Minister of General Logistics Department of China People's Liberation Army and Minister of State Food Industry.

Born in Changsha County, Hunan Province, 1900, 1 18 10, in a tenant farmer's family on the outskirts of Changsha. 1 1 year-old entered a private school, studied in primary school, and worked part-time. 1920, joined the Xiang army as a document and served as the quartermaster and quartermaster at the regiment level. 1922 sneaked back to his hometown, 1925 joined the Kuomintang, served as the supervisor of the district party department, took over the district academic affairs Committee, and raised funds to establish the county high school Zhonghe Zunyang girls' school. After the May 30th tragedy, we organized a revenge meeting to publicize anti-imperialist and patriotic ideas, organized a ten-member national salvation group and a school lecture tour, and secretly organized a farmers' association with progressive teachers as the backbone. Participated in peasant movement workshops, listened to Mao Zedong's speech, and received * * *. After the Northern Expeditionary Army 1926 entered Hunan, he persuaded his brother to hand over more than 100 guns of the Township Defense Bureau to the peasant associations and was appointed as the second detachment leader of the second column of the Changyue Guerrilla Command of the National Revolutionary Army. In September, the 14th Peasant Association of Changsha County was established and elected as its chairman. 1927 65438+ joined China in October. After the failure of the Great Revolution, he dived into Wuhan, was introduced by the Central Military Commission, followed by Chen Geng to the rear office of the 24th Division, and served as a conscription commissioner in Hunan. He recruited more than 65,438+000 workers from Anyuan to form a new company as a platoon leader. 1September, 927, participated in the autumn harvest uprising on the Hunan-Jiangxi border. Successively served as adjutant of the first regiment of the Revolutionary Army of Workers and Peasants, chief of finance of the government of workers, peasants and soldiers in Chaling County, captain of the trench of the 31st regiment, chief of political security, chief of quartermaster of the 12th Red Army, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee, deputy commander of the Red Army General Command, and chief of the general station of the Red Army of Workers and Peasants, and participated in the establishment of the people's army logistics. On the way to the Long March, he took the lead in forming a stretcher team to carry Zhou Enlai, who was seriously ill, out of the grass. Later, he fell ill himself. After arriving in northern Shaanxi, he served as director of the Quartermaster Storage Department, dean of the Red Army General Hospital, minister and political commissar of the Military Station Department, and director of the Anti-University School Affairs Department. He overcame difficulties to complete the task of raising a ship for extradition, ensured the Red Army to cross the river eastward, and was rewarded by Mao Zedong.

During his stay in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he served as Deputy Minister, Minister and Political Commissar of the General Logistics Department of the Central Military Commission, Deputy Chief of Staff, Minister and Political Commissar of the Eighth Route Army Front Headquarters, 129 Division Service Minister and Political Commissar, Director of the Finance Committee of the Border Region Government and Chairman of Jinan Bank. He worked hard to raise food money, carry out self-help in production and organize the production of weapons, equipment and living materials, which provided strong logistical support and financial support for War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory. 1939, Zhu De and Peng telegraphed to send him to the headquarters in front of the Eighth Route Army to take charge of logistics. He resolutely carried out the general policy of financial and economic work to develop production and ensure supply, and did hard and effective work to ensure the supply of military food and achieve balance of payments. 1944, he and Teng Daiyuan put forward the famous "Tengyang Plan" of the Eighth Route Army's production saving movement, clearly put forward the policy of "division of labor, remuneration for labor, and consideration for public and private interests", which mobilized the enthusiasm of the army for production saving.

During the War of Liberation, he successively served as the Standing Committee of the Central Bureau of Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Henan, Minister of Economy, Minister of General Logistics Department, Minister of General Logistics Department of Military Commission, Commander of Outside Line of North China Logistics Department, and Deputy Director of North China Finance and Economics Office, which provided reliable logistical support and financial support for the overall victory of the War of Liberation. He effectively led the military production of the people's army and went to Shandong to jointly deploy the logistics work of the Huaihai Campaign with the Third Field Army. He was commended by Zhou Enlai and chairman of the Central Military Commission at the conference on logistics work of the whole army.

After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), he served as the head of the General Logistics Department of the People's Liberation Army in China, the head of the Food Industry Department of the Central People's Government, the member of the State Finance Committee, and the head of the Ministry of Finance of the People's Liberation Army in China. He worked hard to improve and improve the logistics and financial work of the whole army, forgetting to eat and sleep, and breaking down from overwork. 1in the autumn of 954, because of brain cancer, I couldn't stick to my job and obeyed the organization's decision to go to Moscow for treatment. 1954 165438+ died in the Kremlin hospital on1October 28th at the age of 54. After the ashes arrived in Beijing, a grand memorial service was held for him on February 7, 65438. Premier Zhou Enlai presided over the ceremony and delivered a long speech. He is one of the founders and outstanding figures of the people's army logistics work, and is recognized as a military financial expert. In the most difficult years of 194 1 War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, in order to solve the problem of the eighth route army's military supply, he invented a word "clothes" (pronounced "west") to calculate the real wages, which aroused the enthusiasm of military production. Mr Zhang Naiqi praised this system as "an extremely specific and complicated science".