On this day, 53 years ago, on December 10, 1972 (November 5, 1972, the lunar calendar), Deng Zihui, a revolutionary and one of the founders of the Western Fujian Revolutionary Base Area, passed away. On December 10, 1972, Deng Zihui, a revolutionary and one of the founders of the Western Fujian Revolutionary Base Area, passed away. Deng Zihui (1896-1972) was a great communist fighter, an outstanding proletarian revolutionary, politician, and an outstanding leader in agricultural work. People from Longyan, Fujian. He entered Longyan Middle School in 1913. During the May 4th Movement, he was baptized by revolution and founded the progressive publication "Rock Sound" to promote Marxism. Joined the Communist Party of China in 1926. He served successively as Minister of Propaganda of the Longyan County Committee of the Communist Party of China, Secretary of the Special Committee of the Communist Party of China in Western Fujian, Chairman of the Western Fujian Soviet Government, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Riots in Western Fujian, and Party Representative of the 57th Regiment of the 19th Division of the Seventh Army. He led the peasant uprising in western Fujian and the creation of the Western Fujian Revolutionary Base Area. He was one of the founders of the Western Fujian Red Army and Soviet Area. In 1931, he worked in the Provisional Central Government of the Soviet Republic of China and participated in all anti-"encirclement and suppression" operations in the Central Revolutionary Base Area. In 1935, he served as vice chairman of the Military and Political Committee of Southwest Fujian and led a three-year guerrilla war. In 1938, he served as director of the Political Department of the New Fourth Army and director of the Political Department of the Jiangbei Command, and participated in leading the establishment of the Huainan Anti-Japanese Base Area. After the Southern Anhui Incident in 1941, he served as director of the Political Department of the New Fourth Army. In June 1945, he was elected as a member of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He has served successively as political commissar of the Central China Military Region, deputy political commissar of the Central China Military Region and the Central China Field Army, and the Fourth Field Army and the second political commissar of the Central China Military Region. He participated in leading the Liberation War in East China, the Central China, and Central South regions and the Huaihai and Crossing Rivers battles. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as Second Secretary of the Central South Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Second Political Commissar of the Central South Military Region, Vice Chairman of the Central South Military Commission, Vice Chairman of the Central South Military and Political Commission, Vice Chairman of the State Planning Commission, etc., leading land reform and various democratic reform movements in the Central and South region. After 1953, he served as Minister of Rural Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Vice Premier of the State Council, and Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Adhering to the socialist direction, putting forward the correct policy for developing the rural socialist economy, putting forward correct opinions on some major issues in the agricultural cooperative movement, and putting forward the idea of implementing a production responsibility system for the rural people's commune movement, etc., which were unfairly treated. He was severely persecuted during the Cultural Revolution and died in Beijing on December 10, 1972 due to illness. In March 1981, the unjust case was rehabilitated and his reputation was restored. Member of the 8th and 9th Central Committees and representative of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd National People's Congress.