Chapter 60 In the eyes of Zhou Enlai, "capable people"

Wu Jianmin was born in Chongqing at the end of March 1939. One month after his birth, the Japanese army and navy jointly carried out a tragic bombing of Chongqing, causing the "Chongqing Bombing" tragedy that shocked China and the world.In order to save her life, the mother hugged the frightened son and hid in the air-raid shelter under the rumbling artillery fire, and finally took two lives. When Wu Jianmin was 7 years old in Chongqing, he returned to his ancestral home in Nanjing, Jiangsu with his parents, and entered Nanchang Road Primary School in Nanjing. After graduating from primary school in 1951, he entered Nanjing No. 2 Middle School. In 1955, Beijing Foreign Studies University came to Nanjing to enroll students. Zhu Qingyi, the teacher in charge of the class, hoped that Wu Jianmin would apply for Beijing Foreign Studies University.At that time, "Beiwai" recruited students according to the requirements of military academies, and the requirements were very high, and Wu Jianmin wanted to apply for a university of science and engineering, so he was hesitant to enroll in "Beiwai".Under the repeated persuasion of his teacher Zhu Qingyi, Wu Jianmin took the exam of "Beiwai" and did not want to pass.

The predecessor of Beijing Foreign Languages ​​University was the Yan'an Foreign Languages ​​School founded on the basis of the Russian Language Brigade of the Third Branch of the Anti-Japanese University.It was established by the Communist Party of China in order to meet the needs of the development of the Anti-Japanese War situation. Since the founding of New China, it has been the main base for training foreign language talents, especially for foreign affairs translation. It was managed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at that time. In September 1961, after Wu Jianmin obtained a master's degree from the French Department of Beijing Foreign Studies University, he was assigned to the International Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and then sent to Hungary to replace Zhu Shanqing as the French interpreter of the Chinese permanent representative to the Democratic Youth Federation.At that time, he was only 22 years old. He was not only smart and studious, but also humble and willing to endure hardships. He was spotted by Han Kehua, the Chinese ambassador to Hungary who came later.

Han Kehua was once an outstanding underground member of the Communist Party of China. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he served as the deputy director of the Armed Forces Department of the Southern Hebei Military Region, and the deputy director of the Political Department of the Southern Military Region. In the autumn of 1963, when Han Kehua entered the research class of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, he learned that he was going to be transferred abroad to serve as an ambassador. The Provincial Party Committee wrote to decline.But when he returned to Wuhan after finishing his studies at the Party School, he immediately received an order to take up a post at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and became the Chinese ambassador to Hungary.

In order to transfer the young Wu Jianmin to work under him, Han Kehua sent a special report to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, hoping that the Ministry would coordinate with the Youth League Central Committee.The International Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League heard the news from nowhere, and sent a report to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the name of Hu Yaobang, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, requesting that Wu Jianmin be retained to work in the Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League.Chen Yi, then Vice Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State Council, had long heard that Wu Jianmin was a capable young man, so he secretly made up his mind: Neither Han Kehua nor the Youth League Central Committee could get Wu Jianmin, so I asked him to return to the Beijing Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Wu Jianmin worked in Budapest for 4 years. In 1965, Chen Yi was transferred back to China with a paper transfer order. He worked as an interpreter under Director Ma Muming of the Translation Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for 6 years.During this period, he had the honor to serve as the French interpreter for Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Chen Yi, Li Xiannian and other party and state leaders.