The Legend of Cheng Mingyuan

Cheng Mingyuan, Secretary of the Central County Committee of the Chinese Communist Party’s Chaohu-Hefei-Lujiang Center (May 1942-February 1943)

Originally named Cheng Daofu and also known by the assumed name Cheng Daofu, he was from Juxing Township, Feixi County, Anhui. Born in 1900, he joined the revolution in 1926 and the Chinese Communist Party in 1929. He successively served as Organization Department Head of the Hefei Working Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Secretary of the He’er District Committee, Organization Department Head of the Hefei County Committee, County Committee Secretary, Secretary of the Northwestern Anhui Central County Committee and Director of the Central Communications Station to the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Area. In 1943 he became Political Commissar of the Chaobei Detachment, and in July 1943 Secretary of the Chaohu-Hefei County Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. He later served as Head of the Communications Section of the National Areas Department of the East China Bureau, and Secretary of the Fifth Jianghuai Prefectural Committee and Political Commissar of its military subdistrict...