Political affairs learned from the family that Comrade Zhou Erliu, a consultant of the *** Research Center of Nankai University and a retired cadre, died at 11:50 on December 6, 2023 at the age of 94 in Shanghai East China Hospital due to ineffective medical treatment.
Zhou Erliu (data map).
Zhou Erliu is the cousin of ***, born in Shanghai in 1929, and is the eldest grandson of the Zhou family.
According to a report by "Tonight" in November this year, Zhou Erliu was born shortly after his mother died of illness, and he was raised by his grandmother. Later, his father Zhou Enqi remarried, and his grandmother returned to his hometown. A few years later, his father and stepmother left Shanghai one after another, leaving Zhou Erliu to study in middle school alone. In his memory, his father loved Peking Opera and had a close relationship with Mei Lanfang. Judging from the ** left at home, her mother is beautiful and an intellectual woman with cultural upbringing. She graduated from Datong University in Shanghai and was married to her father, Zhou Enqi, in free love. Zhou Erliu was very sorry for his mother's early death;If his mother hadn't died prematurely, he wouldn't have been so lonely. At that time, the teenager lived a wandering life. It wasn't until 1946 that he was found and asked to go to Shanghai to meet.
Since he was a child, Zhou Erliu has called Deng Yingchao "Seventh Dad" and "Seventh Mother" according to the instructions of his elders, and he came to the residence of Seventh Father and Seventh Mother in Shanghai excitedly. I haven't seen each other for years, and everyone is happy. Zhou Erliu was very popular with seven fathers and seven mothers when he was a child. They have no children, so they regard "Aibao" (Zhou Erliu's milk name) as their own children. This time, I found him and decided to raise this nephew, whose mother had died and whose father's whereabouts were unknown. Zhou Erliu told his seventh father that he wanted to study at the free National Senior Agricultural Vocational High School. ** agreed, gave him a living allowance and let him buy some clothes.
In 1949, Zhou Erliu signed up for the army after graduating from vocational high school and entered the Military and Political University of the Second Field Army in Nanjing. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the Prime Minister of the Government Council. Zhou Erliu respected his seventh father even more, but did not reveal his relationship with the prime minister to anyone. The uncle and nephew kept in touch by letter.
In 1954, Zhou Erliu took the college entrance examination and was admitted to Nankai University with the first overall score in the southwest region. **I was very happy to learn that Nankai is also his alma mater.
In Nankai, Zhou Erliu is low-key, and few people know about his relationship with ***.
In October 1960, when Zhou Erliu and Wang Zhangli got engaged in Beijing, ** was unable to attend due to busy work. They took a group photo with Deng Yingchao at their home in the West Flower Hall. Afterwards, ** said to Zhou Erliu: "Now is a difficult time. When you get married in the future, I don't approve of a ceremony and you don't have to buy sweets. When the time comes, I'll give you a jar of peanuts as a wedding gift. Zhou Erliu understood at that time that the words of the seventh father were to educate the younger generations to share weal and woe with the masses.
In October 1960, Zhou Erliu and Wang Zhangli took a group photo with Deng Yingchao in the West Flower Hall when they got engaged.
In 1961, Zhou Erliu graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages of Nankai University and went to Beijing to work.
In the early days of reform and opening up, Zhou Erliu and his wife were both sent to work at the Chinese Embassy in the UK. Later, he served as the director of the China Social Development Research Center, the vice president of Peking University, the cultural counselor of the Chinese Embassy in the United Kingdom, the consultant of the Research Center of Nankai University, a professor at the School of Economics, and the director of the International Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee and the Foreign Cultural Affairs Commission. He retired in December 1994.
In 2015, Zhou Erliu's book "My Seventh Dad*** was published by ** Literature Publishing House.
In this book, Zhou Erliu recalled many conversations with Seventh Dad*** and Seventh Mother Deng Yingchao in the West Flower Hall of Zhongnanhai. In September of that year, Zhou Erliu said in an exclusive interview with political affairs, people rarely know the relationship between me and ***. ** Will teach him how to deal with complex situations, give him detailed work guidance, and will also test his English and other homework.
Source**: Tonight News, etc.