On this day, 77 years ago, on February 28, 1948 (January 19, 1948, the traitor Zhou Fohai died of illness in prison. Zhou Fohai had a complicated life. On February 28, 1948, Zhou Fohai died of illness in Nanjing Laohuqiao Prison. Zhou Fohai was from Yuanling, Hunan. He went to Japan to study in 1917. When he returned to China in 1920, he joined the Communist Group in Shanghai. After returning to Japan, he organized a Communist Group in Japan. In July 1921, he attended the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China. After the meeting, he still returned to Japan to study. Graduated from the Department of Economics at Kyoto Imperial University in 1924. After returning to China, he left the Communist Party and joined the Kuomintang. In January 1927, he was appointed Major General Secretary-General and Director of the Political Department of Huangpu Wuhan Branch. In 1933, he served as Minister of the Civil Training Department of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang. In 1938, he served as Acting Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang. In December, he fled to Vietnam with Wang Jingwei and publicly surrendered to Japan. After the establishment of the puppet government in March 1940, he served as Minister of Finance and Minister of Police, Acting President of the Executive Yuan and Mayor of Shanghai Special City. In September 1945, he was escorted to Chongqing under house arrest by the Kuomintang Military Unification Bureau. In 1946, he was transferred to Nanjing, handed over to the court for trial, and sentenced to death. In March 1947, Chiang Kai-shek issued a pardon order and changed it to life imprisonment.