Zhang Wentian, also known as Luo Fu, 1900 was born in Pudong. 1925 joined China, studied at Sun Yat-sen University and Moscow Red Professor Institute in the same year, returned to China on 1930,193/served as the Minister of Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, and served as the temporary member and standing committee member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee. 1933 arrived in the central revolutionary base area, served as member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and secretary of the Central Secretariat, and 1934 participated in the Long March.

During the Long March, Zhang Wentian firmly supported Mao Zedong's correct military proposition. At Zunyi meeting, he made a report against "Left" military mistakes according to the opinions discussed with Mao Zedong and Wang Jiaxiang before the meeting, which made an important contribution to saving the Party and the Red Army and realizing the fundamental transformation of the Party's military line. During Yan 'an period, Zhang Wentian was responsible for the theoretical propaganda and cadre education of the whole party for a long time. After 1938, he served as secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC), director of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee and dean of Marxism-Leninism College. He did a lot of publicity and education work to promote the national war of resistance against Japan and trained a large number of cadres for the party. His speeches, such as "On Youth Cultivation" and "On Treating People with Things", have had a wide influence on cadres and young people. 194 1 after the Yan' an rectification movement began, Zhang Wentian spent more than a year investigating the rural society in northern Shaanxi and northwestern Shanxi, and wrote many investigation reports.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Wentian went to the Northeast to do local work, and successively served as secretary of the CPC Hejiang Provincial Committee, member of the Standing Committee of the Northeast Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and organization minister. During this period, he wrote the Outline of Economic Components and Basic Principles of Economic Construction in Northeast China, which is of great theoretical significance to the new China economy.

After 1950, Zhang Wentian turned to the diplomatic front, successively served as ambassador to the Soviet Union and executive vice minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, participated in a series of major diplomatic activities in China at that time, and made remarkable achievements for the diplomatic cause of the new China. 1July, 976, Zhang Wentian died in Wuxi, Jiangsu.