Fifty years ago today, on April 2, 1975 (February 21, 1975 in the lunar calendar), Dong Biwu, one of the founders of the Communist Party of China, passed away. Dong Biwu in his youth On April 2, 1975, Dong Biwu, one of the founders of the Communist Party of China and an outstanding leader of the party and the country, passed away in Beijing at the age of 90 (born in 1885). Dong Biwu is from Huang 'an (Hong' an), Hubei Province. In his youth, he joined the Alliance led by Sun Yat-sen and participated in the Revolution of 1911. In 1920, the Communist Group was established in Hubei. In 1921, he attended the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China. During the Second Revolutionary Civil War, he was engaged in building the Party and the Red Political Power in the Central Revolutionary Base Area. In 1934, he participated in the 25,000-mile Long March. During the Anti-Japanese War and after Japan's surrender, he was one of the representatives of the Chinese Communist Party's negotiations and engaged in tit-for-tat struggles with the Kuomintang's counter-revolutionary policies of undermining the Anti-Japanese War and resisting communism and the people. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served successively as Director of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Committee, Vice Premier of the State Council, President of the Supreme People's Court, Vice Chairman of the Second CPPCC, Secretary of the Central Supervisory Commission, Vice Chairman and Acting Chairman of the People's Republic of China, and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. He has made significant contributions to the socialist legal system.