51 years ago today, on November 19, 1974 (October 6, 1974 lunar calendar), Zhang Yunyi passed away. On November 19, 1974, Zhang Yunyi, a member of the National Defense Commission, died in Beijing due to ineffective medical treatment at the age of 82. Zhang Yunyi, a native of Wenchang County, Guangdong Province, joined the Communist Party of China in 1926, and led an armed uprising in Youjiang, Guangxi in 1929 to join the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army. During the Red Army period, he successively served as the chief of the Seventh Army of the Red Army, the deputy chief of staff of the Central Military Commission, and the commander of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Military Region. During the Anti-Japanese War, he successively served as the chief of staff of the New Fourth Army, the commander of the Jiangbei Command of the New Fourth Army, and the deputy chief of the New Fourth Army. During the Liberation War, he successively served as the deputy commander of the East China Military Region, the commander of the Shandong Military Region, the member of the Central China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and the member After the national liberation, he served as Secretary of the Guangxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Chairperson of the Guangxi Provincial People's Government, Commander and Political Commissar of the Guangxi Military Region, Member of the Central South Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Second Secretary of the South China Branch of the Central Committee of the CPC Central Committee, Vice Chairperson of the Central South Administrative Commission, and Deputy Secretary of the Central Supervision Commission of the CPC. Zhang Yunyi served as a member of the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Central Committees of the Communist Party of China, and a member of the Standing Committee of the First and Second National People's Congress.