In 1958, the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region was officially established. In the preparatory stage before the establishment of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, there was a person who had served as deputy director of the United Front Work Department who did a lot of work, and at the same time, he also served as the first chairman of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region People's Government after the establishment of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
Liu Geping was born in 1904, Hui, Hebei people. Liu Geping received a good education from an early age, and when he grew up, he abandoned his pen and joined the troops of the warlord Li Chun, a direct descendant, and entered the military academy. After the May Fourth Movement, Liu Geping actively participated in the student movement, in 1922, he joined the Communist Youth League and began to participate in the revolution under the leadership of our party, and it was also this year that he was ordered to return to his hometown and began to develop the peasant movement in his hometown, and led the peasants to resist the dictatorship of the Kuomintang.
In 1926, Liu Geping officially joined our party, after which he was ordered to go to the Jinnan region to carry out propaganda work, waiting for the opportunity to develop party members and strengthen the strength of our party. During his stay in Jinnan, Liu Geping used the school as a cover to develop party members while carrying out the student movement, and made indelible contributions to the early development and growth of our party in the north. In 1927, when the Great Revolution failed and the first cooperation between the two parties broke down, Liu Geping was ordered to continue to organize armed forces in the Jinnan region, and created the first revolutionary detachment in Jinnan, captured a number of weapons, and promoted the vigorous development of the revolutionary movement in the Jinnan region.
In 1928, Liu Geping was arrested by the Kuomintang for organizing a workers' strike, after which he was sentenced to three years in prison and released from prison in 1931. After the outbreak of the September 18 Incident, the national crisis became the main contradiction in society, and Liu Geping also began to devote himself to the anti-Japanese struggle to save the country under the command of our party, and created the "Hui Anti-Japanese Salvation Congress" in Xi'an. In 1932, Liu Geping was ordered to return to the Jinnan region to organize workers and peasant forces and lead anti-Japanese activities in the Jinnan region, but Liu Geping's actions also attracted the attention of the Kuomintang, who was arrested and imprisoned by the Kuomintang in 1934 and did not regain his freedom until 1944.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liu Geping mainly operated in East China, serving as deputy director of the Democratic Movement Department of the East China Bureau, supporting the East China Field Army in propaganda and supporting the front, and promoting the victory of the Liberation War. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liu Geping was appointed deputy director of the Ethnic Affairs Committee, mainly engaged in the work of ethnic minority unity.
Objectively speaking, Liu Geping's work is very similar to the united front work, the United Front Work Department was formally established in 1948, the main responsibility is to promote multi-party cooperation and ethnic and religious affairs, therefore, in 1951, Liu Geping also concurrently served as the deputy director of the United Front Work Department, after which he has long been active in the southwest and northwest and other minority areas, doing a lot of work for the development of ethnic minority affairs on the mainland.
In 1957, the Fourth Session of the First National People's Congress adopted the Decision on the Establishment of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, after which Liu Geping served as the director of the Preparatory Committee of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, responsible for the preparatory work of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. In 1958, after the establishment of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Liu Geping was appointed as the first chairman of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region People's Government. However, Liu Geping did not serve long as chairman of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region People's Government, and in 1960, at the age of 56, Liu Geping was dismissed from all his posts in Ningxia.
It turned out that in this year, Liu Geping was mistakenly classified among the members of the local nationalist group and was characterized as a "local ethnic separatist", and he was dismissed from all posts. After being dismissed, Liu Geping was transferred to Beijing and entered the Party School. In 1965, Liu Geping made a comeback and was appointed vice governor of Shanxi Province, after which he successively served as the director of the Shanxi Provincial Revolutionary Committee and the first political commissar of the Shanxi Provincial Military Region. During the special period of ten years, Liu Geping was sent to the Tangshan Ceramics Factory no. 3 to work for 6 years.
After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, the relevant departments re-examined Liu Geping's case and finally concluded that liu Geping had no problems, and Liu Geping was also unjustly punished and all reputations were restored. After that, Liu Geping served as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and died of illness in 1992 at the age of 88.