Qin Bangxian (1907-1946)

One of the leaders of the Communist Party of China in the early period; proletarian revolutionary, theorist, propagandist and social activist. Also known as Bo Gu, pen name Ze Min, Chang Lin, native of Wuxi County, Jiangsu Province. He joined the CPC in October 1925 and was elected chairman of the Suzhou Industrial School Student Union in 1925. Then he entered Shanghai University. In 1925, he served as a Publicity officer of the Shanghai Municipal Party Department of the KMT. In 1926, he went to the Moscow Sun Yat-sen University to study. Returning to China in May 1930, he served as administrator of the Publicity  Department of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions and edited papers such as Labor News. In January 1931, he served as head of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League. From April to October 1931, he served as secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League. From September 1931 to January 1934, he served as member of the Political Bureau and member of the Standing Committee of the Provisional Central Committee of the CPC. From September 1931 to January 1935, he was in charge of the work of the CPC Central Committee. In 1933, when the Provisional Central Committee entered the Central Revolutionary Base Area, he became member of the CCP Central Revolutionary Military Commission of the Chinese Soviet Republic in May. In January 1934, he was elected member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee at the Fifth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the CPC. From January 1934 to 1945, he served as member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. From January 1934 to March 1943, he served as secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee. In February 1934, he was elected member of the Second Central Executive Committee of the Chinese Soviet Republic and member of the Bureau of the Central Executive Committee and participated in the Long March. Following the Zunyi Conference, in February 1935, he was removed from the top leadership post of the CPC Central Committee, and later served as director of the Political Department of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army’s Field Forces, director of the General Political Department of the Military Commission, chairman of the Northwest Office of the Central Government of the Soviet People's Republic of China, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Northwest Office. From winter 1936 to December 1937, he served as head of Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee. In December 1936, as one of the representatives of the Communist Party of China, he participated in the negotiation of a peaceful settlement of the Xi'an Incident. After the outbreak of the Full-Scale Anti-Japanese War, he joined the delegation of the Communist Party of China, negotiated and cooperated with the KMT in resisting Japan together with Zhou Enlai, and served as representative of the CPC in Nanjing. Since 1938, he has been a member of the Yangtze River Bureau and Southern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the head of the Organization Department. In the same year, he became the first member of the National Political Council and the director of the Eighth Route Army office in Chongqing. He served as Acting Secretary of the Southern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee from June 1939 to May 1940. In 1941, he served as head and chief writer of Liberation Daily. In February 1946, as a member of the Communist Party of China delegation, he went to Chongqing to participate in the negotiations with the KMT. On April 8, 1946, he was killed together with Wang Ruofei, Ye Ting and Deng Fa in Heicha Mountain, Xing County, Shanxi Province, on their way back to Yan'an due to an airplane crash.