Today, we deeply mourn Comrade Ma Mingfang, member of the Eighth Central Committee of our party and former third secretary of the Northeast Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, with great sadness. Comrade Ma Mingfang was brutally persecuted and tortured by Lin Biao and the "Gang of Four" for a long time. Unfortunately, he died on August 13, 1974 at the age of 69. Comrade Ma Mingfang is an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a long-tested and strong proletarian fighter of our party, and one of the founders and main leaders of the revolutionary base area in northern Shaanxi during the Red Army period.Comrade Ma Mingfang was born in Mizhi County, Shaanxi Province. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1925 and participated in revolutionary work in the same year.As early as when he was studying in Suide Normal University, he secretly participated in the underground work led by our party.During the Great Revolution, he was appointed by the party to work as a soldier in the Second Army of the Xi'an National Revolutionary Army. In the autumn of 1927, he went to northern Shaanxi and served successively as secretary of the district party committee, secretary of the county party committee, acting secretary of the northern Shaanxi special committee, chairman of the Soviet government of northern Shaanxi province, and secretary of the northern Shaanxi provincial party committee.When Comrade Ma Mingfang returned to northern Shaanxi, the great revolution had failed and the revolution had entered a low ebb, and our party was in a critical juncture.With the strong will and revolutionary courage of the Communists, he studied and adhered to the correct line of the party represented by Comrade Mao Zedong while being far away from the Central Committee. Together with Liu Zhidan and other comrades, he went deep into the countryside, restored the organization, mobilized the masses, and developed land The revolution and the strengthening of the Red Army dealt a heavy blow to the reactionary arrogance of the landlords and gentry, developed the peasant movement in northern Shaanxi, and established and consolidated the revolutionary base in northern Shaanxi.

In 1941, Comrade Ma Mingfang returned to China after studying in the Soviet Union. He was placed under house arrest by the reactionary warlord Sheng Shicai when he passed through Xinjiang. In 1943, he was arrested again and sent to prison.In prison, Comrade Ma Mingfang always insisted on spreading the merits of the Eighth Route Army in the War of Resistance, expressed his belief that communism would not change, and firmly demanded to return to Yan'an.Withstood torture, withstood coercion and temptation, participated in leading the work of the party in prison, and unyieldingly fought heroically against the enemy, showing the lofty revolutionary integrity of a Communist. In 1945, the "Double Ten Agreement" was published. After many negotiations and struggles by Comrade Zhou Enlai, the Kuomintang was forced to release Ma Mingfang and other comrades back to Yan'an in June 1946.He was warmly welcomed and congratulated by the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao Commander-in-Chief Zhu.Comrade Ma Mingfang was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee at the Seventh Congress of the Party and served as deputy secretary of the Northwest Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

After liberation, Comrade Ma Mingfang successively served as Secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial Government, Third Secretary of the Northwest Bureau, Vice Chairman of the Northwest Administrative Committee, Deputy Political Commissar of the Northwest Military Region, Deputy Director of the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Deputy Secretary-General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Minister of Finance and Trade, and the Northeast Bureau The third secretary and so on.He was elected as a member of the Central Committee at the Eighth National Congress of the Party, and a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress at the First and Second National People's Congresses.In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Comrade Ma Mingfang correctly implemented the party's principles and policies during the work of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee and the Northwest Bureau, from the land reform to the three major transformations, and made the political and economic development of the Northwest region continue to win. In the autumn of 1954, Comrade Ma Mingfang went to the central government to work.After our country entered the period of socialist construction, he always advocated speeding up our country's socialist construction and building our country into a modern and powerful country as soon as possible.When he was in charge of financial and trade work in the Central and Northeast Bureaus, he paid attention to the development of production, cared about improving people's lives, and paid attention to the professional learning of cadres.He personally formulated a plan for training and improving cadres, and advocated that cadres should strive to become "experts" within a few years.During the "Four Cleanups" movement, he insisted on Comrade Mao Zedong's basic estimation of cadres and opposed talking about cadres in the dark.He pointed out: These cadres "did many good things for the masses and were respected and loved by the masses." It plays an important guiding role in surface sports.

During the "Cultural Revolution", Comrade Ma Mingfang stood firm and had a clear-cut stand.When Lin Biao, Kang Sheng, and the "Gang of Four" framed Premier Zhou in order to usurp the party and seize power, and attempted to label a group of revolutionary cadres imprisoned in Xinjiang prisons by the reactionary warlord Sheng Shicai as traitors, he was unyielding and stubborn in the face of the counter-revolutionary power. , To defend the interests of the party, fight to the last breath of life. In the long-term revolutionary struggle of more than 50 years, Comrade Ma Mingfang has made great contributions to the liberation of the Chinese people, the cause of socialist revolution and socialist construction.His death caused our party to lose a veteran, which is a great loss for our party.We deeply mourn Comrade Ma Mingfang, and we must learn from his infinite loyalty to the party and the people, his love for Comrade Mao Zedong, Comrade Zhou Enlai and Comrade Zhu De, and his lifelong loyalty to the cause of the party; Stand firm, selfless and fearless, open and aboveboard, and dare to fight the revolutionary spirit; learn from his work attitude of earnestly reading and studying, integrating theory with practice, in-depth investigation and research, seeking truth from facts, rigorous style, and focusing on efficiency; Integrity and honesty, close ties with the masses, strict self-responsibility, lenient treatment of others, and a fine style of self-criticism.We must turn grief into strength, under the leadership of the Party Central Committee, conscientiously implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee and the Second Session of the Fifth National People's Congress, and strive to build our country into a modern socialist power!