On this day, 39 years ago, on October 22, 1986 (September 19, 1986 in the lunar calendar), politician and military strategist Ye Jianying passed away. Ye Jianying At 1:16 on October 22, 1986, Comrade Ye Jianying, a long-term leader of important leadership positions in the Party and the country, died in Beijing due to ineffective medical treatment at the age of 90. Ye Jianying was born in 1897. His original name was Ye Yiwei, and his word was Cangbai. A native of Mei County, Guangdong Province. He entered Yunnan Jianwu Hall in 1917. Participated in the preparation of Whampoa Military Academy and served as deputy director of the Professor Department. In 1926, he served as commander of the new Second Division of the National Revolutionary Army, and later served as chief of staff of the Fourth Army. Joined the Communist Party of China in 1927. Participated in leading the Guangzhou Uprising. In 1928, he went to Moscow to study. After returning to China in 1930, he served as a member of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission and Minister of the General Staff Headquarters, Principal of the Red Army School, Commander of the Ruijin Garrison, Chief of Staff of the First Front Army of the Red Army, Commander of the Fujian Military Region, Director of the Fourth Bureau of the Military Commission, Chief of Staff of the General Headquarters of the Former Enemy of the Red Army, Chief of Staff of the First Army of the Red Army and the Military Commission. Participated in the Long March. During the Anti-Japanese War, he served as chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army and later worked on the united front in Nanjing, Hankou, Changsha, Guilin, Chongqing and other places. In 1941, he served as Chief of Staff of the Central Military Commission. During the War of Liberation, he served as a representative of the Communist Party of China in Peiping's "Military Mediation and Implementation Department", deputy chief of staff of the People's Revolutionary Military Commission of China, secretary of the Rear Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, chief of staff of the People's Liberation Army of China, and mayor of Peiping City. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as Vice Chairman of the China-South Military and Political Committee, First Secretary of the South China Branch, Chairman of the Guangdong Province People's Government and Mayor of Guangzhou City, Commander of the Guangdong Military Region, Vice Chairman of the China-South Administrative Committee, Acting Commander of the China-South Military Region, Vice Chairman of the People's Revolutionary Military Commission, Minister of the Supervision Department of the Armed Forces of the People's Liberation Army, Acting Minister of the Training Supervision Department, President of the Academy of Military Sciences, Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, and Minister of National Defense. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of Marshal. He is the Vice Chairman of the First, Second and Third National Defense Commissions, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress, Vice Chairman of the Fourth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Member of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Secretary of the Secretariat of the Eighth Central Committee, Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, Member of the Political Bureau of the 9th CPC Central Committee, Vice Chairman of the 10th and 11th CPC Central Committee, and Standing Member of the Political Bureau of the 12th CPC Central Committee. Due to age and health reasons, Ye Jianying resigned as chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in 1983 and resigned as leadership of the party, state and military in 1985. Ye Jianying is a well-known "Confucian general" in our army. He has rich experience, profound knowledge, both civil and military, wisdom and courage, and has deep attainments in politics, military and even literature. And his later years, especially after he was over seventy years old, were even more magnificent and magnificent. In "Eighty Books", he once wrote,"I like to compose an ode to dusk, and the green mountains illuminate the whole day." At the age of 81, he wrote in a poem: "Winning eight out of ten in a century, the old horse will still travel thousands of miles." These extraordinary poems have now become widely circulated maxims. Young Ye Jianying, middle-aged Ye Jianying, elderly Ye Jianying, Ye Jianying's hearse passed through Guangzhou Street, and Guangzhou people lined the road to express their condolences.