On this day, 26 years ago, on March 2, 1999 (January 15, 1999 in the lunar calendar), Wang Heshou, an outstanding leader of the CPC's discipline inspection work, passed away. Photo of Wang Heshou when he joined the Communist Party of China in 1925. On March 2, 1999, Wang Heshou, an outstanding leader in the discipline inspection work of the Communist Party of China and former second secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China, died in Beijing due to ineffective medical treatment. Wang Heshou was born on April 19, 1909 in Tang County, Hebei Province. In 1923, he was admitted to Baoding Zhili Second Normal School. During the summer vacation of the following year, Wang Heshou, only 15 years old, returned to Tang County to engage in progressive propaganda activities under the arrangement of the school's secret party and league organization. In April 1925, he joined the Communist Youth League of China. In October of the same year, he joined the Communist Party of China while studying at the Party School secretly established by the Northern District Party Committee of the Communist Party of China. Later, he served as Secretary of the Shijiazhuang Branch of the All-China Railway Federation of Trade Unions and Secretary of the All-China Railway Federation of Trade Unions. In 1927, he was sent to study at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow, the Soviet Union. After returning to China in 1928, he has been engaged in labor movement work under the leadership of the Party, mainly carrying out propaganda and organizational work among young workers in the White Area. He has successively served as Minister and Secretary of the Organization Department of the Manchu Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League, Director of the Central Youth League School of the Communist Youth League, Secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League and Minister of the Organization Department of the Hebei Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League. In the long-term struggle against white terror, he was arrested six times, severely tortured and brutally persecuted, and he has always been unyielding and upright. After his sixth arrest, he persisted in the struggle in prison. Although his sentence was increased by the enemy, he remained unyielding until the "July 7" Anti-Japanese War broke out and was rescued and released from prison by the Party Central Committee. During the 13-year struggle in the White Area, Wang Heshou went through hardships, his fighting spirit became stronger, and he always adhered to his revolutionary integrity. During the eight-year Anti-Japanese War, Comrade Wang Heshou worked in the Organization Department of the Central Committee of Yan 'an. Under the leadership of Chen Yun and Li Fuchun, he served as the chief of the Cadre Section. He adhered to the party's cadre work line of bold development without allowing bad people to invade, and the cadre policy of having both ability and political integrity and appointing people on their merits. He was good at identifying, using, and caring for cadres. With Chen Yun's support, he waged unremitting struggles against the "Left" mistakes and bad styles of Wang Ming, Kang Sheng and others who cracked down on cadres and excluded dissidents. He made important contributions in building the organizational department into a cadre home, developing and strengthening the party's cadre team, and enhancing the unity of the cadre team. In May 1949, Wang Heshou was appointed Minister of Industry of the Northeast People's Government, shouldering the important leadership task of restoring and building Northeast industries. In 1952, Wang Heshou was transferred to the post of Minister of the Ministry of Heavy Industry. In 1956, Wang Heshou served as Minister of Metallurgical Industry. At the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held in December 1978, Wang Heshou was elected as deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China, which was restored and rebuilt, and later served as the Standing Secretary and Second Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. During this period, he concurrently served as deputy head of the Central Leading Group to Review the Cases of Lin Biao and Jiang Qing Counter-Revolutionary Groups and deputy director of the National Steering Committee for Party Consolidation. He was by-elected as a member of the Central Committee at the Fourth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Wang Heshou's nine years in the leadership position of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection were at a time when our party was in a new historical period of rectifying order, rectifying the source, and entering reform and opening up. The task of rectifying the party's style and maintaining party discipline was arduous and the responsibility was heavy. He participated in leading the work of redressing a large number of unjust, false and wrongful cases left over from the "Cultural Revolution" and history, especially the major unjust, false and wrongful cases committed by comrades such as Liu Shaoqi, Qu Qiubai, and Pan Hannian. With a high sense of political responsibility of being responsible for history, the party and the people, with fearless courage, he adhered to principles, eliminated interference, settled wrongs and corrected mistakes, and restored history to its true colors. Wang Heshou attaches great importance to the institutional construction and ideological construction of party style and party discipline. Together with other leading comrades, he presided over the drafting of important party regulations such as "Several Guidelines on Political Life within the Party" and "Several Provisions on the Living Treatment of Senior Cadres", and organized and carried out a large number of publicity and education work on party spirit, party style and party discipline. In October 1987, at the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Comrade Wang Heshou was elected as a member of the Central Advisory Commission and no longer served as the leadership of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. He left behind a distinctive image of an outstanding leading cadre on the discipline inspection front who was selfless and fearless, upright and loyal to defending the principles of the party and the interests of the people, and left behind valuable spiritual wealth for the discipline inspection work. Comrade Wang Heshou is a representative of the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China, an alternate member of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and a member of the 11th and 12th Central Committees. Wang Heshou (first from left) during the Yan 'an Period In the summer of 1985, Wang Heshou (right) reported his work to Comrade Chen Yun. In 1985, Wang Heshou was working. In 1986, Wang Heshou (left) visited the metallurgical industry exhibition