On this day 31 years ago, on February 5, 1994 (December 25, 1993 lunar calendar), Qian Zhiguang, the main founder of the modern textile industry in New China, passed away. On February 5, 1994, like Comrade Qian Zhiguang, the main founder of the modern textile industry in New China, passed away in Beijing at the age of 94. Comrade Qian Zhiguang was a native of Zhuji, Zhejiang. In the early days of the Great Revolution, under the guidance of Zhang Qiuren, founder of the Communist Party of Zhejiang, Xuanzhonghua, etc., he actively engaged in revolutionary activities. In February 1927, he joined the Communist Party of China. During the revolutionary war years, he went through hardships, risked his life and died, and fought tenaciously; during the socialist revolution and socialist construction, he worked hard, dedicated himself, selfless and fearless, unswervingly loyal to the party and the people, and dedicated his life's energy and dedication to the cause of proletarian revolution. After the failure of the great revolution, under the white terror, he persisted in the underground struggle, and was in charge of the work of the secret printing factory of the Party Central Committee in Shanghai, printing and distributing the party's newspapers and periodicals, and propagating the party's program. In the summer of 1933, he joined the Central Soviet Area and served as a member of the National Economic Commission of the Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Union and director of the General Administration of Trade. He relied on and organized the masses, despite difficulties and obstacles, broke the heavy blockade of the Kuomintang reactionaries, and brought in salt, medicine, cloth and other materials urgently needed by the military and civilians of the Soviet area for battle and life from Bai District to ensure the needs of the anti-encirclement and suppression struggle. In 1934, he participated in the 25,000-mile Long March and served as the head of the Central Committee for Expropriation, Distribution and Confiscation. Under extremely difficult circumstances, he carefully raised materials. After arriving in northern Shaanxi, he served as the director of the General Administration of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of National Economy of the Soviet Government of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. In February 1936, he was ordered to go to Luochuan with Li Kenong to hold talks with Zhang Xueliang and Wang Yizhe, and reached an agreement on major issues such as mutual non-aggression, each guarding the original defense, restoring road traffic in the county (now Fu County), Ganquan and Fushi (now Yan'an), and trade between the Soviet District and the Bai District. In the spring of 1937, he went to Xi'an, Taiyuan and other places to purchase military supplies and grain, and did a lot of work for the supply of materials in the northern Shaanxi base area. During the Anti-Japanese War, Comrade Qian Zhiguang successively served as the director of the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army in Wuhan and Nanjing, and the Eighteenth Group Army in Chongqing. In 1944, he served as a member of the Chongqing Working Committee of the Communist Party of China. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, he served as a member of the Southern Bureau of the Communist Party of China (later referred to as the Chongqing Bureau), a member of the Nanjing Bureau of the Communist Party of China and a deputy secretary of the Finance Committee, and the director of the general office of the Nanjing Communist Party Delegation. Under the direct leadership of Comrade Zhou Enlai and Dong Biwu, he made fruitful efforts to develop a united front, unite progressive forces, wage tit-for-tat struggles with the Kuomintang authorities, send military supplies and revolutionary cadres to the liberated areas, and strengthen ties with overseas Chinese, in order to win the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. During the Liberation War, he was sent by the Party Central Committee to Hong Kong to engage in economic work, founded China Resources Corporation and served as chairperson, and During this period, he was instructed by the Central Committee to secretly transport a group of famous democratic parties and patriots who were retained in Hong Kong, such as Li Jishen, Shen Junru, Huang Yanpei, and Guo Moruo, to the Liberated Areas to participate in the preparation of the new political consultation conference led by our party, which made positive contributions to the establishment of New China. After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, he served as a member of the Finance and Economics Committee of the State Council, participated in leading the economic recovery of New China, and served as Vice Minister and Party Secretary of the Ministry of Textile Industry. In 1970, the Ministry of Textile, First Light and Second Light were merged to form the Ministry of Light Industry. He served as Minister and Party Secretary. In 1978, after the Textile and Light Industry Division, he served as Minister of the Ministry of Textile Industry and Party Secretary. In 1981, Comrade Qian Zhiguang has made significant contributions on the economic front of our country and is one of the main leaders of the textile industry in New China. During the 32 years he presided over the work of the Ministry of Textile Industry, he always adhered to the implementation of the policy of independence, self-reliance, hard work, and thrift to build the country. Soon established the textile machinery manufacturing system of New China, timely met the needs of large-scale construction, and made our country's cotton, wool, hemp, silk and other textile industries develop in an all-round way. In order to overcome the contradiction between grain and cotton competing for land and solve the clothing problem of more than 1 billion people, he put forward the policy of developing natural fibers and chemical fibers at the same time, introduced foreign advanced technologies, and built large-scale chemical fiber production bases such as Shanghai Jinshan, Liaoning Liaoyang, Tianjin, Sichuan Changshou and Jiangsu Yizheng, making our country one of the world's chemical fiber industrial powers. He paid attention to technological progress, respected science, attached importance to education, cherished talents, cared for cadres, and paid attention to absorbing foreign advanced technology and production management experience, so that the production construction and scientific and technological education of the textile industry have been significantly developed, and a complete textile industry system has been established. He is the main founder of the modern textile industry in New China. Qian Zhiguang is a delegate to the Eighth to Twelfth National Congresses of the Communist Party of China, a special delegate to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth National Congresses of the Party. He is also a delegate to the Second and Third National People's Congress.