Chen Yuandao’s personal introduction

Born into a poor peasant family. He entered a private school when he was young. Entered Longhua Primary School in 1916. In 1919, he was admitted to the Second Class A Agricultural School of Anhui Province in Wuhu. While in school, he joined the Wuhu Student Federation. Under the direct influence and education of Yun Daiying, Xiao Chunv and others, he read a lot of progressive books and periodicals such as "New Youth" and "Guide", and participated in the Wuhu Marxism Research Association. In June 1921, during the "June 2nd" student unrest in Anqing, he initiated and organized students from various schools in Wuhu to establish the "June 2nd" tragedy support association, held a memorial meeting for more than 2,000 people, held a public memorial for the murdered students, and supported the Anqing student movement. In March 1922, the Wuhu Student Federation was launched to support the Wuhu rickshaw workers in their strike struggle. In April, a patriotic movement to boycott Japanese goods was launched. In the summer of 1923, he joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League. Together with Xue Zhuohan and others, he founded the "Civilian Night School", "Workers' Literacy Class" and "School for Workers' Children", and led and supported the strike struggle of Wuhu sawmilling and painting workers demanding an increase in wages. Joined the Communist Party of China in 1925. He led and mobilized the organization of the "Wuhu All walks of life's May 30th Massacre Support Association", launched demonstrations in response to the May 30th Movement in Shanghai, and supported the Shanghai workers' strike struggle. In June of the same year, as a representative of the Anhui Provincial Federation of Students, he attended the 7th Congress of the National Federation of Students held by the Youth League Central Committee in Shanghai. In the autumn of 1925, he was dispatched by the party organization to study Marxist-Leninist political theory at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow, the Soviet Union. After graduation, he stayed at the school to teach and also worked as a Russian translator. Returning to China in the spring of 1929, he served as Secretary-General of the Propaganda Department of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. His public identity was that of a professor at Shanghai Nanyang University, and he actively assisted Minister Ren Bishi in carrying out the party's propaganda and cultural work. Around 1930, he successively served as director of the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and director of the Propaganda Department of the Henan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. Dare to adhere to principles and truth. He has resolutely opposed Wang Ming's "Left" line at many party working meetings, and wrote to the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Communist International, disagreeing with the call for all-out Henan. The province immediately held a political general strike and soldiers rioted, and was accordingly attacked and punished. In January 1931, he was by-elected as a provisional member of the Central Committee at the Fourth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Appointed by the Party Central Committee, he formed a three-person delegation headed by him, He Chang, and Xu Lanzhi, and went to Tianjin to solve the problem of the Northern Bureau, completely smashing Zhang Jinren, Han Lin and others' conspiracy to split the Northern Party. Soon, the new Shunzhi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China was established, and he was appointed as the director of the Organization Department, actually taking full responsibility. At this time, he married Liu Yaxiong and used his father-in-law Liu Shaobai's "Liu Mansion" as a temporary liaison station with the provincial party committee to actively restore and rectify the party organization. In April, the Hebei Provincial Party Committee was destroyed by the enemy. He was arrested by the enemy and imprisoned in the Northeast Military Justice Department in Beiping. In September, he was released to Caolanzi Prison. While in prison, he participated in organizing a secret party branch and launched a struggle against the enemy. He was unyielding and strictly kept secrets. After the September 18th Incident, he was released from prison and continued to work in the Hebei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, guiding peasant riots in Ci County and other places. Soon, he was appointed as a member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, director and party secretary of the Shanghai Workers' Federation, leading the labor movement. On January 7, 1933, the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions organized an anti-hunger and anti-unemployment demonstration. The commander-in-chief of the demonstration was arrested and rebelled. He gave his address. Unfortunately, he was arrested and imprisoned at the Nanjing Kuomintang Military Police Headquarters. In prison, his enemies threatened and lured him with high-ranking officials and generous salaries, but he was always upright and unyielding. In the early morning of April 10, 1933, he died generously in Yuhuatai, Nanjing.