On November 5, 2000 (October 10, 2000 in the lunar calendar), Comrade Hu Sheng passed away. On November 5, 2000, Comrade Hu Sheng, an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a time-tested and loyal communist fighter, a proletarian revolutionary, a famous Marxist theorist and historian, and vice chairperson of the Seventh and Eighth National Committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, passed away in Shanghai due to illness at the age of 82. Comrade Hu Sheng was born on January 11, 1918 in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. In 1931, the September 18th Incident occurred when he entered high school. The deep national crisis aroused his strong patriotic enthusiasm. From then on, he began to contact Marxist-Leninist works and publications of the underground party of the Communist Party of China. In 1934, he was admitted to the Department of Philosophy of Peking University. In September 1935, he participated in the revolution in Shanghai and engaged in cultural activities led by the Communist Party and the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Movement. He taught himself and wrote for publications such as Reading and Life, and participated in the editing of New Knowledge. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he went to Wuhan and joined the Communist Party of China in 1938. After that, he participated in the party's cultural leadership institutions and united front work in Wuhan, Xiangfan, Chongqing and other places. He successively served as editor of publications such as "The National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression", member of the Cultural Work Committee of Xiangfan's Fifth Theater Zone, editor-in-chief of Hubei Daily, member of the Cultural and Cultural Commission of the Southern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, editor of Lifestyle Bookstore, and editor-in-chief of Reading Monthly. After the Southern Anhui Incident in January 1941, he went to Hong Kong and served as the editorial board member After the outbreak of the Pacific War in December of the same year, he returned to Chongqing and served as a member of the Cultural and Cultural Committee of the Southern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the editorial board member of the Xinhua Daily, the party's organ. During the Liberation War, he worked for the party in Shanghai and Hong Kong, successively serving as an alternate member of the Shanghai Working Committee of the Communist Party of China, a member of the Cultural and Cultural Committee, and the editor-in-chief of Shanghai and Hong Kong Life Bookstores. He often wrote articles for publications such as Democracy in Shanghai, Wenxue, and the Theory and Reality Series in Hong Kong. In October 1948, he left Hong Kong and arrived in the Liberated Area of Pingshan County, Hebei Province. He served as the head of the textbook writing team of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the deputy director of the textbook editing committee of the North China People's Government. In September 1949, During the Revolutionary War, Comrade Hu Sheng published a large number of articles and many books in the newspapers and periodicals directly under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and other progressive newspapers. Some of these were excellent popular books that promoted Marxist philosophy in light of China's actual situation; some were ideological and political commentaries that publicized the Party's theories and political propositions and criticized erroneous ideological trends; some were academic works that discussed the history of Chinese feudal society and modern Chinese history with new perspectives and new methods. "Imperialism and Chinese Politics", published in 1948, is a masterpiece of academic work that deeply revealed Chinese politics for more than 80 years after the Opium War. These works have been reprinted many times, and some have been translated into various foreign languages. They have had a great impact at home and abroad, especially in the ideological and cultural circles and among the intellectual youth. In the hostile environment of the Kuomintang-ruled areas during the war, he defied the reactionary political pressure of the Kuomintang and used Marxism as a weapon to charge on the ideological and cultural front, showing the political and theoretical party spirit and vigor of a young cultural warrior trained by the party. From the age of 17 to the age of 30, he published more than one million words of articles and works. These words, together with his multi-faceted united front work in the cultural sector under the leadership of the party, made him famous in the social science community before the founding of New China. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Comrade Hu Sheng successively served as Party Secretary of the General Administration of Publishing, President of the People's Publishing House, Secretary-General of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Editor-in-Chief of Study Magazine, First Director of the Marxist-Leninist Institute of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Deputy Director of the Political Research Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Red Flag Magazine, and Vice Dean of the Central Marxist-Leninist Institute. From the 1950s to the mid-1960s, he participated in the editing of "Selected Works of Mao Zedong", was responsible for the party's theoretical research and propaganda work, participated in the drafting of many important documents of the party and the country (such as the 1954 report on the draft constitution of the People's Republic of China, the political report of the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, etc.), participated in the discussions on important academic and theoretical issues convened by Comrade Mao Zedong and the Party Central Committee, and made great efforts to study, interpret and popularize Mao Zedong Thought, provide Marxist enlightenment education to the cadres and the masses, and publicize the party's principles and policies. In the early 1950s, he wrote "Outline of Modern Chinese History" (1840-1919) and published "The Staging Problem of Modern Chinese History", which had a great impact on the teaching and research of modern Chinese history later, forming a distinctive system of modern Chinese history research. During the Cultural Revolution ", Comrade Hu Sheng was persecuted and sent to cadre schools to work. After 1973, he gradually resumed work. In 1975, he was appointed as one of the heads of the Political Research Office of the State Council. He participated in the collation of Mao Zedong's works and was in charge of the restoration of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He made arduous efforts for the comprehensive rectification led by Comrade Deng Xiaoping. During this period, he also started writing the book" From the Opium War to the May 4th Movement ", which was published by the People's Publishing House in 1981. This work of more than 700,000 words systematically discusses the development and changes of China's social and economic structure and various classes in the eighty years after the Opium War, and has become an excellent work to promote modern history research and patriotic education. Since entering the new era of reform and opening up, Comrade Hu Sheng has served as Deputy Director of the Office of the Editing Committee of Mao Zedong's Works and Deputy Director of the Central Documentation Research Office of the Communist Party of China in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Since 1982, he has served as Director of the Party History Research Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and in 1994, he served as Deputy Director of the Leading Group for Party History Work of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. From 1985 to 1998, he served as President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He also served as Deputy Chairperson of the Basic Law Drafting Committee During this period, he continued to participate in or be responsible for the drafting of many important documents of the Party and the country, including participating in the drafting of the Resolution on Certain Historical Issues of the Party since the Founding of the People's Republic of China and the revision of the new constitution, presiding over domestic academic seminars on philosophy and social sciences, and participating in important international academic and cultural exchanges and exchanges with Taiwanese scholars. He played an important role in summarizing historical experience, realizing a historic shift in the focus of the Party's work, and publicizing the Party's principles and policies of reform, opening up, and socialist modernization. Comrade Hu Sheng made important contributions to the study of the Party's history when he served as director of the Party History Research Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of the Party History Society of China. "Seventy Years of the Communist Party of China", edited by him, is an authoritative concise reading of the history of the Communist Party of China, and has English translations distributed abroad. The first volume of "History of the Communist Party of China" published in 1991 is also an important work on the history of the Communist Party of China written by him. Comrade Hu Sheng has long served as the president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the deputy director of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, and also served as the president of the Chinese History Society and the president of Sun Yat-sen Research Association. After the establishment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he served as a member and standing committee of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences. He attached great importance to the discipline construction and team building of social sciences in our country, emphasizing that social sciences should have a great development in order to adapt to the needs of He adhered to the implementation of the party's intellectual policy and the "Double Hundred" policy, respected science, cared for talents, and worked hard to create a good environment for academic research. In 1990, the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters awarded him the title of academician. In the 1980s and 1990s, Comrade Hu Sheng published some influential treatises. In 1987, he wrote the article "Why China Can't Take the Capitalist Road", which deeply analyzed China's special national conditions and powerfully demonstrated the historical inevitability of China's adherence to the socialist road. In 1991, his speech "On China's Reform and Opening-up" at Asia University in Japan was widely praised at home and abroad. In June 1994, he published a speech entitled "What is socialism and how to build it? At the end of the same year, he published a speech on "Marxism is a Theory of Development", emphasizing that Marxism is a theory of development and Deng Xiaoping Theory is a great development of Marxist theory of socialist construction under Chinese conditions. Comrade Hu Sheng made important contributions to the elaboration and dissemination of Deng Xiaoping Theory in his later years. In 1998, the People's Publishing House published "Hu Sheng's Complete Book", which brought together his representative works from more than 60 years since 1935, and reflected the fruitful results of his research and writing in a concentrated manner. Comrade Hu Sheng's collection of old-style poems, "Hu Sheng Poetry", has also been updated and reprinted many times. In 1988 and 1993, Comrade Hu Sheng was elected as the vice chairperson of the Seventh and Eighth National Committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and was a member of the party group of the Seventh and Eighth National Committee of the Communist Party of China. He participated in leading the revision of the Constitution of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the Provisions of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference on Political Consultation, Democratic Supervision, and Participation in State Affairs, which promoted the standardization and institutionalization of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He actively participated in the leadership work of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in performing its functions, attached great importance to the advice and opinions of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and was good at working with people outside the Party. He made contributions to promoting the cause of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in the new era and consolidating and developing the multi-party cooperation and political consultation system led by the Communist Party of China. Comrade Hu Sheng is a representative of the Eighth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth National Congresses of the Communist Party of China, and a member of the Twelfth Central Committee; a representative of the First, Second, Third, Comrade Hu Sheng's life was a glorious life of tireless pursuit of truth and dedication to the cause of communism. He fought tirelessly for the victory of the new democratic revolution in our country, the development of the socialist revolution and the cause of socialist construction. No matter what difficulties and obstacles he encountered, he was firm and persistent, actively enterprising, and never slack off. He was young and wise, showed his talents, and was able to continue to work hard and work hard. Finally, he became a scholar and revolutionary with profound knowledge, outstanding achievements, and a high reputation at home and abroad. He made important contributions in propagating and expounding Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, and adhering to and applying Marxism to promote social science research. He dedicated his life's energy to the cause of the party. Comrade Hu Sheng's research and writing throughout his life always focused on combining with the needs of the times and the needs of the people, so he was able to move forward with the pace of the times. He loved reading and couldn't read the books, but he also paid attention to linking theory with practice, insisting on emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, thinking independently, and making innovations. His works are famous for their well-spoken, meticulous analysis, rigorous logic, and thorough reasoning. Comrade Hu Sheng is open-minded, gentle and generous, modest and cautious, approachable, honest and honest, and lives a simple life. In 1996, he donated a large number of his books to Xiangfan City Library in Hubei Province. In 1997, he donated the manuscript fees he had accumulated over the years to establish the "Hu Sheng Youth Academic Award Fund" to reward young scholars for their outstanding academic achievements.