On this day, 70 years ago, on March 15, 1955 (February 22, 1955, the lunar calendar), former senior Kuomintang general Wei Lihuang returned to the mainland of the motherland. Wei Lihuang, also known as Huishan. Born in Hefei, Anhui Province, he was born in January 1887 (the twelfth year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty). In 1925, he served as commander of the 8th Brigade of the 4th Division of the Guangdong Army during the Eastern Revolutionary Expedition. Later, he served as commander of the 9th Regiment of the 3rd Division of the 1st Army of the National Revolutionary Army. When the Northern Expedition Army arrived in Xuzhou, he was promoted to commander of the 14th Division. After the establishment of the Nanjing National Government in 1927, he served as deputy commander of the Nanjing Garrison. In 1929, he served as commander of the 45th Division of the Kuomintang Army. Since 1931, he has served as commander of the 14th Army. Under the command of Chiang Kai-shek, he led his troops to attack the Hubei-Henan-Anhui revolutionary base areas and was praised by the Nanjing National Government. In the 1933 Fujian Incident, he was then the fifth commander-in-chief of the encirclement and suppression army. In 1935, he was elected as an executive member of the Kuomintang Central Committee. During the Xi'an Incident, he was detained in Xi'an as the commander-in-chief of the suppression of the Communist Party in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Suining Border Region. In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, he successively served as deputy commander of the Second World War Area, commander of the First Theater Area, and chairman of the Henan Province Government. He was removed from office by Chiang Kai-shek in 1942. In 1943, he served as commander of the Expeditionary Force in Myanmar. In 1948, he served as commander-in-chief of the "suppression of bandits" in Northeast China. On the eve of the liberation of Shenyang, he fled to Nanjing, was placed under house arrest by Chiang, and was released in 1949 to Hong Kong. On March 15, 1955, Wei Lihuang left Hong Kong for Guangzhou, where he published "Letter to Taiwanese Comrades" and later went to Beijing. He successively served as a standing member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a representative of the Second National People's Congress, vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, and a standing member of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee. He died of illness in Beijing on February 17, 1960.