62 years ago today, on December 16, 1963 (November 1, 1963 in the lunar calendar), Marshal Luo Ronghuan passed away. Marshal Luo Ronghuan On December 16, 1963, Comrade Luo Ronghuan, Marshal of the People's Republic of China, passed away in Beijing. Luo Ronghuan was originally named Shenzhen. Born in 1902. A native of Hengshan, Hunan (now Hengdong). In 1927, he joined the Communist Youth League of China and transferred to the Communist Party of China in the same year. In July of the same year, he was sent to Nantong City of Hubei to engage in the peasant movement and participate in the organization of peasant armed forces. Since 1930, he has served as political commissar of the Fourth Army of China Workers and Peasants 'Red Army, and director of the Political Department of the First Corps, Jiangxi Military Region, and Eighth Corps. Participated in the Long March in October 1934. After arriving in northern Shaanxi, he served as political commissar of the First Section of the Red Army University, director of the Political Department of the Red Army's rear area, director of the Political Department of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army during the Anti-Japanese War, division political commissar, acting division commander, commander and political commissar of the Shandong Military Region. During the War of Liberation, he served as deputy political commissar of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army, political commissar of the Northeast People's Liberation Army, and first political commissar of the Fourth Field Army. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served successively as Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme People's Procuratorate of the Central People's Government, Vice Chairman of the People's Revolutionary Military Commission, Director of the General Political Department and Minister of the General Cadre Management Department of the People's Liberation Army, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, Vice Chairman of the National Defense Commission, President of the Political College of the People's Liberation Army, and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of Marshal. He was elected as a member of the Central Committee at the Seventh and Eighth National Congresses of the Communist Party of China, and was elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee at the First Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. During the War of Liberation, Luo Ronghuan (right), Lin Biao (center) and Liu Yalou (left) were on the front line. Mao Zedong bid farewell to Luo Ronghuan's body