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Wang Feng (politician)

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Wang Feng
汪锋
Wang Feng
Wang Feng
BornDecember 17, 1910
Lantian, Shaanxi Province
DiedDecember 12, 1998
Beijing
Occupationpolitician
Political partyChinese Communist Party

Wang Feng (Chinese: 汪锋; December 17, 1910 - December 12, 1998), original surname Wang (Chinese: 王), was a Chinese politician, born in Lantian, Shaanxi Province.[1] He was Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Gansu, twice Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Ningxia and Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary and Chairman of Xinjiang (1978).

Biography

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Wang Feng became a member of the Communist Youth League of China in 1926, and subsequently joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1927. He held the positions of chairman of the Lantian County School Federation and secretary of the Youth League Committee. In May 1928, he participated in the Weihua Uprising and thereafter assumed the role of secretary of the CCP Shaanxi Provincial Committee (Chinese: 中共陕西省委).[2] Subsequently, he assumed the role of secretary of the Lantian County Committee of the CCP. Subsequent to 1931, he assumed the role of organization minister of the Military Committee of the CCP Shaanxi Provincial Committee and served as the secretary of the Military Committee. Beginning in 1932, he served as the secretary of the Weibei Special Committee of the CCP, the Acting Political Commissar of the Second Regiment of the Red 26th Army, and the secretary of the CCP Hanzhong Special Committee. During the winter of 1934, he commenced employment at the CCP Provisional Central Bureau in Shanghai. In December 1935, Mao Zedong personally appointed Wang Feng to travel to Xi'an in the name of the Red Army, holding a handwritten letter from Mao Zedong and Peng Dehuai to Yang Hucheng, Du Bincheng, and Deng Baoshan, to negotiate on behalf of the Red Army and the Seventeenth Route Army, and to ultimately strive for them to refrain from attacking each other and to unite to fight against the Japanese with the Red Army.[3][4] In the spring of 1936, he assumed the role of secretary for the CCP Guanzhong Special Committee. Subsequently, he was appointed as a special commissioner of the Northwest Army.[5]

In 1938, he assumed leadership of the Military Department of the CCP Shaanxi Provincial Committee (Chinese: 中共陕西省委军事部).[6] Subsequent to 1941, he became leadership of the United Front Work Department of the CCP Shaanxi Provincial Committee and served as the deputy secretary of the CCP Guanzhong Local Committee. Subsequent to 1945, he assumed the roles of secretary of the CCP Shaanxi Provincial Committee, secretary of the CCP Party Committee of the E-Yu-Shaan Frontier Region, chairman of the Frontier Region Government, and political commissar of both the E-Yu-Shaan Military Region and the Thirty-eighth Army of the Northwest Democratic United Army. Subsequent to 1948, he assumed the role of secretary of the CCP Southern Shaanxi District Committee, Southern Shaanxi Military Region (Chinese: 陕南军区), and political commissar of the 19th Army.[7]

Following the establishment of the People's Republic of China, Wang Feng assumed the roles of deputy minister and minister of the United Front Work Department of the Northwest Bureau of the CCP Central Committee, as well as director of the Ethnic Affairs Committee of the Northwest Military and Political Commission.[8] In 1953, he was appointed deputy minister of the United Front Work Department of the CCP Central Committee, deputy director of the State People's Committee, and first secretary of the CCP Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Committee.[9] In 1960, he served as the secretary of the Secretariat of the Northwest Bureau of the CCP Central Committee, the first secretary of the CCP Gansu Committee, and the first political commissar of the Gansu Military Region. Subsequent to 1977, he held the positions of Second Secretary and First Secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Director of the Autonomous Region Reform Committee, Chairman of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), as well as Second Political Commissar, First Political Commissar, and First Secretary of the Party Committee of the Urumqi Military Region (Chinese: 乌鲁木齐军区)[10][11].

In 1986, he became Vice Chairman of the Sixth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a member of the Central Advisory Commission.[12] On December 12, 1998, Wang Feng died at the age of 88 in Beijing.[13]

References

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Citations

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  1. ^ Bartke 2012, pp. 452–453.
  2. ^ 中国共产党. 全国代表大会; 中共中央党史硏究室. 第一硏究部 (2005). 中国共产党第七次全国代表大会代表名录 (in Chinese). 中共党史出版社. p. 91. ISBN 978-7-208-05733-3. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
  3. ^ 毛泽东大典 (in Chinese). 沈阳出版社. 1993. p. 254. ISBN 978-7-5441-0001-4. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
  4. ^ 新华月报社 (1999). 新华月报 (in Chinese). 人民出版社. p. 175. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
  5. ^ 中国共产党. 全国代表大会; 中共中央党史硏究室. 第一硏究部 (2005). 中国共产党第七次全国代表大会代表名录 (in Chinese). 中共党史出版社. p. 91. ISBN 978-7-208-05733-3. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
  6. ^ 陕西省地方志编纂委员会 (Shaanxi Sheng, China) (2002). 陕西省志: 中囯共产党志. 第47卷. 中华人民共和国地方志丛书 (in Chinese). 陕西人民出版社. p. 373. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
  7. ^ 《邓小平评历史》 编辑组 (1998). 邓小平评历史 (in Chinese). 中国言实出版社. p. 2762. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
  8. ^ 中国西北少数民族通史 (in Chinese). 民族出版社. 2009. p. 580. ISBN 978-7-105-09929-0. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
  9. ^ 中国大百科全书出版社; 《中国大百科全书》第二版总编辑委员会 (2009). 中国大百科全书: (A-Z). 中国大百科全书: 第二版 (in Chinese). 中國大百科全書出版社. p. 568. ISBN 978-7-5000-7958-3. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
  10. ^ 中国共产党. 中央组织部; 中共中央党史硏究室; 中央档案馆 (2000). 中国共产党组织史资料: 中国人民解放军组织, 1949.10-1997.9 (附卷2) (in Chinese). 中共党史出版社. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
  11. ^ 中华人民共和国党政军群领导人名录编辑组 (1990). 中华人民共和国党政军群领导人名录 (in Chinese). 中共党史出版社. p. 16. ISBN 978-7-80023-264-0. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
  12. ^ 中华人民共和国历史长编: 1977-1994 (in Chinese). 广西人民出版社. 1994. p. 1029. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
  13. ^ "汪锋：富国雄才拯九州 永做人民一老牛". 中国军网 (in Chinese). 2023-12-04. Retrieved 2024-11-20.

Bibliography

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Party political offices
Preceded by Communist Party Chief of Ningxia
1958 		Succeeded by
Li Jinglin
Preceded by
Li Jinglin
 Communist Party Chief of Ningxia
1959–1961 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Communist Party Chief of Gansu
1961–1966 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Communist Party Chief of Xinjiang
1978–1981 		Succeeded by
Government offices
Preceded by
Saifuddin Azizi
 Chairman of Xinjiang
1978–1979 		Succeeded by
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