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During the ten years from 1927 to 1937, Ma Yinchu went south to Zhejiang, Nanjing, and Shanghai. As a financial and economic expert, he participated in the research on national financial and economic issues, searched for the crux of the problem, sought solutions, and fully protected the interests of the Chinese nation. From 1937 to 1945, Ma Yinchu continued to study China's financial economy as a financial and economic expert, analyzed the bureaucratic capital of the "Four Families" of Jiang, Song, Kong, and Chen, and wrote articles criticizing the "Four Families" who took advantage of the national crisis to make a fortune Windfall crimes.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Ma Yinchu supported the Anti-Japanese War and opposed the Kuomintang's non-resistance policy. In May 1939, Zhou Enlai and Wang Ruofei, who served as leaders in the Chongqing Office of the Eighth Route Army, met with Ma Yinchu, then dean and professor of the Business School of Chongqing University, in Chongqing.Zhou Enlai respected this Shaoxing native scholar who was 16 years older than himself, and he fully supported Ma Yinchu's idea of ​​imposing a temporary property tax for the War of Resistance.At the same time, Zhou Enlai analyzed the situation of the War of Resistance and the road that the Chinese revolution should take from the perspective of a statesman.This meeting became an important turning point in Ma Yinchu's life.Later, Ma Yinchu said many times in different occasions and articles: In the past, he was not with the Communist Party. After 1939, he gradually moved closer to the Chinese Communist Party and moved toward revolution.

After experiencing the corruption of the Kuomintang for many years, Ma Yinchu once said: "For the benefit of the country, I will definitely go with the Communist Party!" After the founding of New China, Ma Yinchu served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Central People's Government, director of the Finance and Economics Committee, vice chairman of the East China Military and Political Committee, and president of Zhejiang University. In June 1951, he became the president of Peking University.This old man who has suffered a lot of hardships has great love for the new China and has one heart and one mind with the Communist Party.The three children of Ma Yinchu's son Ma Benchu ​​were all named after their grandfather, the granddaughter was named Sirun, the eldest grandson was named Size, and the second grandson was named Sidong.The three names all contain admiration and trust for Mao Zedong.