Zhu Guang’s life

He has devoted himself to the revolution since he was a student. He participated in the Guangzhou Uprising in 1927 and soon went to Shanghai to engage in revolutionary activities. In 1932, he joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and served as Secretary-General of the Political Department of the Fourth Front Army; in 1936, he served as the Work Section Chief of the Central Propaganda Department and later as Secretary-General of the Marxist-Leninist Academy; in 1939, he served as Secretary-General of the Eighteenth Group Army Headquarters; from 1940 to 1945, he served as a General Secretary. Director of the Propaganda Department of the 29th Division, director of the Political Department of the Jiluyu Military Region of the Southern Hebei Military Region; after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he successively served as deputy secretary of the Nenjiang Provincial Party Committee, deputy political commissar of the military region, leader of the 36th Group of the West Manchurian Military Adjustment Department, secretary of the Qiqihar Municipal Party Committee, and Northeast Bureau Secretary-General of the Ministry of Urban Affairs and Secretary of the Changchun Municipal Party Committee. After the liberation of Guangzhou, he successively served as deputy director of the Guangzhou Municipal Military Control Commission, deputy mayor, mayor, deputy secretary of the municipal party committee, secretary of the secretariat, and the second, third, fourth and fifth sessions of the Consultative Committee of the Guangzhou Municipal People's Congress (the predecessor of the Guangzhou CPPCC) Vice Chairman, Member of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Committee and Vice Governor. Deputy Director of the Foreign Cultural Affairs Commission of the State Council, Member of the Standing Committee of the Anhui Provincial Committee, and Vice Governor of Anhui Province. He was elected as a representative of the first and second National People's Congress. On March 9, 1969, Comrade Zhu Guang died unjustly in Hefei during the turmoil of the "Cultural Revolution". Rehabilitated on August 14, 1978.

During the Long March, Zhu Guang opposed Zhang Guotao's wrong approach of leading the Fourth Red Army to the west instead of the north. Zhang Guotao retaliated and was labeled a Luo Zhanglong rightist. Because Zhu Guang was good at calligraphy and painting, Zhang Guotao kept him and locked him up in the Security Bureau. He was escorted together with Liao Chengzhi, Wang Zhanjin, Li Chunlin and others who were also persecuted. They marched in handcuffs during the day and marched at night. He opened the handcuffs and put on the shackles, and was engaged in mimeographing, lithographic printing, writing slogans, drawing military maps and printing banknotes, etc., but was not killed.

Zhu Guang is a talented poet. His poems such as "Good Guangzhou" and "Song of the Pearl River" as well as his urban construction ideas of "greening the embankment and beautifying Guangzhou" and "building Guangzhou into an industrial base in South China" have left a deep impression on the people of Guangzhou.

This man has passed away, but his voice and smile, his love for Gan Tang, his integrity, his people-friendly style, and his poetry and calligraphy once made the people of Yangcheng feel very close to him. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Zhu Guang, comrades who worked with Zhu Guang fondly recalled his deeds——