On this day 79 years ago, on June 3, 1946 (May 4, 1946 in the lunar calendar), the traitor Chen Gongbo was executed. On June 3, 1946, Chen Gongbo, the heir of Wang Jingwei, the big traitor and the chairperson of the pseudo-Nanjing government, was executed. Chen Gongbo, a native of Hainan, Guangdong, born in 1892. He studied at Peking University in his early years. In March 1921, he initiated the Guangzhou Communist Group with Chen Duxiu, Tan Pingshan, etc. In July, he participated in the Communist Party of China. In 1922, he was placed on probation by the party for supporting Chen Jiongming's rebellion against Sun Yat-sen. The following year he was expelled from the party. In March 1923, he transferred from Japan to study at Columbia University in the United States and obtained a master's degree in economics. In 1925, he returned to China and served as the secretary of the Party Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee, the director of the Political Training Department of the Military Commission of the Kuomintang Government, and the head of the Peasant Department of the Central Party Department of the Kuomintang. In 1926, he was elected as a member of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee and Standing Committee, and then changed to the Lieutenant General Director of the Administrative Bureau of the General Command of the National Revolutionary Army. He joined the army in the Northern Expedition. Later, he served as the acting head of the Organization Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee. In 1927, he was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee and the Central Political Committee, and director of the General Political Department of the National Rev In 1929, he was expelled from the party by the three major Kuomintang parties. In the winter of the same year, he contacted Zhang Fakui, Li Zongren, Tang Shengzhi, Shi Yousan, etc., and formed the "Party Protection and National Salvation Army" to carry out military anti-Chiang, which soon failed. In November 1931, he resumed his Kuomintang party membership and was elected as an executive member of the Kuomintang Central Committee and a member of the Central Political Conference. In December 1938, he followed Wang Jingwei to publicly surrender to Japan and served as the head of the legislative court of the Wang puppet government. He also served as the mayor of Shanghai Special City, the chief of the Shanghai Municipal Police, the commander of the Shanghai Municipal Security, the director of the Political Security Department of In November 1944, after Wang Jingwei's death, he took over as the acting chairperson of the pseudo-Nationalist government, the president of the Executive Yuan, the chairperson of the pseudo-Kuomintang Central Executive Committee, the chairperson of the Central Political Committee, and the chairperson of the General of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government. Author of "Wry Smile", "Cold Wind Collection", etc. Chen Gongbo was tried in the Jiangsu High Court