Zhu Li’s character profile

Zhu Li (1920～1995) was born in Beiya Village, Nansan Town, Potou District. A member of the Communist Party of China in 1938, he was the backbone of the first overseas Chinese rescue team in Guangzhou Bay to return to China to fight against Japan. On July 7, 1937, the Anti-Japanese War broke out. The people of Guangzhou Bay (the predecessor of Zhanjiang City), which has a glorious anti-imperialist tradition, quickly launched an anti-Japanese and national salvation craze. 17-year-old Zhu Li was studying at Yizhi Middle School in Xiying (now Xiashan), and devoted himself to anti-Japanese and national salvation activities with patriotic passion. He wrote and posted anti-Japanese slogans, published anti-Japanese wall newspapers, organized the masses to sing patriotic songs, mobilized donations from all walks of life to support the front line, and worked day and night for anti-Japanese propaganda. At that time, the Guangzhou Bay Chamber of Commerce established the "Guangzhou Bay Disaster Relief Association", a mass group for anti-Japanese and national salvation, and mobilized people from all walks of life to donate money and materials to support the frontline war of resistance. It also organized the first rescue team to directly participate in battlefield service. Zhu Li resolutely signed up to join the rescue team. While he was studying battlefield rescue knowledge and waiting to go to the front line, he actively carried out anti-Japanese propaganda to the masses, carefully studied and mastered rescue techniques, and was an active member and backbone of the rescue team.

In July 1938, Zhu Li and a group of 14 rescue team members were among the first batch to leave Guangzhou Bay by boat and transferred to Hong Kong to Guangzhou to participate in the "Rescue Cadre Class" organized by the Communist Party of China. On October 17, he went to the anti-Japanese front line in Zengcheng and carried out intense rescue work under enemy artillery fire. Zhu Li and his team members braved bombings from enemy planes and artillery fire, cleaning the wounds of the wounded, bandaging them, and transferring the seriously wounded to the rear all night long. At that time, the Communist Party of China's "Xinhua Daily" published an article praising them, "using their own blood and heads to write a glorious page in the history of the Chinese nation's struggle." In November of the same year, Zhu Li, who had been tested by the war, was absorbed into the Communist Party of China.

At the beginning of 1939, the rescue team and the nursing class were reorganized into the Guangdong Provincial Relief Society Relief Corps. The Corps consisted of 14 detachments. Zhu Li was in the eighth detachment and transferred to Guangzhou Bay to carry out anti-Japanese national rescue and refugee relief work. . The Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to establish a party branch in the eighth detachment, which will be directly led by the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. Zhu Li is an important member of the six party members of the branch. After training in the war, Zhu Li was appointed as a cadre of the Special Committee of Zhongxin South Road in 1940.

In March 1940, a student uprising occurred in Guangzhou Bay Yizhi Middle School. Students fought against capitulation teachers who promoted the theory of subjugation, and put forward the slogans of eradicating traitors, resisting Japan, and selecting teachers, which had a great influence in Guangzhou Bay. The South Road Special Committee quickly sent Yin Jie (one of the leaders of the Suixi County Party Committee) and Zhu Li to guide the student movement. The student unrest was suppressed by the French authorities. Lin Xibao, secretary of the Guangzhou Bay branch of the Communist Party of China and teacher of Yizhi Middle School, was detained. Zhu Li was appointed by the South Road Underground Party to organize the rescue. Lin Xibao was soon released.

In 1941, the Kuomintang diehards once again set off an anti-Japanese countercurrent. Zhu Li was appointed by the organization to go to the Nanyang area of ????Singapore to mobilize patriotic overseas Chinese to raise funds and materials to support the motherland’s war of resistance and contribute to the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army, and the Anti-Japanese War. Make a significant contribution to the supply of base areas. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhu Li devoted himself to the War of Liberation until the liberation of the country.

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Li worked in the central government, and was later transferred to the Yuexi Agricultural Reclamation Bureau and the Hainan Agricultural Reclamation Bureau to hold leadership positions, making contributions to the agricultural reclamation cause of the motherland. After Zhu Li retired, he actively wrote his memoirs to educate the next generation on revolutionary traditions. He died of illness in 1995 at the age of 75.