Dong Biwu

On March 5, 1886, Dong Biwu, formerly known as Dong Xiancong, also known as Dong Yongwei, with the word Jieshe, and the name Biwu. He was born in Huang'an (now Hong'an), Hubei Province. In 1903, he was admitted to the Hubei "Wen Ordinary" school. He graduated in 1910 and was awarded the title of tugong by the Qing Dynasty School. He later served as a teacher in Huangzhou. In 1911, he participated in the 1911 Revolution and joined the Chinese Tongmeng Association in the same year. In 1914, he was admitted to the "Private Japanese University" in Tokyo, Japan to study law, and joined the Chinese Revolutionary Party founded by Sun Yat-sen in Japan. In June 1915, he returned to China to engage in anti-Yuan activities and was arrested and imprisoned twice. After being released from prison in 1916, he went to Japan again. In 1918, he returned to China and participated in the law protection movement. In 1919, after participating in the "May 4th" movement in Shanghai, he founded In the autumn of 1920, a Communist group was established in Wuhan. In July 1921, he attended the first National Congress of the Communist Party of China and was a representative of the Wuhan group. Subsequently, he established and developed the party organization in Hubei Province, and served as a member of the Wuhan District Committee of the Communist Party of China, the director of the Hubei Democracy Department, and a member of the Hubei Provincial Committee. During the first Kuomintang-Communist cooperation, he led the preparation and establishment of the Kuomintang Hubei Provincial Party Department, and served as the director of the Kuomintang Working Committee of Hubei Province, and an alternate member of the Kuomintang Central Committee. In 1928, he went to study at Sun Yat-sen University and Lenin College in Moscow. After returning to China in 1932, he served as the president of the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China, the secretary of the Central Party Affairs Committee, the executive member of the Central Democratic Government of Workers and Peasants, the president of the Supreme Court, and the deputy During the Anti-Japanese War and after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he was one of the representatives of the Communist Party of China in negotiations with the Kuomintang. In 1945, he represented the Liberated Areas in the United Nations Constitutional Convention in San Francisco. He served as Deputy Secretary of the Southern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Secretary of the Chongqing Working Committee of the CPC Central Committee, Minister of Finance and Economics, Secretary of the North China Bureau, and Chairperson of the North China People's Government.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as Director of the Central Financial and Economic Commission, Vice Premier of the Administrative Affairs Council, Director of the Political and Legal Committee of the Administrative Affairs Council, President of the Supreme People's Court, Vice Chairperson of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Secretary of the Central Supervision Commission of the Communist Party of China, Vice Chairperson and Acting Chairperson of the People's Republic of China. He has served as Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the Fourth National People's Congress since January 1975. He is a member of the 6th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, a member of the Politburo of the 7th,

Published "Dong Biwu Selected Works", "Dong Biwu Political and Legal Works", "Dong Biwu Selected Poems", "Dong Biwu Chronology". Died in Beijing on April 2, 1975, at the age of 90.

Comrade Dong Biwu