On May 25, 1958, the Fifth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee was held in Huairen Hall, Zhongnanhai, Beijing. One of them was the founding father of the People's Republic of China, who once led the construction of the Red Army in western Fujian, guess who he was? Neither *** nor Zhang Dingcheng.
First of all, why is it being added this year? That's because of the expansion of the ** institution.
After the convening of the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 1956, our party elected a total of 17 members of the Politburo and 6 alternate members. At that time, in order to achieve the goals of the Second Five-Year Plan as soon as possible, a full-time Ministry of Rural Work was established on the basis of the original, and in this way, the office was rapidly expanded.
In 1958, in order to meet the needs of work under the new situation, the Fifth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held on May 25. On the same day, at the suggestion of ***, 3 people were co-opted as members of the Politburo, and in this way, the scale of the 8th Politburo was expanded to 20 people.
So, who are the three people who were added to the Fifth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee?
The first was Li Jingquan, the leader of the Nanchang Uprising, who served as secretary general of the Dongjiang Special Committee during the Great Revolution. During the Red Army, Li Jingquan was sent to the Dongjiang area to lead military work, but because of the "encirclement and suppression" of the Kuomintang reactionaries, he was transferred to work in the ** Soviet area and became the political commissar of the supplementary regiment of the Red 4th Army.
After the victory of the Red Army's Long March, Li Jingquan first served as the political commissar of the higher-level political department at the Red Army University, and then transferred to the Daqingshan area in 1938. At the most difficult moment of the Anti-Japanese War, he opened up the Daqingshan base area, trained and sent a large number of military and political cadres, and made great contributions to the final victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
Li Jingquan was elected as a member of the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and after the Fifth Plenary Session of the Central Committee, he was added as a member of the Politburo, after the first and others.
The second is Ke Qingshi, Ke Qingshi used to have a very high status, he was the first secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, was a member of the Politburo, the first secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and the secretary of the East China Bureau, and was the leader of the East China Bureau in the sixties. Ke Qingshi participated in the First Congress of the Communist International in the Far East, and he occupies an important place in the history of Anhui Province.
During the Great Revolution, Ke Qingshi participated in the establishment of the party organizations in Anqing and Wuhu, at that time, our party planned to organize a military violence movement in the southeast of Hubei Province, Ke Qingshi guided the uprising work as the secretary of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee, and led the creation of the Red Eighth Army, and finally became the director of the Political Department of the Red Eighth Army.
After 1931, Ke Qingshi successively worked in the Northern Bureau and Yan'an, during which he successively served as the vice president of the ** Party School, the mayor of Shijiazhuang City and the first secretary of the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee. For example, the land reform work in the Nanjing area was completed under his leadership.
Although Ke Qingshi made outstanding contributions in leading the revolutionary work, he still made serious mistakes in the later period because of the influence of the "anti-rightist" movement. After the Fifth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee, Ke Qingshi was elected as a member of the Politburo. On April 9, 1965, due to serious illness, he unfortunately died in Chengdu at the age of 63.
The last one is the Founding Father*** who ranks 20th among the members of the ** Politburo, so it is the third addition. Before the convening of the Fifth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee, he mainly served as the deputy secretary-general and the director of the second office, at that time, he was in charge of the pilot work of the people's commune, and was a key figure in China's implementation of agricultural cooperation.
**'s qualifications are very old, as early as the Jinggangshan period, he participated in the armed uprising and served as the secretary of the Chaling County Party Committee. In that year, he inspected Chaling, and he and He Tingying, Zeng Shi'e and others bravely captured Suichuan, Yongxin and other county seats, making important contributions to the expansion of the Jinggangshan base area.
After the establishment of the Red 1st Army, he was the political commissar of the Red 12th Army, and later, when the Western Fujian Soviet District was created, he served as a member of the Western Fujian Military and Political Committee and became one of the three heroes of Western Fujian.
He was the first to stand out among the founding fathers and was added as a member of the Politburo. Tao Zhu and *** were elected as members of the Politburo, and it was not until 1966 that they were a full 8 years later than ***. It is not difficult to understand why during the Liberation War, he was able to be ranked alongside **, Rao Shushi, and ** and became one of the general front committees of the Huaihai Campaign.