Chen Yi (190 1~ 1972) is a tried and tested proletarian revolutionary, strategist and diplomat, one of the founders and leaders of China People's Liberation Army, Marshal People's Republic of China (PRC), and an outstanding party and state leader. The word Hong Zhong. People from Lezhi County, Sichuan Province. 19 19 went to France to work and study. 192 1 year. 1922 Join the Socialist Youth League of China. 1923 joined China. 1927 political work in Wuhan Central Military Academy. In the same year, he served as the political instructor of the 73rd Regiment of the 25th Division of the 1 1 Army in Nanchang Uprising Force. Participated in and led the Southern Hunan Uprising.
During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, he successively served as the representative of the First Division of the Revolutionary Army of Workers and Peasants, the representative and commander of the Twelfth Division of the Fourth Army of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army, the director of the Political Department of the Gongsi Army, the secretary of the Military Commission, Gong Liu Jun, the political commissar of the Gongsan Army, the secretary of the Southwest Special Committee of the Communist Party of China, the commander of the Red 22 Army, the commander-in-chief and political commissar of the Jiangxi Military Region, and the commander-in-chief of the marked army and the director of the chinese soviet republic Central Government Office. After the Long March, the Red Army stayed in Jiangxi Soviet Area and led the guerrilla war in the south for three years.
During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, he served as the commander of the first detachment of the New Fourth Army, under the Jiangnan Command and the Subei Command, and was the acting commander of the New Fourth Army.
During the War of Liberation, he served as commander of Shandong Military Region, commander of East China Military Region, commander and political commissar of East China Field Army, deputy commander of Central China Military Region and Central China Field Army, and commander and political commissar of the Third Field Army.
After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), he served as commander of the East China Military Region, mayor of Shanghai and vice chairman of the People's Revolutionary Military Commission. 65438-0954 Deputy Prime Minister of the State Council. 1955 was awarded the rank of marshal, and won the first-class August 1st Medal, the first-class Medal of Independence and Freedom, and the first-class Medal of Liberation. 1958 concurrently serves as minister of foreign affairs. He used to be director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the State Council, dean of the Foreign Affairs College, honorary president of the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs, Vice Chairmen of the CPC Central Military Commission, vice chairman of the first to third national defense committees, and vice chairman of the third and fourth Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He is a member of the 7th and 9th the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the 8th the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee. 1972 65438+1died of intestinal cancer in Beijing on October 6th at the age of 7 1. Chen Yi is a scholar with both civil and military skills, who reads widely. There are many military and political works and poems, including Selected Works of Chen Yi's Military Affairs, Selected Poems and Songs of Chen Yi and Selected Poems and Songs of Chen Yi.