In 1895, Yan Baohang was born in a small village in Haicheng County, Liaoning Province, and his father named him Baohang, the word Yuheng.
When he was 18 years old, Yan Baohang was admitted to the highest university in the three eastern provinces at that time - Fengtian two-level normal school. In school, Yan Baohang actively participated in various social activities held inside and outside the school, and soon became the backbone of the school's activities.
After graduating from the Normal School, with the help of the Shenyang ** Teaching Youth Association, in April 1918, he founded a "Fengtian School for Poor Children". The children who came to school here were not only free of tuition, but also provided with books and stationery, and for a while, Yan Baohang's social influence gradually increased. During the period, he was supported by Cheng Yanqiu, Zhang Xueliang, Guo Songling and others.
In the process of running the school, Yan Baohang has accumulated rich experience and contacts in social activities. In 1921, he became the practice officer of the student department of the Fengtian Youth Association, and during this position, he came into contact with Marxism in his contacts with patriotic youth, and began to think more deeply about the correct way to save the country and the people.
In June 1925, Yan Baohang organized more than 20,000 students in Shenyang to hold a huge demonstration in solidarity"Five"Motion.
After that, Yan Baohang was appointed by the Fengtian Youth Association to study in the United Kingdom, and graduated from the Graduate School of the University of Edinburgh in 1929.
In the spring of 1929, Yan Baohang returned to China after completing his trip to Britain. It has successively established the Liaoning Provincial National Diplomatic Association and other associations.
At the end of October 1929, Yan Baohang attended the Pacific International Exchange Conference, and with the support of Zhang Xueliang, he made public the English translation of "Tanaka Sonata Fold" obtained at the conference, becoming the first person to expose the ambition of Japanese imperialism to invade China to the world.
9.18"After the incident, the Japanese offered a reward of 50,000 oceans to take down Yan Baohang's head, and after Yan Baohang learned the news, he pretended to be a priest and escaped from Mukden City.
He joined forces with Gao Chongmin to launch the organization on September 27"Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Salvation Congress", Yan Baohang served as a member of the Standing Committee and Minister of Political Affairs, campaigned for the anti-Japanese salvation, and raised money and clothing to help the Northeast Volunteers resist Japan.
His outstanding organizational skills and communicative skills were appreciated by Soong Meiling and Chiang Kai-shek, and were co-founded by Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Xueliang"Four-Dimensional Society", advocated by Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling"New Life Movement"to hold key positions.
Appointed by Chiang Kai-shek, he served as the chairman of the Military Commission and the member of the design committee of the Political Department of the Military Commission. On the eve of the Xi'an Incident, he faced Zhang Xueliang and Chen Lian's anti-Japanese proposal.
After the Xi'an Incident, on New Year's Day in 1937, when Yan Baohang was discussing with the generals of the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army in Xi'an how to rescue Zhang Xueliang, he met for the first time in a conversation, and Yan Baohang was moved by his conversation and cultivation.
With the increase in contact with ***, Yan Baohang put forward the idea of wanting to join the Communist Party.
** Desperately hoped that the party could absorb a capable and thoughtful party member like Yan Baohang, but the Comintern believed that Yan Baohang held an important position in the Kuomintang and his position was not firm, so it resolutely opposed his joining the party.
Later, ** directly came to a "curve to save the country", and he was the introducer, giving Yan Baohang the identity of a secret ** member.
In April 1937, Yan Baohang and others were established in Baxian Bridge in Shanghai"Northeast Anti-Japanese Salvation Association", was elected as a standing committee member, under the leadership of the Northern Bureau of the Communist Party of China. In September of the same year, he joined the Communist Party of China.
In 1941, he participated in the organization of the Chinese Democratic Revolutionary League. In 1945, he joined the China Democratic Construction Association. He initiated the establishment of the Northeast Political Construction Association and served as the chairman.
With his good interpersonal relationships with friends and friends, he won the favor of Kuomintang veterans Yu Youren, Sun Ke, Song Qingling, He Xiangning, Shao Lizi, and Feng Yuxiang, and often maneuvered between Chen Cheng, Song Ziwen, Chen Lifu, Dai Li, Xu Enzeng, and other important members of the party, government, military, and intelligence.
He obtained three major international strategic intelligences, including Germany's blitzkrieg attack on the Soviet Union, Japan's surprise attack on the US military base at Pearl Harbor, and Japan's Kwantung Army's fortification deployment in northeast China, which he collected and secretly stored by the Kuomintang military intelligence department, and successively supplied it to the wartime allies, the Soviet Union and the United States.
In 1995, the Russian Embassy in China held a special ceremony to confer the award. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the victory in the anti-fascist war, with the authorization of Yeltsin, Russian Ambassador to China Rogachev Roggel presented the "Medal for the 50th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War" to the late Yan Baohang and the surviving members of the intelligence group led by him, Yan Mingshi and Li Zhengwen.
During the Anti-Japanese War, his family moved from Beiping to Nanjing, then to Wuhan and Chongqing, and has always been a refuge for exiled students, refugees and revolutionaries.
Yan Baohang's wife, Gao Su, is this family"Guest house"of"Director"Both"Cook"。Over time, Yan Mansion was known as"Yan's old store"。**Praise Gao Su (Gao Su Tong) many times"It is our good sister-in-law and a good mother of the revolution"。
On June 23, 1946, Yan Baohang was elected as a member of the Shanghai People's Peace League and went to Nanjing to appeal for peace. In the same year, he served as a member of the Northeast Administrative Committee and chairman of the People's ** of Liaobei Province (now Shuangliao, Jilin).
In May 1949, he was transferred to the deputy secretary-general of the Preparatory Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) to assist in the preparation of the CPPCC meeting. Attended the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He served as a director and deputy director general of the Sino-Soviet Friendship Association, and later served as the director of the Russian School of the Sino-Soviet Friendship Association.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yan Baohang successively served as deputy director of the General Office, director of the Treaty Committee, member of the Standing Committee of the Fourth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and executive director of the National Political and Legal Society.
Yan Baohang has made great contributions to the revolutionary cause, and for a long time, Yan Baohang has only been regarded as a patriot outside the party, because when he joined the party, he was a "secret party member" approved by ***, and he was not included in any organizational relationship.
In 1952, with the consent of ***, Yan Baohang announced his party membership in ***'s system. Yan Baohang didn't say anything about his contribution to the Anti-Japanese War, and his family didn't know about it at all.
In 1955, he accompanied *** to meet Arab foreign guests. (The back right is Yan Baohang).
In 1959, at the first meeting of the third session of the CPPCC, he called on everyone to write historical materials of their personal experience, and he specially transferred Yan Baohang to the CPPCC to serve as a full-time member of the Standing Committee. Yan Baohang resigned from his job and devoted himself to the collection and sorting of cultural and historical materials in Northeast China.
to"***"On the eve, he collected nearly 2,000 pieces of literary and historical materials, with more than 1,500 words.
In May 1966, Qin Cheng, a librarian at the Dalian Museum of Culture and History and a former staff officer of a major general of the Kuomintang, was arrested and forced to admit that he had plotted against Lu Zhengcao, Zhang Xuesi, Gao Chongmin, Yan Baohang and others in Harbin in November 1946, and Yan Baohang and others accepted the rebellion.
From June to July 1967, Xie Fang, Lu Zhengcao, Jia Tao and his wife, Zhang Xuesi and others successively **.
Then, Kang Sheng and others branded a large number of veteran comrades in the northeast who had been engaged in underground work in the white area for a long time under the leadership of the party as traitors and spies, concocted the "Northeast Rebel Party Group", and immediately set up a special task force.
The task force went so far as to take the articles published by Yan Baohang and others in party newspapers such as "Northeast Liberation" to commemorate the "Double 12th" and demand the release of Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng as evidence of "betraying the party and joining the enemy."
**After learning about this, he personally made a comment: "This person is confused".
On the evening of November 7, 1967, Yan Baohang, who had just returned home from work at the CPPCC organ, was taken away by several people in yellow coats and thrown into prison for the crime of being a spy.
This was only the beginning of the catastrophe of the "Yan family's old store".
Half a month later, Yan Baohang's youngest son, who was the head of the Russian translation team in the ** General Office
Blows followed.
The eldest son, Yan Daxin, was revoked from the military and sent to Helan MountainThe second son, Yan Mingming, was isolated and censored and died tragically in Changsha;The second daughter, Yan Mingying, and the third daughter, Yan Mingguang, were both decentralized, and Yan Mingguang's husband was imprisoned.
At that time, my mother not only endured the huge mental pressure and pain of my father and me being imprisoned, and my eldest brother and second brother being isolated and examined, but also had no stability in life. "* Painfully recalled.
In 1971, Gao Su died of lung cancer. Shortly before his death, Gao Su dictated a letter to the prime minister: "I always believe that Yuheng (Yan Baohang's character) and Ming Fu are innocent. After I became seriously ill and arrived in Shanghai, the rescue expenses were very huge, and the lover of the little girl Mingguang was imprisoned, her salary was frozen, and she could not afford to pay. Please ask the prime minister to solve my medical debts and future affairs in the face of me and Yuheng selling clothes in Chongqing to help party comrades and anti-Japanese villagers. ”
It didn't take long for this ordinary letter with a 4-cent stamp to get the Prime Minister's instructions: Gao Su's life was not easy, he was meritorious, and Gao Su's ** expenses and funeral expenses were reimbursed.
After being released from prison, *** learned that he and his father were once in the same prison. In the Qincheng Prison, where the names of prisoners were reduced to numbers, Yan Baohang's code name was 67100, and the ** code name was 67124, with only 23 people in between.
On May 22, 1968, the seventy-year-old number 67100"Prisoners", was kicked to the ground during the interrogation, unconscious, and after being sent to Fuxing Hospital, no one paid attention to him, and he died unjustly at the age of 73. The prison's approval reads:"Counter-revolutionary convict No. 67100, no ashes shall be kept. "
In this way, the mother's ashes are placed in the father's urn and buried together. The third daughter, Yan Mingguang, said.
After the end of the Cultural Revolution, Yan Baohang was rehabilitated.
On January 5, 1978, the interment ceremony of Yan Baohang's ashes was held at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing. ** Gave a eulogy and spoke highly of Yan Baohang's life.
In 2007, the TV series "Unknown Heroes" produced by ** TV station was put on the screen, eulogizing the great achievements of Yan Baohang, a spy hero, and spreading his glorious deeds to thousands of households.
But it's too late.