Huang Zhang

Huang Zhang

Huang Zhang was born in 1901 in Xishan Township, Guixian County, Guangxi (now Xishan village, Shika Town, qintang District, Guigang City). In the autumn of 1926, Huang Zhang took part in the revolutionary work led by the party and League organizations in Guixian county. In March 1945, Huang Zhang organized the people's armed struggle against Japan in Luchuan, Bobai, Xingye, Guixian county and other places. He was arrested and died because of the defeat of the uprising. He was 44 years old.

Personal profile

Huang Zhang was born in 1901 in Xishan Township, Guixian County, Guangxi (now Xishan village, Shika Town, qintang District, Guigang City).

Personal life

In the autumn of 1926, he took part in the revolutionary work led by the party and League organizations in Guixian County, and joined the Communist Party of China in 1927. In the spring of 1928, the CPC Guixian county Party committee was destroyed. In the summer of the same year, Zhu xi'ang and Lei Jingtian went to Guixian county to rebuild the party and League organization. Huang Zhang served as a member of the county Party committee and was later appointed as secretary of the CPC Binyang County Party committee. He attended the second party congress of Guangxi Province in September 1929. In 1930, Huang Zhang was transferred back to work in Guixian county. On August 1, he organized the masses of Guixian county to hold an activity to commemorate the third anniversary of Nanchang Uprising. Soon after he was arrested, he was released for lack of evidence and left Guixian County for Lushu activity.

In 1934, Huang Zhang got in touch with Chen an, member of the Yujiang special committee of the Communist Party of China, and was sent back to Gui county to take charge of the reconstruction of the underground Party organizations in Gui County, Yulin and Wuzhou. In November 1936, he attended the third party congress of Guangxi Province and was elected a member of the Provincial Working Committee. In July 1939, the southern Working Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to set up three special committees in Guangxi, abolishing the Provincial Working Committee, and Huang Zhang was appointed secretary of the southeast special branch of Guangxi.

In the winter of 1940, the southern committee decided to rebuild the Provincial Working Committee, and Huang Zhang served as the director of organization of the Provincial Working Committee. After the July 9th incident in Guilin in 1942, Huang Zhang, as deputy secretary and organization Minister of the Provincial Working Committee, went to Dawan of Laibin county to carry out the party's work and set up the transportation station of the Provincial Working Committee. In order to raise funds for the party's activities, Huang Zhang destroyed his family many times and sold off a house and a piece of land left in his family to finance the revolution.

In March 1945, Huang Zhang organized the people's armed struggle against Japan in Luchuan, Bobai, Xingye, Guixian and other places. Later, he was arrested because of the failure of the uprising and unfortunately died at the age of 44.

Characters and deeds

It's no accident that Huang Zhang took this road. When he was a student of a county primary school, he took part in anti imperialist demonstrations. As a shop assistant, he joined the Nanning herbal medicine trade union and supported the May 30th Movement and the strike between the province and Hong Kong.

At the end of 1926, Huang Zhang began to devote himself to revolutionary work. He returned to Guixian county from Nanning to get in touch with Chen Peiren, Secretary of the CPC Guixian county Party committee. He secretly mobilized progressive youth, printed and distributed revolutionary leaflets, convened meetings of the poor people, taught and sang revolutionary songs, and publicized revolutionary ideas. In this way, the peasant movement in Guixian county began. The next spring, the county Party committee decided to send Huang Zhang to Shika township to lead the peasants in their struggle against local tyrants and evil gentry. Huang Zhang decided to set up a rural farmers' Association there first. After publicity, more than 7000 people attended the founding meeting. The masses held high the red flag, shouldered spears and spears, and were in high spirits. After the meeting, Huang Zhang took the opportunity to drive the team to the home of landlords Lin Zhuchen and Huang Jiting to demonstrate. The landlord was so scared that he was forced to admit the crime of embezzling the school property and promised to return the compensation. He was also forced to agree to the farmer's request for rent and interest reduction. The peasant movement was successful.

However, just as the peasant movements were surging and vigorous, Chiang Kai Shek and Wang Jingwei launched counter revolutionary coups on April 12 and July 15, 1927. In an instant, the clouds were thick and the wind came. Those who do not have a firm position are deterred, while Huang Zhang resolutely joined the Communist Party of China in the atmosphere of white terror, which reflects the true nature of the revolutionaries.

In the summer of 1929, the war between Jiang and GUI ended with the defeat of GUI warlords. Yu zuobe and Li Mingrui, soldiers of the anti Chiang Kai Shek faction in Guangxi, held the military and political power in Guangxi. They want to consolidate their position with the help of the Communist Party and require Party cadres to work in their military and political organs. Huang Zhang took advantage of this favorable opportunity to vigorously carry out the workers' and peasants' movement in Guixian and mobilized a group of outstanding young people to Nanning to participate in the fifth Guangxi Police Brigade under the control of the party. Later, the brigade participated in the Guangxi Longzhou uprising led by Deng Xiaoping, Li Mingrui and Yu Zuoyu, and was officially reorganized into the Eighth Army of the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army.

In the summer of 1931, Guangxi warlords regained control of Guangxi. In order to consolidate the rule of the feudal landlord, comprador and bourgeoisie, they carried out extremely cruel military repression on the people of all ethnic groups in Guangxi. Many underground Party organizations were seriously damaged, and only Chen an was left in the Yujiang special committee of the Communist Party of China. Huang Zhang, however, was not discouraged. Together with Chen an, he insisted on carrying out revolutionary activities secretly in Southeast Guangxi, determined to rebuild the Yujiang special committee of the Communist Party of China. After several years of efforts, in November 1935, the Party Congress attended by the representatives of some counties in Southeast Guangxi was held in mugenwei, Xingye county. At the meeting, the Preparatory Committee for the Yujiang special committee of the CPC was established, and Huang Zhang was elected as a member. After a year of preparatory work, on November 7, 1936, the Party Congress of Yujiang district was held in sanliluo village, Guixian county. To celebrate this important event, Party organizations in Nanning and Youjiang regions also sent representatives. So it actually became a provincial conference. At the meeting, the Guangxi Provincial Working Committee of the Communist Party of China (hereinafter referred to as the Provincial Working Committee) was elected, with Chen an as secretary and Huang Zhang as member.

At that time, Japan had occupied the northeast of China and further instigated the "five provinces autonomy in North China". The Chinese nation was at a critical juncture, and the Communist Party of China proposed the establishment of an anti Japanese national united front. According to the instructions of the higher Party committee (Southern Working Committee of the Communist Party of China), Huang Zhang actively participated in the Anti Japanese and national salvation movement. He often dressed up as a businessman and traveled through the countryside and markets to publicize the Anti Japanese ideas of the Communist Party of China. After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, in August 1937, he held a meeting in Beiliu Wucun attended by the party representatives from counties in Southeast Guangxi to convey the spirit of the party's National Congress and discuss how to mobilize the masses to carry out the national salvation movement. The meeting elected the special committee of Xunjiang District of the Communist Party of China, and Huang Zhang was elected as the Secretary, who was responsible for leading the Anti Japanese and national salvation movement in Southeast Guangxi. In August of the next year, he was dispatched by the Provincial Working Committee and led more than 10 party members and cadres to Guangzhou to learn about the Anti Japanese United Front. After the study, Huang Zhang successively held the same training courses for Party members and cadres in Wuzhou, Lingshan, Guixian and Yulin. He personally taught the students the party's Anti Japanese national united front policy and Mao Zedong's on protracted war. From 1939 to 1941, although the name of the party organization changed constantly, Huang Zhang always held the highest leadership position of the party in Southeast Guangxi. In view of the uneven quality of Party members, he paid close attention to the training of Party members and cadres. He held two training courses for Party members and cadres in Xinwei of Beiliu County, teaching the party's discipline, united front, mass work, and the party's struggle strategies, and improved the quality of Party members and cadres in Yulin, Beiliu, Luchuan, Bobai, Xingye, Rongxian and other counties.

On July 9, 1942, due to the mutiny of Guo Qian, the head of the Organization Department of the southern Working Committee of the Communist Party of China, who confessed the situation of the underground party in Guangxi, the Guangxi authorities wantonly searched for Communists in Guilin and created the "July 9" anti Communist incident, which seriously damaged the organs of the working committee of Guangxi Province. Su man, deputy secretary of the Provincial Working Committee, and Luo wenkun, Minister of women, died. Afterwards, Huang Zhang was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Working Committee. In the face of the anti Communist countercurrent of Guangxi, Huang Zhang was not afraid. Together with Qian Xing, Secretary of the Provincial Working Committee, he took decisive measures to evacuate the party members quickly and shift the focus of his work to the countryside, so as to achieve the goal of "concealing talents, laying ambush for a long time, accumulating strength and waiting for the opportunity". In October of the same year, he moved to Dawan Town, Laibin County, where he set up a "Tianma transportation line", with a secret transportation station, which was responsible for contacting the lost Communist Party members, sending and receiving letters from the Provincial Working Committee, and raising funds for the party's activities. After months of hard work, the severely damaged party organizations have resumed their work. In the spring of the next year, due to the frequent train traffic in Dawan Town, it was easy for the enemy to find the target. Huang Zhang moved his contact point to Bantang village, Liujiang County, and established an underground contact station in the name of running tile factory to guide the party's work. Despite the harsh environment, Huang Zhang always showed revolutionary optimism. He once made a goose feather fan, on which was engraved "the road is made by man", showing his firm determination to create a new revolutionary cause.

In 1944, in order to win the final victory of the Anti Japanese War, the Guangxi Provincial Working Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to hold an anti Japanese armed uprising in the enemy occupied areas. At the end of February 1945, the Anti Japanese armed uprising broke out in southeastern Guangxi, involving more than 2800 people in Guixian (now Guigang City), Xingye, Luchuan and Bobai counties. Huang Zhang, then director of the Anti Japanese guerrilla area office in Southeast Guangxi, led the uprising directly. The uprising troops captured many villages and towns and established Anti Japanese democratic government. On March 8, Zhong Ding, deputy head of Guixian county and deputy commander of the Kuomintang militia, led hundreds of people to raid the uprising headquarters. Huang Zhang was arrested during the breakout of the command force and died at the age of 44.

People's Memorial

On December 29, 2009, the unveiling ceremony of the statue of martyr Huang Zhang was held in the cemetery of martyr Huang Zhang in Nanshan.

More than 300 people attended the opening ceremony, including Wang gebing, Qin liquui, Mo Qifeng, Peng Jianming, relatives of martyr Huang Zhang, cadres and workers of relevant departments directly under the municipal government and Gangnan District, teachers and students of middle school. Wang gebing, Huang Kai, the eldest daughter of martyr Huang Zhang, and Chen Jun, the second son-in-law, unveiled the statue of martyr Huang Zhang.