He was a great revolutionary who dedicated his life to the country and the people. Although he was prime minister, he never enjoyed privileges, but lived a simple life. His salary is only 400 per month8 yuan, and his wife Deng Yingchao's salary is 347$5. The combined savings of the two of them were only 5,100 yuan, which also included the subsidies they gave to relatives, friends and staff. ** I also often pay party dues, a total of 14,000 yuan.
He said: Our country is not yet rich, and we must maintain the tradition of arduous struggle and not be extravagant and wasteful. On January 8, 1976, ** died in Beijing, and the crowd spontaneously lined up for ten miles to see him off. What he left to posterity was his spiritual wealth, not material wealth.
However, in 1997, the Bank of China discovered a shocking secret. **There is a sum of 1 in the name£20,000 deposit, which has been in place for 30 years. Where did this money come from? It turned out that this was donated by a Chinese-British couple to ***, they were Liu Benkun and Liu Daorui. Liu Daorui, whose original name is Dolly, is a British girl who worked at the London branch of the Bank of China during World War II, where she met Liu Benkun, a Chinese employee who graduated from Tsinghua University. They fell in love, got married, and Dolly changed his Chinese name. They loved China and supported New China, they resisted the conspiracy of the Kuomintang and protected the foreign exchange of the Bank of China. They want to return to China, but Dolly's nationality issue is very troublesome, she wants to give up her British nationality and become a Chinese citizen, which requires the consent of the Chinese **. She contacted the Chinese embassy, got a certificate of naturalization, and she became a Chinese.
In 1967, they finally returned to China. They sold all their possessions, including the house, and the house was sold for 120,000 pounds, and they remitted the money to *** in the hope of making some contribution to the construction of socialism. He was very touched when he received their letters and money orders, but he said that the state could not collect personal deposits, and that it was necessary to find donors and return the money. However, the situation was unstable, and the matter dragged on, and finally, in the name of **, the money was deposited in the Bank of China. This survival is 30 years. After 30 years, this money plus interest has reached 467,000 yuan. The Bank of China approached Mr. and Mrs. Liu and asked them what they were going to do with the money. They are old and have a difficult life, but they resolutely do not want this money, they say, this is for ***, for the state. In the end, in accordance with Liu Daorui's wishes, the Bank of China established a ** meeting to reward the outstanding employees of the bank. Although Liu Daorui was born in the UK, her heart is Chinese, and like all Chinese, she loves the country.