On this day 46 years ago, on September 25, 1979 (August 5, 1979 in the lunar calendar), writer Zhou Libo passed away. On September 25, 1979, Zhou Libo, a deputy to the First, Second and Third National People's Congress, a member of the Fifth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a member of the Third National Committee of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and a member of the Chinese Writers Association, died in Beijing due to long-term treatment. He was 71 years old. Zhou Libo, formerly known as Zhou Shaoyi, also known as Fengxiang, was born on August 9, 1908, from Yiyang, Hunan. Modern writer, graduated from Changsha Provincial No. 1 Middle School in Hunan in 1927. In 1929, he entered the Department of Economics, Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai Labor University. In 1930, he joined the League of Left-wing Dramatists. In 1932, he was arrested for participating in a strike. After being released from prison in 1934, he joined Joined the Communist Party of China in 1935. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as a North China frontline reporter for the Eighth Route Army in Xi'an. He wrote reportage works such as "Impressions of the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region". In 1938, he edited the "Anti-Japanese War Daily". In 1939, he edited the "National Salvation Daily". At the end of the same year, he taught at the Yan'an Lu Xun Art Institute and participated in the Yan'an Literature and Art Symposium. Later, he edited the supplement of the "Liberation Daily". During the Liberation War, he served as the English translator of the CCP delegation of the Executive Department of the Military Mediation Office. Later, he went to Northeast China to participate in land reform and wrote the novel "Storm and Rain". This novel won the third prize of the Stalin Literary General and was elected as a member of the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles After the founding of New China, he served as a deputy to the First, Second, and Third National People's Congress, a director of the Chinese Writers Association, the chairperson of the Hunan Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and a member of the Fifth National Political Consultative Committee. His books include "Great Changes in Mountains and Villages", "Iron Water Flowing", "Collecting Dust in Thousand Miles", and "Selected Works of Zhou Libo".