On this day 130 years ago, October 7, 1895 (August 19, 1895 lunar calendar), Hu Juwen, the founder of the China Democratic National Construction Association, was born. Hu Juwen was born on October 7, 1895 in Jiading County, Jiangsu Province (now Shanghai). During his teenage years, influenced by patriotism and democracy, he was distressed by the poverty of the weak and the poor, and foreign aggression was urgent. He decided to run industry all his life to revitalize the nation. To this end, he enrolled in the Beijing Higher Industrial College in 1914 to study mechanics. After graduation, he volunteered as a worker at the Hanyang Iron Factory and later served as the director of the internship workshop of Shanghai Tongji Medical College. In 1921, he sold his ancestral land and founded the Xinmin Machinery Factory with the support of relatives and friends. Afterwards, he successively established cooperative hardware factories, Huangdu Electric Light Company, Great Wall Mechanism Brick and Tile Company, Shicheng Kiln Factory and other enterprises, and served as the director and general manager of the factory. He worked diligently, carefully researched and imitated new machines, and many of the products cost less than foreign products, while the quality was comparable to imported products, contributing to the development of national industry. In 1927, he was promoted by his peers as the chairperson of the Shanghai Machinery Industry Association and was re-elected for ten years. In order to boycott Japanese goods, he organized the China Machinery United Company and served as the chairperson of the Shanghai cotton cloth market. On January 28, 1932, the Japanese imperialist army invaded Shanghai. General Cai Tingkai led the 19th Route Army to rise up against the enemy. Comrade Hu Juewen cooperated with Huang Yanpei to mobilize the city's business community to support the Anti-Japanese War through organizations such as the Chinese Vocational Education Society. He ran day and night, contacted and organized the demolition machines of the business community to set up workshops in southern Shanghai, dispatched technical workers to support the army factory, and rushed to make weapons and ammunition for my defenders. For dozens of days, his beard was full of cheeks, so he grew his beard to show his firm will to oppose imperialism and save the country, showing his lofty national integrity and loyal patriotism. On August 13, 1937, the Japanese invading army landed in Jinshan, Shanghai. In order to preserve the national industry and support the Anti-Japanese War, Hu Juewen ran with a high degree of patriotic enthusiasm and organized the internal relocation of more than 100 private factories in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Ningxia. During this period, he founded enterprises such as Dazhong Machinery Factory and Xinmin Machinery Factory in Guilin, Qiyang and other places. He served as the chairperson of the Central South District Industrial Association and the executive director and chairperson of the well-known Qianchuan Factory Federation. These two organizations played an important role in the production of military supplies and civilian use, uniting national industry and commerce to raise patriotic consciousness, and engaging in the anti-Japanese democratic movement. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, American goods flooded the domestic market. However, the Kuomintang government ordered the cancellation of all government contracts with private factories, leaving the national industry in a desperate situation. The harsh social reality made Hu and other progressive business people realize that just doing business alone cannot save the country, and that ethnic industrialists must have their own political groups. In these days, they came into contact with the leaders of the Communist Party of China such as Zhou Enlai, Dong Biwu, Wang Ruofei, Deng Yingchao and Mao Zedong in Chongqing. After much deliberation, he and Huang Yanpei, Zhang Naiqi and others initiated the establishment of the Democratic National Construction Association, which united patriotic ethnic businesspeople and connected intellectuals, and actively participated in the fiery struggle of the democratic revolution. He opposed civil war, insisted on peace, opposed dictatorship, and adhered to democracy. In 1948, due to the persecution of the Kuomintang reactionaries, the Democratic Construction was forced to go underground. Hu founded the "China Industrial Monthly" in Shanghai to cover the continued activities of the Democratic Construction. On the eve of the liberation of Shanghai, several other major leaders of the Civil Construction Organization went to work in Hong Kong and the Liberated Areas respectively. Hu Juewen was entrusted by the organization and insisted on leading the underground work of the Civil Construction Organization in Shanghai. In the suffering old China, Comrade Hu Juewen adhered to the anti-imperialist, patriotic and democratic stance, waged unremitting struggles for the development of national industry, and made important contributions to the cause of national liberation and the new democratic revolution. In September 1949, Hu Juewen attended the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which formulated the "Common Programme" and elected the Central People's Government of New China, as a representative of the Democratic National Construction Association, and made achievements for the birth of the People's Republic of China. After the founding of New China, during the period of resistance to the United States and aid to Korea, he donated all his savings to the country for the purpose of fighting the enemy and supported his son to join the army and enter the DPRK. In 1952, he served as the deputy head of the condolence regiment to the DPRK and personally went to the war-torn frontline to visit our most lovely people's soldiers. During the country's transition period, he promoted and promoted the principles and policies of the Communist Party of China and the people's government with great enthusiasm, took the lead in implementing public-private partnerships in his own enterprises, and led his colleagues in the industrial and commercial circles to actively cooperate with the country's socialist transformation. In the years that followed, he set an example and, together with the personnel of the Democratic Construction Agency, did a lot of unity and education work in the industrial and commercial circles, and made commendable achievements for the country's socialist construction. Since the founding of New China, Hu Juwen has been elected as vice chairperson and vice mayor of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; deputy to the first National People's Congress, member of the Standing Committee of the Second and Third National People's Congress, vice chairperson of the Standing Committee of the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth National People's Congress; member of the First, Second, Third and Fourth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and member of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Hu Juwen is one of the founders and outstanding leaders of the China Democratic National Construction Association and has made important contributions to the establishment and development of the People's Construction. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Democratic Construction Corporation, he served as a standing director and was elected as a deputy chairperson of the Central Committee at the first and second national congresses of the People's Democratic Construction Corporation. Since 1979, he has served as the chairperson of the third Central Committee of the People's Democratic Construction Corporation and the chairperson of the fourth Central Committee of the People's Democratic Construction Corporation. He led the People's Democratic Construction Corporation to realize the shift of work focus and created the best period in the history of the People's Democratic Construction Corporation. At the end of 1987, in order to further promote the replacement of the old and new leadership of the Central Committee of the People's Democratic Construction Corporation, he resolutely resigned as the chairperson and actively recommended new people, which produced a remarkable political influence inside and outside the People's Democratic Construction Corporation. He was successively elected as the honorary chairperson of the Fourth and Fifth Central Committees of the People's Democratic Construction Corporation. Since 1965, Comrade Hu has served as the acting director and chairperson of the China Vocational Education Society, making new contributions to the development of vocational education in our country. He also served as the first, second, third, fourth and fifth standing members of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. He died in Beijing on April 16, 1989.