On this day 54 years ago, on February 24, 1971 (January 29, 1971 lunar calendar), Zhou Enlai exposed Chen Boda's crimes. Zhou Enlai On February 24, 1971, Zhou Enlai delivered an important speech at the North China Conference on behalf of the Party Central Committee, systematically exposing Chen Boda's crimes and announcing the decision on the reorganization of the Beijing Military Region. Chen Boda Chen Boda (1904~ 1989) A native of Huian, Fujian. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1927. He went to study at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow in the same year. After returning to China in 1930, he taught at the Chinese University in Beiping, the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Yan'an, and the Marxist-Leninist College, and worked in the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Military Commission, the Central Secretariat, and the Central During this period, he wrote political treatises such as "The Four Great Families of China", "The Thief Yuan Shikai", and "The Enemy of the People Chiang Kai-shek", and became one of the influential theoretical propagandists within the Communist Party of China. In 1945, he was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee at the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China. He was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee of the Central Committee at the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee. After the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he was elected as an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. He served as Vice Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Editor-in-Chief of the magazine "Red Flag", a publication of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China He actively participated in the conspiracy activities of Lin Biao and Jiang Qing to seize the highest power of the party and the state. He was expelled from the party at the 10th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 1973. He was arrested in September 1976. As one of the principal criminals of Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary group, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison by the special court of the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China on January 25, 1981. He died in Beijing on September 22, 1989.