During the War of Liberation, he served successively as political commissar of the second column of the field army in the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Liberated Area, head of the organization department of the Central Committee Bureau in the same area, third deputy political commissar of the East China Field Army, secretary of the Henan-Anhui-Jiangsu Sub-Bureau of the Central Committee, Secretary of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee, deputy secretary of the Nanjing city Party committee, political commissar of the Fourth Army Group, and Secretary of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee.

Beginning in 1952, he was First Deputy Secretary of the Southwest China Bureau of the Party Central Committee and Deputy Political Commissar of the Southwest China Military Command. After 1954, he successively served as deputy director of the general cadre department of the Military Commission, Deputy Secretary-General of the Party Central Committee, Minister of the Second Ministry of Machine-Building, First Secretary of the Northeast China Bureau of the Party Central Committee, and First Political Commissar of the Shenyang Units.

After 1977, he was Minister of the Seventh Ministry of Machine-Building and Head of the Organization Department of the Party Central Committee. He was elected Vice-Chairman of the Fourth and Fifth National Committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

He was elected an Alternate Member of the Seventh Party Central Committee and a Member of the Eighth Party Central Committee. At the 11th Plenary Session of the Eighth Party Central Committee, he was elected an additional Alternate Member of the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee. He was elected an additional Member of the Party Central Committee at the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Party Central Committee.

Yu Qiuli

Born in 1914 in Jian County, Jiangxi Province, he joined the Communist Youth League in 1929 and the Communist Party in 1931. He took part in the 12,500kilometre Long March.

During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he was Political Commissar and later Commander of the Third Detachment of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army, a regimental political commissar, regimental commander, and political commissar of the 358th Brigade. Fighting guerrilla warfare on the plains of central Hebei Province, he participated in establishing a base area.

During the War of Liberation, he took part in all the major campaigns in defence of Yanan where the then headquarters of the Party Central Committee was located.

After nationwide liberation, he served successively as Deputy Political Commissar of the Southwest China Military and Political Academy, Commandant and Political Commissar of the Second Advanced Infantry Academy, Director and Political Commissar of the Logistics Department of the Southwest China Military Area, Director of the General Financial Department of the Military Commission of the Party Central Committee, and Political Commissar of the General Logistics Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. In 1958, he was Minister of the Petroleum Industry and participated in and organized the efforts to open up the Daqing Oilfield. Later, he served as Minister in Charge of the State Planning Commission and Vice-Premier of the State Council.

He was elected a Member of the Ninth, Tenth and 11th Party Central Committees and a Member of the Political Bureau of the 11th Party Central Committee.

Yang Dezhi

Born in 1910 in Zhuzhou, Hunan Province, he joined the Communist Party in 1928. He successively held the posts of platoon and company leader, regimental and divisional commander, commander of the second column of the 18th Army Group, Commander of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Area, Commander of the First Column of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Area, Commander of the Second Column of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Area, Commander of the Field Army in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Area, Commander of the 19th Army Group and concurrently Commander of the Shaanxi Provincial Military Area, Deputy Commander and then Commander of the Chinese People's Volunteers to Aid Korea and Resist U.S. Aggression, Commander of the Jinan Units of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, First Secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee, Commander of the P.L.A. Wuhan Units, Commander of the P.L.A. Kunming Units and Vice-Minister of National Defence.

He took part in the 12,500-kilometre Long March and led his troops in the well-known 1935 Dadu River battle in which the Red Army fought its way across a hanging bridge in the teeth of heavy enemy fire. During the war against Japanese aggression and the War of Liberation, he took part in many major campaigns including the Pingxing Pass Battle of 1937, in which the Chinese people won the first major victory after the Japanese invasion, wiping out the main force of a Japanese division, and the Beiping-Tianjin Campaign of 1948 which brought the liberation of the two cities.

In the years following 1950 he took part and led the War to Aid Korea and Resist U.S. Aggression.

He was elected an Alternate Member of the Eighth Party Central Committee, and Member of the Ninth, Tenth and 11th Party Central Committees.

Hu Qiaomu

Born in 1912 in Yancheng County, Jiangsu Province, he joined the Communist Youth League in 1930 in Beiping and became a Party member in 1935 in Shanghai. While in Beiping, he served as a member of the City Committee of the Communist Youth League and director of its propaganda department and helped lead the students' and workers' patriotic movement following the September 18, 1931 incident which led to Japan's occupation of northeast China. While in Shanghai he took part in organizing and directing the Left-wing cultural movement and in directing the Party's underground work in the city. He was an important leader of the Party's work against Japanese aggression and for national salvation. He served as secretary of the Council of the General League of Left-Wing Culture and was a member of the City Provisional Party Working Committee.

He arrived in Yanan in 1937 and served as a member of the Youth Work Committee of the Central Committee. In the years following 1941 he served as Comrade Mao Ze-dong's secretary and was Secretary of the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee, drafting the "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party" and some other documents and a number of commentaries for the Party Central Committee.

He was appointed Director of the Xinhua News Agency in 1948, Director of the Press Administration in 1949, Deputy Head of the Propaganda Department of the C.P.C. Central Committee in 1950 and Deputy Secretary-General of the C.P.C. Central Committee in 1954. He was elected an Alternate Member of the Secretariat of the Party Central Committee in 1956. He took part in drafting the 1954 Constitution of the People's Republic of China and the major documents of the Eighth National Congress of the Party in 1956 and some other documents. He also took part in editing the Selected Works of Mao Zedong. He wrote The 30 Years of the Communist Party of China and a number of commentaries. He was a member of the Delegation of the Chinese Communist Party to the Soviet Union in 1956, 1957 and 1960, playing an active role in the struggle against Soviet revisionism.

He was appointed President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1977 and director of the Office of the Committee for the Editing and Publication of the Works of Comrade Mao Zedong in 1979.

He was elected a Member of the Eighth and 11th Party Central Committees.

Yao Yilin

Born in 1917 in Guichi County, Anhui Province, he joined the Communist Party of China in 1935. In the 1935 December 9th Student Movement, he was secretary of the Party Fraction in the Beiping Student Union. Later transferred to Tianjin, he was Head of the Propaganda Department of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee and led the students' movement.

During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he did underground Party work, serving as Secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee, Secretary-General and Head of the Propaganda Department of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee. He later took part in the armed uprising in eastern Hebei Province and served as Head of the Propaganda Department of the Hebei-Rehe-Chahar Regional Party Committee and Secretary-General of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Sub-Bureau and Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Bureau of the Central Committee Bureau. On the eve of nationwide liberation, he was Head of the Industry and Commerce Department of the North China People's Government.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was Vice-Minister of Trade, Deputy Director of the Office of Finance and Trade of the State Council, Minister of Commerce, and Director of the Department of Political Work in the Financial and Trade Ministries.

He is Deputy Secretary-General of the C.P.C. Central Committee and Head of the General Office of the C.P.C. Central Committee, Secretary-General of the Financial and Economic Commission under the State Council and Vice-Premier of the State Council.

He was elected an Alternate Member of the Eighth and Tenth Party Central Committees and Member of the 11th Party Central Committee.

Peng Chong

Born in 1915 in Zhang-zhou of Fujian Province, he joined the Communist Youth League in 1933 and became a member of the Communist Party of China in 1934. At the beginning of the 1930s. he engaged in underground Party work, helped lead the student movement in the Zhangzhou area, and served as Head of the Organization Department and secretary of the committee for work among the workers.

During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he took part in building some base areas in southern Jiangsu. During the liberation war, he was political commissar of a regiment and deputy political commissar of a division.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was Head of the United Front Work Department of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, Deputy Head of the United Front Work Department of the East China Bureau of the Party Central Committee, first secretary of the Nanjing city Party committee and mayor of Nanjing, and Secretary and First Secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee.

After the downfall of the gang of four, he was transferred to Shanghai and has served as First Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Mayor of Shanghai, Second Political Commissar of the Nanjing Units of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and Vice-Chairman of the Fifth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

He was elected an Alternate Member of the Ninth and Tenth Party Central Committees, a Member of the 11th Party Central Committee and a Member of. its Political Bureau.