On this day 51 years ago, on March 27, 1974 (March 4, 1974 lunar calendar), the leader of the Communist Party of China, Wang Ming, died of illness in Moscow. Wang Ming (Chen Shaoyu) On March 27, 1974, Wang Ming died of illness in Moscow. Wang Ming, formerly known as Chen Shaoyu. A native of Lu'an, Anhui Province. Born in 1904. Went to the Soviet Union to study in 1925. Joined the Communist Party of China in 1926. He served as the propaganda officer and secretary of the Communist Party of China Branch of Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow, and organized a small sectarian group. After returning to China in 1929, he served as the editor of the theoretical journal "Red Flag" of the Central Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China. In 1930, he published the pamphlet "Struggle for the More Bolshevism of the Communist Party of China". In January 1931, he was elected as a member of the Politburo and Standing Committee of He still promoted "left" adventurism through Bogu, which caused great losses to the Chinese revolutionary cause. He returned to China in November 1937 and served as the secretary of the Yangtze River Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, promoting the right-leaning capitulationist line of "everything passes through the united front and everything obeys the united front". After the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to abolish the Yangtze River Bureau in September 1939, he served as the director of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the chairperson of the Central Party Journal Committee. After 1941, he took a long rest due to illness. In 1945, he was elected to the Central Committee of the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wang Ming served as the deputy director of the Political and Legal Committee of the State Council. He went to the Soviet Union for medical treatment in