On this day 35 years ago, on September 21, 1990 (August 3, 1990 in the lunar calendar), Xu Xiangqian, one of the founders of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, passed away. Marshal Xu Xiangqian passed away on September 21, 1990. Xu Xiangqian, one of the founders of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and an outstanding leader who had long held important leadership positions in the party, the state and the army, passed away due to illness in Beijing at the age of 88. During his youth, Xu Xiangqian was influenced by the May Fourth Movement and participated in progressive activities. In 1924, he was admitted to the first phase of Huangpu Military Academy and threw himself into the democratic revolutionary struggle against imperialism and feudalism. He joined the Communist Party of China in March 1927. After the failure of the Great Revolution, he participated in the Guangzhou Uprising and later moved to the Hailufeng area to lead the armed struggle with Peng Pai and others. During the period of the Agrarian Revolutionary War, he successively served as a member of the Special Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Ehu-Henan side, chairperson of the Military Committee of the Revolutionary Committee on the Ehu-Henan side, member of the Central Revolutionary Military Committee of the Chinese Soviet Republic, commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Front Army, and executive member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Soviet Republic. Comrade Xu Qianqian showed extraordinary organizational leadership and military command skills in the arduous struggle to create the Red Army, carry out armed struggles, and open up the revolutionary base areas in Ehu-Henan-Anhui and Sichuan-Shaanxi provinces, and made special contributions to the party's establishment of a heroic and capable main force of the Red Army. During the Long March, after the Red Army's First and Fourth Front armies met, he served as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy's general command department of the Red Army, actively supported the central government's strategic policy of going north to establish the Sichuan After the meeting in Huining, the Central Military Commission instructed the Red Fourth Front Army to cross the Yellow River westward to implement the Ningxia campaign plan. After following the orders of the Military Commission, he served as the vice chairperson of the Military and Political Committee of the West Route Army and the general commander of the West Route Army. He led his army to continue westward and fought the enemy in the Hexi Corridor, effectively coordinating the strategic actions of the Red Army in Hedong. During the Anti-Japanese War, he successively served as a member of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, deputy division commander of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, commander of the 1st Column of the Eighth Route Army, deputy commander of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia-Jinsui Coalition Defense Army, and president of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University. Together with Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping, he led the opening of the anti-Japanese base areas in Shanxi, Hebei, Henan and southern Hebei; unified command of the troops of the Eighth Route Army in Shandong, northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui, persisted in During the War of Liberation, he successively served as the deputy commander of the Jin-Hebei-Luyu Military Region, the deputy commander of the North China Military Region and the commander and political commissar of the 1st Corps (later changed to the 18th Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army), the commander and political commissar of the Taiyuan Frontline Command, and the secretary of the general front committee of the Taiyuan Front of the Communist Party of China. He commanded the battles of Yuncheng, Linfen, Jinzhong and Taiyuan, and Shanxi was completely liberated. Comrade Xu Qianqian strategized and commanded well in the long-term revolutionary war. He had both wisdom and courage. He was decisive and flexible. He was good at using weak enemies to be strong, and using less to win more. He made immortal contributions to the establishment of the People's Republic of China. With his own war practice and theory, he made important contributions to enriching Mao Zedong's military thought. After the founding of the People's Liberation Army, he successively served as Chief of General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Vice Chairperson of the People's Revolutionary Military Commission of the Central People's Government, Vice Chairperson of the National Defense Commission, Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Vice Chairperson of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, Vice Premier of the State Council and Minister of National Defense, and Vice Chairperson of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of Marshal of the People's Republic of China. He worked hard to consolidate national defense, build a modernized and regularized revolutionary army, and build a militia reserve force, and made outstanding contributions. During the "Cultural Revolution", he fought resolutely against Lin Biao and the Jiangqing counter-revolutionary group. In February 1967, together with several older generation revolutionaries, he was righteous and strongly condemned and exposed the anti-party and chaotic military conspiracy of Xu Xiangqian was a member of the 7th to 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He was elected as a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee at the 11th Plenary Session of the 8th Central Committee. He was a member of the 11th and 12th Politburo of the Central Committee. Xu Xiangqian said that there will be no farewell to the body and no memorial service behind him. Xu Shuai approves documents Xu Shuai is with his family