Zhu Guang, | of qiqihar history: erudite, scheming, upright, and diligent revolutionary fighter

Zhu Guang (1906-1969), a native of Bobai County, Guangxi, joined the Communist Party of China in 1930. He once served as secretary general of the Shanghai Songpu District Special Committee, secretary general of the Political Department of the Red Fourth Front, and secretary of commander-in-chief Zhu De. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he was sent by the Party to work in Qiqihar. He successively served as deputy secretary of the Working Committee of the Nenjiang Provincial CPC Committee, deputy political commissar of the Nenjiang Military Region of the Northeast Democratic United Army, and secretary of the Qiqihar Municipal CPC Committee, carried out military struggles and urban work, and did a lot of work to consolidate political power and support the front. In 1949, he became the mayor of Guangzhou after being transferred to Guangzhou, and in 1965 he was appointed vice governor of Anhui Province. He died in 1969.

In October 1945, in order to "establish a consolidated northeast base area", Zhu Guang and Liu Xiwu were ordered to come to Qiqihar, a major frontier area.

After the restoration of Qiqihar in the "August 15th Five-Year Plan," the situation was extremely complicated, the situation was extremely unstable, and it was in a state of chaos; the traitors headed by the puppet governor Shen Zhenxian formed the Nenjiang Provincial Liberation Committee, and the traitors headed by the puppet mayor Zhang Guodong formed the Qi City Liberation Committee, waiting for the Kuomintang to take over.

At that time, Qiqihar was the political, economic, military and cultural center of the northwest region, an important transportation hub, and a strategic place that the Kuomintang and the Communists vigorously competed for. The Kuomintang reactionaries dispatched a large number of military, party affairs, and secret agents to infiltrate Qiqihar and used various means to recruit pseudo-police and special agents, traitors and lackeys, hooligans, and Japanese and pseudo scattered soldiers to form the Guangfu Army, the Advancing Army, the Advance Army, and the Security Army, and to collect bandits and build up a counter-revolutionary armed force.

There are 138 gangs of Shangqiyue bandits and bandits in various counties in the Qishi area, and the armed force is more than 13,700 people, which is more than four times the armed force of our army. Together, they have attacked cities and seized land, instigated counter-revolutionary rebellions, divided and disintegrated the people's armed forces, tortured, tortured, and assassinated our revolutionary cadres and masses, destroyed railways and bridges, intercepted transport materials, and burned and plundered with arrogance.

In order to establish and defend the nascent political power, Zhu Guanghe, who arrived in Qiqihar earlier, under the leadership of the Party Central Committee and the Northeast Bureau, established the Nenjiang Provincial Working Committee and the Nenjiang Provincial Military District on November 9, 1945, with Wang Minggui as the commander of the military region, Zhu Guang as the deputy secretary of the provincial working committee, and the deputy political commissar of the provincial military region.

They set up the Second Brigade of the People's Self-Defense Army of the Nenjiang Provincial Military Region, and the cadres selected and dispatched from the counties under their jurisdiction successively established public security bureaus, public security brigades, and people's self-defense regiments, forming a powerful local people's armed force, forming a new force to suppress bandits, killing and executing several bandit leaders such as Ma Chuanyue and Bai Xingkui, and dealing a fierce blow to the bandits. In December 1945, the Kuomintang "received" the major members into the northeast for "reception" according to the agreement signed between the Soviet Union and the Kuomintang government. Implementing Mao Zedong's strategic principle of "giving way to the main road and occupying two carriages" in "establishing a consolidated military and political base area in the countryside," we withdrew from Qi City to Gannan County at 8 p.m. on the 30th. Taking advantage of the retreat to the countryside, Zhu Guang and Wang Minggui concentrated their forces on personally commanding the performance of suppressing bandits. In the battle of Zhongxing Village in Gannan alone, it crushed the five or six thousand Guangfu troops who were trying to capture the county seat of Gannan and defended the base area. Subsequently, our army continued to grow and develop, and in only four months, most of the armed bandits were eliminated. Lindian, Fuyu, Kedong, Keshan, Baiquan, Yi'an, Nehe and other counties were liberated one after another.

Peng Jiqun, a Kuomintang receiver who was entrenched in Qiqihar, saw that the general situation had gone, and on April 23, 1946, he fled by plane in a hurry, and our army entered the city on the 24th, liberating Qiqihar for the second time.

At the end of December 1946, Zhu Guang was appointed secretary of the Qiqihar Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China. More than a year after his arrival, Qiqihar became a consolidated rear area and revolutionary base area, with young people joining the army and civilian workers participating in the war, paying money, materials, and workers to organize stretcher teams and transport teams, supply military supplies, donate money, and sew condolence bags. In 1947 alone, women made 53,000 pairs of military shoes, 30,000 military hats, and 100,000 sets of military uniforms, which effectively supported the front line and contributed to the Liberation War.

With his firm belief in communism, his love for the people, his hatred for the enemy, and his enthusiasm for his work, Zhu Guang, with his wit, decisiveness, steadfastness, and talent, left an indelible page in the annals of the history of Qiqihar and erected an eternal monument in the hearts of the people of Qiqihar.

Source of the manuscript| Municipal Archives (Municipal Party Committee History Research Office)

The author | Song Jiaxing

Look at the editor| Chen Li