On this day 42 years ago, on June 10, 1983 (April 29, 1983 lunar calendar), Liao Chengzhi passed away. Hu Yaobang (center), Wan Li (right), and Liao Chengzhi (left) attended the meeting Liao Chengzhi, a native of Huiyang, Guangdong, was born in Tokyo, Japan on September 25, 1908. His father, Mr. Liao Zhongkai, and his mother, Ms. He Xiangning, were famous elders of the Kuomintang and close comrades-in-arms of Mr. Sun Yat-sen. Liao Chengzhi was influenced by the democratic revolution since he was a child and accepted Marxism as a student. In 1925, he participated in the student movement and the workers' movement in Guangzhou, and joined the Kuomintang in the same year. After "April 12", he broke away from the Kuomintang. Later, he engaged in anti-Japanese patriotic movements in Japan, and was arrested and deported by the Japanese government many times. In the spring of 1928, he joined the Communist Party of China in Shanghai. In 1929, he was sent to Germany to lead the Chinese seafarers' movement and served as the branch committee and secretary of the Hamburg International Seafarers' Club. In the summer of 1930, he went to Moscow to participate in the Fifth Congress of the Workers' International. After returning to China in 1932, he served as the head of the propaganda department of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions and the secretary of the party group of the All-China Seafarers' Federation in Shanghai. In August 1933, he joined the Red Army and served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet District and the head of the propaganda department of the trade union. In October 1937, he was sent to work in the National Command Area by the party. Later, he went to Hong Kong to organize the Eighth Route Army Office to raise funds and materials for the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as Vice Minister of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, Vice Minister of the Foreign Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee, Chairperson of the All-China Youth Federation, Director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission, Honorary Chairperson of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, and President of Overseas Chinese University. Liao Chengzhi is the Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress and was elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee at the First Plenary Session of the 12th Central Committee. Comrade Liao Chengzhi has made indelible achievements in the long-term revolutionary struggle, in the cause of socialist construction, in the cause of consolidating and developing the patriotic united front, in strengthening friendly relations with the people of all countries in the world and striving for world peace, and enjoys a high reputation both inside and outside the Party and at home and abroad. On July 24, 1982, Liao Chengzhi wrote to Chiang Ch