Xiping County Chushan Town Special: Revolutionary Figures in the Historical Context - Luo Heting

Luo Heting was born in 1911 in a peasant family in Suntang Village, Chushan Town, Xiping County. He studied in private school for 8 years, participated in the police training class held by the Kuomintang in Xiping County in 1930, joined the Kuomintang in the autumn of 1931, joined the Kuomintang army in July 1933, and returned home in February 1937.

In the summer of 1938, the anti-Japanese salvation movement led by the party organization of Xiping County was launched to Xiping County based on the county No. 5 Primary School, and open anti-Japanese salvation organizations such as the "Anti-Japanese National Liberation Vanguard" and the "Anti-Enemy Support Association" were established successively. With the education and help of Zhai Yunfu (Han Zhuo, Ziqiang), secretary of the Suntang branch of the Communist Party of China, Luo Heting joined the anti-Japanese national liberation vanguard and began to engage in anti-Japanese rescue work. In September, Zhai Yunfu and Xie Zhenru introduced him to the Communist Party of China and took over as the secretary of the Suntang branch of the Communist Party of China. In accordance with the party's instructions on developing the party's organization and building anti-Japanese armed forces, Luo Heting actively engaged in the party's work. He took advantage of our party's connections in the local power of the Kuomintang to obtain the legal status of deputy of the Sun Tang Security Corps, actively publicized the anti-Japanese national united front policy of the Communist Party of China, cultivated backbones, and developed the party's organization. In a relatively short period of time, the party members of the Suntang branch of the Communist Party of China have grown to more than 20 people, and they have mastered the armament of more than 10 guns, becoming an advanced party branch in Xiping County. In the spring of 1939, Luo Heting, in the name of the secretary of the advanced party branch, attended the joint meeting of the secretaries of the Henan Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China in Zhugou, and introduced the work experience of the branch.

In April 1939, the Xiping County Committee of the Communist Party of China was established, and Luo Heting was elected as a member of the committee, responsible for propaganda work. In November, the situation deteriorated after the "Zhugou Massacre". In February 1940, in accordance with the instructions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to "crack down and conceal" and "rectify the organization", the Central Henan Prefectural Committee decided to reorganize the Xiping County Party Committee of the Communist Party of China. Luo Heting was appointed secretary of the county party committee. According to the instructions of the Central Henan Prefectural Committee, Luo set up a secret liaison station at the home of Luo Zhaofeng in Sun Tang to get in touch with Yang Yi of the prefectural party committee to guide the work of Xiping County. In March 1941, the party organization in central Henan urgently retreated, and the Xiping County Party Committee of the Communist Party of China lost contact with the higher-level party organization. Luo Heting adopted the method of one-line contact to inform the party members in various localities of the situation and asked them to use various forms of concealment. Luo Heting hid himself as the deputy and principal of the security team and waited for action.

In the spring of 1945, when the Huanglin Department of the New Fourth Army advanced into central Henan, Luo Heting promptly contacted Leng Xinhua, director of the Political Department of the Huanglin Department of the New Fourth Army. At that time, Luo Heting thought: Restoring party membership is an issue for organizational consideration, and he should concentrate his energies, find ways to complete the tasks assigned by the party, and withstand the party's test in practice. Therefore, he put aside his personal problems and worked actively, not only providing accurate information to the New Fourth Army in a timely manner, but also taking every opportunity to get in touch with comrades who had lost organizational ties and asking them to come out and work actively. In May of that year, with the help of the Yuzhong Guerrilla Regiment of the New Fourth Army, the Xiping County Administrative Committee was established, and Luo Heting was appointed secretary of the Administrative Committee. In June, the Xiping County Anti-Japanese Democratic Coalition Government, the Xiping County Anti-Japanese Independent League, and the Xiping County Peasant Movement Salvation Association were formally established, and Luo Heting was elected chairman of the peasant association. From then on, he worked harder for the party, and under the leadership of the coalition government, he led the poor peasants to carry out the campaign of rent reduction and interest reduction and land redemption, so that the vast majority of the poor peasants redeemed the land sold to the landlords due to the 1942 famine. The peasants who redeemed their land raised their eyebrows and actively participated in the anti-Japanese salvation movement.

In August 1945, Japan surrendered. The Kuomintang diehards launched a large-scale attack on the liberated areas of central Henan. In late October, Luo Heting withdrew south with the Xiping County Party Committee and the county government of the Communist Party of China to Tongbai Mountain, and after the reorganization of local cadres and armed forces, Luo Heting was assigned to work in the cadre team.

In June 1946, when the Central Plains broke through, he attacked eastward with Pidingjun's troops to cover the breakthrough of the main force. In battle, he was witty and brave, and fought bravely to kill the enemy until he broke through and won the victory, and withstood the test of war. The party organization approved his rejoining the Chinese Communist Party. At the end of the year, he went to Dancheng County in the Henan-Anhui Soviet Region with the cadres. In the autumn of 1948, he was transferred to the head of the Civil Affairs Section of Jieshou County, Anhui Province.

In November 1948, after the Huaihai Campaign began, Jieshou County assigned him to the Baji area to organize a stretcher team to support the Huaihai Campaign. Baji is a new area, and the consciousness of the masses is not high, and it is difficult to work. However, he advanced in the face of difficulties, and as soon as he arrived in Baji, he went deep among the masses with local cadres to publicize the important significance of the Huaihai Campaign and mobilized the masses to participate in the work of supporting the front. In less than a week, a stretcher team of more than 1,000 people was organized. He personally served as the captain and braved the enemy's bullets to take the lead in rescuing the wounded. In the course of the battle, he not only set an example and took the lead, but also paid special attention to doing ideological and political work and educating cadres and stretcher bearers to carry forward the spirit of class fraternity. He often said to his comrades: "Our fighters who did not hesitate to sacrifice for the cause of the people's liberation and bravely killed the enemy were wounded on the battlefield, and we must do our utmost to rescue them from the battlefield." Therefore, the stretcher team he led from beginning to end, everyone rushed to rescue the wounded. After the battle, he received a commendation from his superiors.

In February 1949, Luo Heting was ordered to go south with the cadre task force and arrived in Wuchang in mid-May. In 1950, he was transferred to the Wuhan Wharf Management Office. After the establishment of the Wuhan Removal Company, he successively served as the chief of the company secretary and deputy manager, and in 1957, he was transferred to the deputy director of the Wuhan Municipal Transportation Bureau. In 1958, under the influence of the "left" ideology, the company's transportation adopted the timing system, and the transportation tasks were overfulfilled within the specified time. Some people even reported that they could complete 25 to 26 hours of transportation in a day. Luo Heting vigorously opposed this unrealistic approach, and for this reason, in 1959 he was branded a "right-leaning opportunist", removed from his post as deputy director, and sent to work in the dispatch room. It was not until 1962 that he was rehabilitated and reinstated as deputy director of the Transportation Bureau.

At the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution" in 1966, he was accused of "traitor" and was brutally persecuted. In 1970, he was sent to work in the "57 Cadre School" in Zhao Liqiao, Puqi. In August 1972, he was transferred to the Forest Farm of Wuhan Municipal Garden Bureau as Secretary of the Party Branch.

Although he suffered serious setbacks and even physical destruction in previous movements, he never cared about personal gains and losses, and worked actively. In order to change the backward appearance, he went deep into the masses to investigate and study, and on the basis of mastering the laws of production in the garden, he formulated a feasible production plan. In the process of implementing the production plan, although he was over the age of six, he also personally participated in manual labor such as ploughing, planting, and grafting, and played an exemplary and leading role in everything to put the plan into practice. In the second year, the forest farm turned a profit.

On March 20, 1978, Luo Heting died of myocardial infarction. He was 67 years old. In 1979, the party realistically rehabilitated his so-called "traitor" and restored his reputation.

Luo Heting was a time-tested proletarian revolutionary who made great contributions to the victory of the Chinese People's Revolutionary War and the cause of liberation, and also added a beautiful red color to the revolutionary culture of the mountain. In order to better inherit the red gene, the government of Chushan Town actively collected information on red revolutionary figures and revisited the history of the revolution. In the next step, Izuyama Town will continue to deeply explore the cultural connotation and spiritual core of the local red revolution, educate and guide the majority of party members and cadres to carry forward the revolutionary tradition and inherit the red gene.