxiang. While visiting, he helped solve the problem, and when he encountered some very urgent problems, he immediately called the North China Bureau and the Government Council for help.
In late September 1951, most of the nationwide visit was completed. At the end of September, the invited people's representatives of the revolutionary base areas arrived in Beijing with various delegations to attend the National Day ceremony in the capital, and on October 9 they were received by Premier Zhou Enlai. Zhou Enlai said that the party will not go down the mountain and forget the mountains, go to the cities and forget the countryside, and at present the country still has many difficulties, and I hope that the comrades in the old base areas will understand and do their best to help the people in the old base areas solve their difficulties in the future. After this visit, the masses of the people in the old areas felt that the party had not forgotten them, and their enthusiasm was getting higher and higher.
Presided over the investigation and handling of the first major case of the founding of the People's Republic of China
After the founding of New China, the party's task of restoring the national economy was very arduous, and the phenomenon of corruption also rapidly grew and spread, and the degree of seriousness was shocking. In October 1951, the central government decided to carry out a nationwide campaign to streamline the administration of the army and increase production and economize, and with the help of this strong east wind, the earth-shattering cases of corruption and corruption of Liu Qingshan, secretary of the Tianjin Prefectural Party Committee, and Zhang Zishan, commissioner of the Tianjin Special District, surfaced.
At that time, because Lin Tie, secretary of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee, went to the Soviet Union for recuperation, Yang Xiufeng, chairman of the provincial government, was responsible for taking the lead in handling the case. Under his active leadership, the case was handled expeditiously. At the third meeting of the provincial party committee in late November, liu qingshan and Zhang Zishan's embezzlement was publicly exposed. On November 29 and December 2, Liu and Zhang were arrested. After that, the provincial party committee formed the "Liu Qingshan and Zhang ZishanDa Corruption Investigation and Handling Committee" with Yang Xiufeng as the director and Xue Xun, director of the Organization Department of the provincial party committee, as the deputy director to thoroughly investigate the case.
Yang Xiufeng has always been honest and honest, and has been vicious and hateful to acts that endanger the interests of the people. During his tenure as director of the Ji'nan Bureau, there was a food administrator who embezzled the living allowances of comrades, and a groom who stole horse materials and did not change his ways, and under the advice of Yang Xiufeng, the judicial organs strictly dealt with these two scum. After the establishment of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Border Region Government, he led the formulation of the "Interim Regulations on the Punishment of Corruption in the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Border Region", in which embezzlement of 500 yuan is punishable by death. Therefore, as soon as the Liu and Zhang embezzlement cases came out, Yang Xiufeng was extremely shocked and resentful, but at the same time, he deeply blamed himself for not discovering it in time.
On December 16, the provincial people's government submitted a report on the corruption case of Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan to the State Council of the Central People's Government. The report examined the bureaucracy of the provincial government leadership and requested sanctions. What was even more surprising was that Yang Xiufeng published a long article entitled "Heavy Responsibility and Painful Lessons" in the People's Daily on January 8, 1952. In the article, he pointedly pointed out that the reason why the Hebei Provincial People's Government had not discovered the corruption and corruption of Liu and Zhang for a long time and failed to deal with them as soon as possible was "mainly that the Hebei Provincial People's Government, especially my leadership, has serious bureaucracy." After carefully analyzing the problem of bureaucracy, he wrote earnestly: "The above is a very incomplete preliminary examination of Liu and Zhang's crimes from the perspective of leadership responsibility. I deeply feel the grave responsibility of my bureaucratic poisoning, which has caused great losses to the state assets and irreparably damaged the credibility of the people's government! It hurts to think of this! ”
Yang Xiufeng's courageous approach to taking responsibility has had a positive and positive impact. After his review was published in the People's Daily, the Hebei Daily successively published articles by the director of the Provincial Department of Finance, the secretary general of the Provincial Production and Disaster Relief Committee, the director of the Provincial Water Conservancy Department, the president of the Hebei Branch of the Chinese Min min bank, and the Provincial Labor and Personnel Department, inspecting the responsibilities of their own units and individuals on the Liu and Zhang issues. Targeted and sharp articles are reported day by day, and some units and some provincial-level and municipal party and government leaders are criticized and exposed by name, and the units and leaders who have been criticized and exposed have also been inspected and reviewed. On February 10, 1952, with the execution of Liu and Zhang Ergang according to law, the "three antis" and "five antis" movements in Hebei were rapidly launched, the party style was further corrected, and the social atmosphere was increasingly purified.
Source: Hebei Provincial Party Committee "Communist Party" magazine
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