A workshop was held at the Great Hall of the People in central Beijing on Tuesday to mark the 100th birth anniversary of Peng Xuefeng, a former strategist of the Communist Party of China (CPC)-led armed forces.
Guo Boxiong, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), addressed the meeting, calling for learning from old-generation revolutionaries and strategists and revolutionary martyrs.
Peng, a native of Xiayi, Henan Province, central China, joined the Chinese Communist Youth League (CCYL) in June of 1925, and the CPC in September of 1926. In the Spring of 1927, he participated in a farmers' uprising in the suburbs of the Beijing.
In 1930, Peng joined the CPC-led Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and since then, he had taken a series of positions in the CPC-led armed forces. Peng took part in the Long March, a world-known military maneuver of the Red Army (1934-36), and the Anti-Japanese War (1937-45).
On Sept. 11, 1944, he died in a battle against the Japanese invaders, at the age of 37. One year later, the Japanese surrendered on Aug. 15.
Liu Chengjun, president of the Chinese Academy of Military Science (CAMS), presided over the workshop. Other speakers included Liu Yuan, political commissar of the CAMS, and Chen Quanguo, deputy secretary of the CPC Henan provincial committee.
Source: Xinhua |
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