The biography of General Zhang Ziming is selected from the book "The History of Gongbiao Qing".
Zhang Ziming(1918-04~1991-06)
Zhang Ziming, a native of Lishi County, Shanxi Province, a member of the Communist Party of China, served as the deputy political commissar of the Railway Soldiers from January 1979 to 1983.
He joined the revolutionary work in the spring of 1934 and joined the Communist Party of China in April 1935. During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, Zhang Ziming actively participated in revolutionary activities, read progressive books and periodicals hungrily when he was in middle school, was deeply influenced by progressive ideas, yearned for revolution, and participated in the organization of the "Pioneer Society", a reading club for the study of social sciences. After the September · 18 incident, he participated in the petition and class strike of Taiyuan students. In 1933, he was admitted to the No. 17 Middle School of Beiping in Hebei Province, continued to read Marxist-Leninist books, and in the spring of 1934, he joined the "Union of Social Science Scholars", a peripheral organization of the Communist Party of China, and actively engaged in the open and secret revolutionary activities organized by our party. Due to his progressive thinking, he often opposed the wrong leadership of the school and upheld justice, and was demerited twice by the school and arrested by the Kuomintang City Party Department in Beiping in October 1934. During his detention in the detention center, he was severely tortured, threatened and lured by secret agents, and even moved in to comfort and repent of his mother, but he remained loyal and unyielding, and strictly guarded the party's secrets. When the Kuomintang agents had nothing to do, they transferred him to the court for sentencing, and the court sentenced Zhang Ziming to two years in prison as a juvenile political prisoner without any confession and no evidence. While in prison, he actively participated in the theoretical "reading club" led by the underground party organization in prison and participated in the hunger strike struggle for legal rights. Because of his courage and steadfastness in the struggle, he was recruited by the party organization in prison to join the Communist Party of China in the spring of 1935. In October 1936, Zhang Ziming returned to his hometown of Shanxi after being released from prison after completing his sentence, and under the arrangement of the party organization, he successively served as an instructor in the 10th consecutive year of the military and political training class in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, and served as an officer in the political training department of the Fifth Regiment of the Shanxi Kuomintang Army officers, engaged in the tasks assigned by the party.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in October 1937, he served as the head of the Democracy Movement Unit of the Political Department of the Second Brigade of the First Column of the Taiyue District Anti-Japanese Death Squad, and was actively engaged in the education of the democracy movement and the work of consolidating and developing the anti-Japanese base areas. In August 1938, he served as the secretary of the political office of the first column of the decisive death in Taiyue District, and engaged in secretarial work with Bo Yibo, the leader of the column. In January 1939, he served as the head of the Propaganda and Education Unit of the Political Department of the Second Corps of the Decisive Column and the head of the Organization Unit of the Political Department of the Third Corps. In December of the same year, the Kuomintang diehards launched the first anti-communist upsurge, and Yan Xishan and the Kuomintang diehards gathered heavy troops to launch the "December Incident" in the western, northwestern, and southeastern Shanxi provinces to attack the first, second, third, and fourth columns and the Eighth Route Army. During the incident, the Eighth Route Army and the Anti-Japanese Death Squad fought back and smashed the attack of the Kuomintang diehards. Zhang Ziming actively participated in the anti-recalcitrant battle during the incident. In January 1940, he served as a political instructor of the 2nd Battalion of the 25th Regiment of the Taiyue District Death Squad, and in June of the same year, he served as the secretary of the general party branch and deputy director of the Political Department of the Political Office of the 25th Regiment, and participated in the "Battle of the Hundred Regiments". In January 1942, he entered the Party School of the Northern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Taihang and served as the head of the study group. In the course of study, he conscientiously linked himself with reality, criticized the ideological methods of dogmatism and subjectivism, and also made ideological reflection, which was praised by the party school. During his studies at the Party School, he participated in the Taihang May anti-"sweep". In March 1943, he served as the director of the Political Department of the 772nd Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and in June 1944, he served as the director of the District Committee of the Communist Party of China in Taiyue District to carry out rectification studies. After the rectification in June 1945, he served as the director of the Political Department of the 772nd Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the Taiyue Military Region, and was wounded in the battle to recover Pingyao.
During the Liberation War, in September 1945, he served as the political commissar of the 772nd Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the Taiyue Military Region, and led his troops to participate in the Shangdang Campaign and the Tongpu Campaign. In August 1947, he served as the political commissar of the 28th Regiment of the 10th Brigade of the Fourth Column of Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan, and led his troops to participate in the Luliang Campaign, the Jinnan Campaign, and the campaign to break through the Yellow River and march into western Henan. In March 1948, he served as the deputy commander of the 17th Division of the 38th Army of the Northwest Democratic Alliance Army and participated in the Huaihai Campaign. In February 1949, he served as the political commissar of the 42nd Division of the 14th Army of the Fourth Corps of the Second Field Army, and led his troops to participate in major battles such as crossing the Yangtze River, Gyeongju, and Qinzhou, as well as chasing and annihilating the Bai Chongxi group of the Kuomintang Army, marching into Guangxi, and liberating Yunnan.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in February 1950, he concurrently served as secretary of the Lijiang Prefectural CPC Committee of Yunnan Province; in accordance with Chairman Mao Zedong's instructions that the People's Liberation Army was both a combat team and a task force, it conscientiously implemented the party's ethnic policy in minority areas, led his troops to participate in the work of suppressing bandits, fighting against hegemony, reducing rents and returning detainees, collecting grain and supporting Tibet, and mobilizing the masses to build the party and build the party, thus consolidating the nascent people's political power. In March 1951, he served as the head of the Organization Department of the Political Department of the Third Corps of the Volunteer Army and participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. In the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Third Corps participated in the Fifth Campaign, the Summer Defensive Battle in 1951, the Autumn Counterattack in 1952, the Shangganling Campaign, and the Battle of Jincheng in July 1953. During the campaign, Zhang Ziming often went to the front line to understand the battle situation, summed up the combat experience, and promptly publicized the large number of heroic and exemplary figures who emerged in the battle, so as to boost the morale of the troops, fulfill their duties, and successfully complete the tasks assigned by the leaders. In May 1954, he served as Deputy Minister of Education, Director of Education and Director of School Affairs Department of the Military Engineering Academy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and Deputy Political Commissar of the Military Engineering College. During his 13 years of work at the Military Engineering Academy, he studied assiduously, worked hard to study the work of the academy, worked diligently, and cultivated a large number of popular and professional military engineering talents, thus making contributions to the construction of our army. In May 1967, he was appointed Deputy Political Commissar of the Kunming Military Region.
During the 10 years of turmoil of the "Cultural Revolution", Zhang Ziming was persecuted by Lin Biao and the "Gang of Four" counterrevolutionary clique, falsely accused of "having serious problems in history", being a "bad person", and "having a long-term and unusual relationship with Bo Yibo". On January 26, 1979, the Party Committee of the Kunming Military Region issued the "Decision on Completely Rehabilitating Comrade Zhang Ziming and Restoring His Reputation," and restored the reputation of the relatives of the recipients.
Zhang Ziming is open-minded and treats personal grievances correctly. In January 1979, he was appointed deputy political commissar of the Railway Corps, and in June of the same year, he was added to the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Railway Corps, in charge of education and ideological and political work in colleges and universities. Soon after he took office, he went to the Changsha Railway Military Academy and the Shijiazhuang Railway Military Engineering College to investigate and study, inspect the situation of education and the contingent of teachers, and did a great deal of fruitful work in the construction of the academies. In June 1979, the troops of the Fourth Division who went to the construction of the Tailan Railway conducted investigation and study, summed up their experience in ideological and political work in light of the characteristics of the railway troops, and guided the ideological and political construction of the troops. Concerned about the training of technical personnel of the army, at the "Red Flag Car Drivers" representative meeting held by the railway soldiers in December 1981, the meeting was guided to conscientiously sum up experience, promote the training of technical experts, and achieve good results in safe driving. During his tenure, he was conscientious in the work he was in charge of. In December 1983, the Railway Corps was merged into the Ministry of Railways. From January to December 1984, he served as deputy head and head of the Central Military Commission's liaison group for party rectification in the Shenyang Military Region, resolutely implementing the spirit of the relevant instructions on party rectification, respecting the leadership of the party committee of the military region, meeting each other with sincerity, harmonious relations, and smooth work, and successfully completing the tasks assigned by the Central Military Commission. He left his post in January 1987 to recuperate.
Zhang Ziming was promoted to the rank of major general in 1961 and was awarded the Order of Independence and Freedom of the Second Class, the Order of Liberation of the Second Class, and the Meritorious Medal of the Red Star of the First Class in 1988. He died in Beijing on June 23, 1991 at the age of 73.
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