For a province, as long as the provincial party secretary has strong ability and quality, then the construction of all aspects of the province will have the backbone, and the people's living standards will also flourish, and vice versa. Today's introduction is Ren Zhongyi, who was the secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee. He became the secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee in 1980, and in five years he took Guangdong Province's GDP to the top spot in the country, and built Shenzhen from an ordinary small fishing village into a bustling metropolis.
In September 1914, Ren Zhongyi was born in Xixiaozhuang Village, Liyuantun Township, Wei County, Hebei Province. In that era of old China, the Qing Dynasty collapsed in 1911, the Republic of China had just been established, the warlords were busy dividing the territory, the Western powers were participating in the First World War, and the land of Hebei was also poor. Ren Zhongyi's parents have a long-term vision, no matter how difficult the family is, they provide Ren Zhongyi with school.
Ren Zhongyi also lived up to his parents' expectations, and he studied very well from an early age and was admitted to Hebei Provincial First Middle School. The principal of the middle school is the famous educator Ma Qianli, who was a teacher for Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao. Ma Qianli not only taught the students scientific and cultural knowledge, but also taught them progressive ideas. Since then, Ren Zhongyi has understood the need to study for the rise of China.
In the autumn of 1934, at the age of 20, Ren Zhongyi was admitted to the Department of Political Economy at the Chinese University in Beiping. At that time, the revolutionary atmosphere within the university was very strong, and the students studied while carrying out the anti-Japanese salvation movement. Ren Zhongyi actively participated in the student movement under the leadership of Dong Yuhua, a famous student leader at that time, chairman of the Peking Students' Federation and a member of the Communist Party.
In December 1935, Ren Zhongyi participated in the "12.9" student movement that shocked China and foreign countries. During the movement, like the broad masses of students, he shouted slogans such as "Aid Suiyuan in the War of Resistance," "Unite all parties," and "Down with Japanese imperialism." This student movement was a large-scale student patriotic movement led by the Communist Party, which exposed the Japanese imperialists' vain attempt to annex North China and invade all of China, and favorably dealt a blow to the capitulation policy of Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang government.
In June 1936, Ren Zhongyi joined the Communist Party and successively served as the secretary of the party branch of The Chinese University in Beiping and the secretary of the Northwest District Committee of Beiping. During his time in Beiping, he met Wang Xuan, a like-minded schoolgirl. Under the guidance of the common goal, Ren Zhongyi and Wang Xuan met, knew each other, and fell in love. In November 1936, Wang Xuan joined the Communist Party.
Subsequently, due to the betrayal of traitors, Wang De, director of the organization department of the Beiping Municipal Cpc Committee, was arrested and imprisoned, and his superiors assigned Ren Zhongyi and Wang Xuan to pretend to be husband and wife to rescue them. The two repeatedly sent messages to him in the name of visiting relatives Wang De, and eventually Wang De survived, and the feelings of Ren Zhongyi and Wang Xuan grew day by day. In November 1937, after the two took a group photo, there was no sugar, no flowers, no rings, and with the approval of the organization, the two were married and together for life.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Ren Zhongyi mainly carried out guerrilla activities behind enemy lines in the southern Hebei region, successively serving as the director of the Education Department of the Ji'nan Bureau, the president of the Party School of the Southern Hebei District, the standing committee member and commissioner of the Five Prefectural Committees and the Second Prefectural Committee of the Southern Hebei Region, and the secretary and mayor of the Xingtai Municipal Party Committee. On several occasions, he took his wife Wang Xuan and almost died in the process of turning behind enemy lines and falling into the enemy's encirclement. However, in order to fight for national independence and liberation, the two men had no hesitation and were caught under the enemy's artillery fire.
During the Liberation War, Ren Zhongyi did not take part in the war, but always grasped the urban construction of the liberated areas of our army in the rear, successively serving as mayor of Dalian City, secretary general of the Brigade University Bureau and deputy secretary of the party leading group, and member of the Standing Committee and secretary general of the Brigade University Municipal Party Committee. It was also during this period that he accumulated a large amount of valuable practical experience in economy, culture, and urban management, laying a good foundation for his future term as secretary of the provincial party committee.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Ren Zhongyi successively served as the secretary of the Harbin Municipal Party Committee and the secretary of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee. In that special era, he was also overthrown and left his post, but his faith in the party was always firm, believing that difficulties would surely pass, and that the dark clouds would disperse sooner or later, always waiting for the opportunity to return to work. In March 1977, Ren Zhongyi was appointed secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee.
In just three years, Ren Zhongyi led a group of people from the provincial party committee to emancipate their minds and seek truth from facts, and a good situation quickly appeared on the land of Liaoning, and people have a good reputation for him. When he proposed to the central authorities to build a special economic zone in dalian, Deng Xiaoping appointed him as the secretary of the Guangdong Provincial CPC Committee, which became a regret for many Liaoning people later.
During his five years as secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, the 66-year-old Ren Zhongyi showed outstanding and extraordinary talents in terms of construction ideas, boldness, methods and methods, and leadership art, and Guangdong became the brightest business card of China's reform and opening up. People today may be accustomed to some things, but at that time, women's hair dyeing, wearing high heels, touching perfume, men wearing sunglasses, wearing flared pants, and long hair, these phenomena will be criticized.
The first five-star hotel in Chinese mainland was the White Swan Hotel, invested by Hong Kong's Fok Ying Tung, which was criticized by many media at the time as deceitful. Huo Yingdong had no choice but to turn to Ren Zhongyi and invite him to eat at the White Swan. After receiving the invitation, many people advised Ren Zhongyi not to go because his identity was too special. But Ren Zhongyi not only went, but also wrote an inscription for the hotel: The apes on both sides of the strait could not stop crying, and the light boat had passed through the Ten Thousand Heavy Mountains. Many people feel that it is meaningful after watching it. On the opening day of the White Swan Hotel, more than 10,000 people visited the hotel, and the White Swan hotel was also called "the milestone of reform and opening up".
In September 1985, Ren Zhongyi stepped down as the secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee. When the leading cadres at that time left office, they would keep their offices in the organs, which was conducive to the replacement of the old and the new, also known as "helping the horse and sending a ride." However, Ren Zhongyi took the lead in breaking this practice, and he believed that the new team should be fully trusted, let the new team work boldly, and the old comrades should no longer be uneasy about interfering. His move won unanimous praise from all levels of the provincial party committee.
Ren Zhongyi and his wife Wang Xuan'en loved all their lives and had 4 children successively. The eldest son, Ren Nianqi, was absent from his side for a long time and worked at the grassroots level in a northern city as an adult until he retired. The second son, Ren Kening, served as vice chairman of China Tairong Credit Industry Holdings Co., Ltd. and deputy secretary general of china aerospace foundation. The youngest son, Ren Cray, graduated from the Department of Economics of Peking University, and worked in the State Import and Export Commission, the Economic and Trade Commission and the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee, and later served as the chairman of the Shenzhen OCT Group Company. Daughter Ren Keying went to study in the United States, and after graduation, she worked in a Wall Street investment bank, where she served as senior managing director of Bear Stearns and ceo and chairman of Bank of America Merrill Lynch China.
When Ren Zhongyi retired, the central government had arranged for him to settle in Beijing, but he had deep feelings for Guangzhou and voluntarily gave up the opportunity to go to Beijing. In November 2005, Ren Zhongyi, a reform general of the first generation, died in Guangzhou at the age of 92. In the selection of the most influential representative figures in guangdong's reform and opening up in the past 30 years, Ren Zhongyi ranked first.