1952, British Army Marshal Montgomery Visited China, Prime Minister Zhou and Chen Yi specially invited Du Yuming to accompany. During the banquet, Montgomery asked Du Yuming: "Where is your million-strong army?" When Du Yuming smiled and said that he gave it to Chen Yi, the other party refuted him: "You are not that generous, we ate it in bites."
Du Yuming
Du Yuming
After Chen Yi's words, Du Yuming also expressed his approval afterwards, and the other half was defeated by the Kuomintang himself, and his meaning was that the Kuomintang lost the hearts of the people and the people chose the Communist Party.
After this, Du Yuming actively worked for the mainland and did a lot of things within his ability for the reunification of the motherland. But after his death, Taiwan and mainland China gave different attitudes.
The transformation from the Kuomintang to the Communist Party
Du Yuming became his capable backbone after following Chiang Kai-shek and was particularly valued. From 1928 to 1932, Du Yuming was successively promoted to lieutenant colonel captain, chief of staff, colonel commander, major general division commander.
, and he also made great contributions to famous battles such as Great Wall Anti-Japanese War , Shanghai Song Anti-Japanese War, and Kunlun Pass Battle . After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Du Yuming still followed Chiang Kai-shek to plan the civil war and served as the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Security Bureau and the deputy commander of the Northeast "Suppression Headquarters".
But Du Yuming was eventually defeated, and hundreds of thousands of Huangpu direct troops were destroyed, and he also became a prisoner of Su Yu and East China Field Army in this battle.
Du Yuming
After he was sent to the liberated area for education, and then went to the Gongdelin War Criminals Management Institute to renovate.
Although Du Yuming became a prisoner, he was well taken care of. At that time, he was not in good health. He suffered from chronic diseases such as gastric ulcer , tuberculosis , renal tuberculosis , and kidney tuberculosis . There are many dietary taboos. But in order to cure Du Yuming's illness, the administrators ate simple food by themselves, but gave him chicken, duck, fish and meat, and had a portion of milk every day.
And their life in prison is also very fulfilling. In addition to working, they can also read books every day. The books stipulated by the management include "Selected Works of Mao Zedong", "How Steel Is Tempered", " On Protracted War ", etc. They also require them to write reading notes based on their own experience after reading.
Du Yuming read "On Protracted War" written by Mao Zedong, wrote tens of thousands of words of reading notes and experience, and his thoughts also underwent some changes.
Du Yuming
even asked to send his letter to the commander of the 88th Army of the Kuomintang Ma Shigong , wanting him to stop immediately after reading his notes.
The letter said that after reading Chairman Mao’s works, they realized that the Communist Party is truly seeking benefits for the hard-working people, and coupled with the preferential treatment in life, Du Yuming earnestly revealed his experience in transformation.
At that time, Ma Shigong also served as deputy commander of the Kuomintang's Seventh Appeasement Zone and commander of the Wuhu Command Post. He was responsible for defending the Yangtze River defense line around Tongling , which was the crossing the river combat area of the People's Liberation Army's Third Field Army.
After receiving Du Yuming's letter, Ma Shigong suddenly resigned on the eve of Crossing the River Battle and left the command position, and the 27th Army led by Nie Fengzhi also landed as expected. Du Yuming made great contributions to this.
Du Yuming
In the War Criminal Management Office, he also served as the leader of the sewing team and sewed his own clothes. Under the care of the administrator, his body gradually became healthy.
When the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea broke out, Du Yuming was infected by the fearless spirit of the Communist Party. He said with emotion: "The Chinese people have indeed stood up under the leadership of the Communist Party."
Du Yuming's transformation in prison was effective. During this period, his thoughts also experienced great changes and were also the person with the greatest changes in the management office. Therefore, on December 4, 1959, Du Yuming, as the first batch of amnesty war criminals, was pardoned by Supreme People's Court.
Du Yuming
About this, he felt mixed emotions and realized that he had "not seen the red furnace for ten years, and he had left his loyalty to repay the people."
Since Du Yuming has been pardoned, where is his family?
reunion with his wife and daughter
After Du Yuming was captured, his wife Cao Xiuqing lived in Shanghai. At that time, she did not know about Du Yuming, but the Kuomintang told her that her husband had been killed by the Communist Party. Later, in order to trick him into Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek asked Cao Xiuqing to take his children and mother-in-law to Taiwan, and promised to be responsible for their family's living expenses and their children's tuition.
Cao Xiuqing
Chiang Kai-shek famously said that he wanted to help Du Yuming take care of them, but in fact it was to seize the hostages and prevent the Communist Party from using Du Yuming. Of course, Chiang Kai-shek's series of actions also made Du Yuming a little afraid.
But when Cao Xiuqing and others came to Taiwan, they found that Chiang Kai-shek's promise was not fulfilled at all, and a family of seven only gave them a little living expenses.
In the end, she had to find Song Mei-ling and Du Yuming's old subordinates, so she got a free position. However, Cao Xiuqing's bleak years did not end there. Her mother-in-law eventually died because of her desire for love, and her eldest son in the United States also committed suicide because of her life.
At that time, the eldest son Du Zhiren was unable to work in the United States due to illness, so he asked his mother to find a solution. Cao Xiuqing found Chiang Kai-shek for help. Chiang Kai-shek granted 1,000 yuan, but the tuition fee was 3,000 yuan a year, which was far from enough.
Cao Xiuqing
Du Zhiren was very angry about this, thinking that his father had worked for Chiang Kai-shek for many years and did not fulfill his promise in the end. This made him very angry and eventually committed suicide by taking medicine.
Although Cao Xiuqing's life is gloomy, the worst is coming, and her daughter's marriage unexpectedly changed her situation.
Du Yuming's eldest daughter Du Zhili went to the United States to study alone. In 1949, while eating in a restaurant, he happened to meet Yang Zhenning . Before that, when Yang Zhenning graduated from the Southwest Associated University Research Institute, he was a student in his class after graduating from the United Nations University. Unexpectedly, many years later, the two of them could meet on the streets of the United States, and the teachers and students met, which was particularly intimate.
Yang Zhenning was also very concerned about the Du brothers. During the relationship, the two developed feelings for each other and decided to get married in the United States in 1950.
Yang Zhenning and Du Zhili
Due to the United States launching the Korean War, Sino-US relations are tense, and Yang Zhenning and his wife also thought Du Yuming was killed. It was not until 1955 to 1956 that Du Yuming entrusted the ambassador to the United Kingdom to pass on the letter to Yang Zhenning, and Du Zhili learned that his father was still in the world.
In 1957, when Yang Zhenning won the Nobel Prize in Physics, Premier Zhou immediately decided to send a delegation of Chinese scientists to Sweden to congratulate. It is said that the delegation is actually two people, namely Yang Zhenning’s teacher Zhang Wenyu and his wife Wang Chengshu .
Before leaving, they met with Du Yuming according to Zhou Enlai's instructions and asked him to bring a letter of congratulations to Yang Zhenning as his father-in-law.
Yang Zhenning also wrote back to Du Yuming, in which he expressed his father-in-law's care that moved him.
Yang Zhenning
Of course, Yang Zhenning won the award, and Taiwan also paid great attention. Chiang Kai-shek personally asked Cao Xiuqing to fight for Yang Zhenning to come to Taiwan.
During the conversation, Cao Xiuqing expressed his willingness to serve Yang Zhenning back to Taiwan. In this way, Cao Xiuqing fled Taiwan by chance. At that time, when Cao Xiuqing left the country, Chiang Kai-shek had multiple restrictions on her and also stipulated a period of six months.
But after Cao Xiuqing arrived in the United States, when she lived at her son-in-law's house, the first thing she did was to refund the return ticket. This action also shows that she had no intention of returning to Taiwan at that time.
When Cao Xiuqing came to the United States a year after he received the news that Du Yuming was released from prison, he was ecstatic, but at the same time he fell into deep contradictions.
On one side are four children of Taiwan and on the other side are husbands of mainland China. How can she choose? After a year of consideration, Cao Xiuqing decided to return to the mainland to reunite with her husband.
1952, British Army Marshal Montgomery Visited China, Prime Minister Zhou and Chen Yi specially invited Du Yuming to accompany. During the banquet, Montgomery asked Du Yuming: "Where is your million-strong army?" When Du Yuming smiled and said that he gave it to Chen Yi, the other party refuted him: "You are not that generous, we ate it in bites."
Du Yuming
Du Yuming
After Chen Yi's words, Du Yuming also expressed his approval afterwards, and the other half was defeated by the Kuomintang himself, and his meaning was that the Kuomintang lost the hearts of the people and the people chose the Communist Party.
After this, Du Yuming actively worked for the mainland and did a lot of things within his ability for the reunification of the motherland. But after his death, Taiwan and mainland China gave different attitudes.
The transformation from the Kuomintang to the Communist Party
Du Yuming became his capable backbone after following Chiang Kai-shek and was particularly valued. From 1928 to 1932, Du Yuming was successively promoted to lieutenant colonel captain, chief of staff, colonel commander, major general division commander.
, and he also made great contributions to famous battles such as Great Wall Anti-Japanese War , Shanghai Song Anti-Japanese War, and Kunlun Pass Battle . After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Du Yuming still followed Chiang Kai-shek to plan the civil war and served as the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Security Bureau and the deputy commander of the Northeast "Suppression Headquarters".
But Du Yuming was eventually defeated, and hundreds of thousands of Huangpu direct troops were destroyed, and he also became a prisoner of Su Yu and East China Field Army in this battle.
Du Yuming
After he was sent to the liberated area for education, and then went to the Gongdelin War Criminals Management Institute to renovate.
Although Du Yuming became a prisoner, he was well taken care of. At that time, he was not in good health. He suffered from chronic diseases such as gastric ulcer , tuberculosis , renal tuberculosis , and kidney tuberculosis . There are many dietary taboos. But in order to cure Du Yuming's illness, the administrators ate simple food by themselves, but gave him chicken, duck, fish and meat, and had a portion of milk every day.
And their life in prison is also very fulfilling. In addition to working, they can also read books every day. The books stipulated by the management include "Selected Works of Mao Zedong", "How Steel Is Tempered", " On Protracted War ", etc. They also require them to write reading notes based on their own experience after reading.
Du Yuming read "On Protracted War" written by Mao Zedong, wrote tens of thousands of words of reading notes and experience, and his thoughts also underwent some changes.
Du Yuming
even asked to send his letter to the commander of the 88th Army of the Kuomintang Ma Shigong , wanting him to stop immediately after reading his notes.
The letter said that after reading Chairman Mao’s works, they realized that the Communist Party is truly seeking benefits for the hard-working people, and coupled with the preferential treatment in life, Du Yuming earnestly revealed his experience in transformation.
At that time, Ma Shigong also served as deputy commander of the Kuomintang's Seventh Appeasement Zone and commander of the Wuhu Command Post. He was responsible for defending the Yangtze River defense line around Tongling , which was the crossing the river combat area of the People's Liberation Army's Third Field Army.
After receiving Du Yuming's letter, Ma Shigong suddenly resigned on the eve of Crossing the River Battle and left the command position, and the 27th Army led by Nie Fengzhi also landed as expected. Du Yuming made great contributions to this.
Du Yuming
In the War Criminal Management Office, he also served as the leader of the sewing team and sewed his own clothes. Under the care of the administrator, his body gradually became healthy.
When the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea broke out, Du Yuming was infected by the fearless spirit of the Communist Party. He said with emotion: "The Chinese people have indeed stood up under the leadership of the Communist Party."
Du Yuming's transformation in prison was effective. During this period, his thoughts also experienced great changes and were also the person with the greatest changes in the management office. Therefore, on December 4, 1959, Du Yuming, as the first batch of amnesty war criminals, was pardoned by Supreme People's Court.
Du Yuming
About this, he felt mixed emotions and realized that he had "not seen the red furnace for ten years, and he had left his loyalty to repay the people."
Since Du Yuming has been pardoned, where is his family?
reunion with his wife and daughter
After Du Yuming was captured, his wife Cao Xiuqing lived in Shanghai. At that time, she did not know about Du Yuming, but the Kuomintang told her that her husband had been killed by the Communist Party. Later, in order to trick him into Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek asked Cao Xiuqing to take his children and mother-in-law to Taiwan, and promised to be responsible for their family's living expenses and their children's tuition.
Cao Xiuqing
Chiang Kai-shek famously said that he wanted to help Du Yuming take care of them, but in fact it was to seize the hostages and prevent the Communist Party from using Du Yuming. Of course, Chiang Kai-shek's series of actions also made Du Yuming a little afraid.
But when Cao Xiuqing and others came to Taiwan, they found that Chiang Kai-shek's promise was not fulfilled at all, and a family of seven only gave them a little living expenses.
In the end, she had to find Song Mei-ling and Du Yuming's old subordinates, so she got a free position. However, Cao Xiuqing's bleak years did not end there. Her mother-in-law eventually died because of her desire for love, and her eldest son in the United States also committed suicide because of her life.
At that time, the eldest son Du Zhiren was unable to work in the United States due to illness, so he asked his mother to find a solution. Cao Xiuqing found Chiang Kai-shek for help. Chiang Kai-shek granted 1,000 yuan, but the tuition fee was 3,000 yuan a year, which was far from enough.
Cao Xiuqing
Du Zhiren was very angry about this, thinking that his father had worked for Chiang Kai-shek for many years and did not fulfill his promise in the end. This made him very angry and eventually committed suicide by taking medicine.
Although Cao Xiuqing's life is gloomy, the worst is coming, and her daughter's marriage unexpectedly changed her situation.
Du Yuming's eldest daughter Du Zhili went to the United States to study alone. In 1949, while eating in a restaurant, he happened to meet Yang Zhenning . Before that, when Yang Zhenning graduated from the Southwest Associated University Research Institute, he was a student in his class after graduating from the United Nations University. Unexpectedly, many years later, the two of them could meet on the streets of the United States, and the teachers and students met, which was particularly intimate.
Yang Zhenning was also very concerned about the Du brothers. During the relationship, the two developed feelings for each other and decided to get married in the United States in 1950.
Yang Zhenning and Du Zhili
Due to the United States launching the Korean War, Sino-US relations are tense, and Yang Zhenning and his wife also thought Du Yuming was killed. It was not until 1955 to 1956 that Du Yuming entrusted the ambassador to the United Kingdom to pass on the letter to Yang Zhenning, and Du Zhili learned that his father was still in the world.
In 1957, when Yang Zhenning won the Nobel Prize in Physics, Premier Zhou immediately decided to send a delegation of Chinese scientists to Sweden to congratulate. It is said that the delegation is actually two people, namely Yang Zhenning’s teacher Zhang Wenyu and his wife Wang Chengshu .
Before leaving, they met with Du Yuming according to Zhou Enlai's instructions and asked him to bring a letter of congratulations to Yang Zhenning as his father-in-law.
Yang Zhenning also wrote back to Du Yuming, in which he expressed his father-in-law's care that moved him.
Yang Zhenning
Of course, Yang Zhenning won the award, and Taiwan also paid great attention. Chiang Kai-shek personally asked Cao Xiuqing to fight for Yang Zhenning to come to Taiwan.
During the conversation, Cao Xiuqing expressed his willingness to serve Yang Zhenning back to Taiwan. In this way, Cao Xiuqing fled Taiwan by chance. At that time, when Cao Xiuqing left the country, Chiang Kai-shek had multiple restrictions on her and also stipulated a period of six months.
But after Cao Xiuqing arrived in the United States, when she lived at her son-in-law's house, the first thing she did was to refund the return ticket. This action also shows that she had no intention of returning to Taiwan at that time.
When Cao Xiuqing came to the United States a year after he received the news that Du Yuming was released from prison, he was ecstatic, but at the same time he fell into deep contradictions.
On one side are four children of Taiwan and on the other side are husbands of mainland China. How can she choose? After a year of consideration, Cao Xiuqing decided to return to the mainland to reunite with her husband.
Du Yuming, Cao Xiuqing,
Taiwanese are of course worried that she will go to the mainland, and have written letters many times to urge her to return to Taiwan. They know that once Cao Xiuqing decides to return to the mainland, there will be almost no chance to let Yang Zhenning return to Taiwan.
So Chiang Kai-shek sent someone to the United States to scare her. If you don’t know the situation in the mainland, you will regret it if you go there. But at this time, Cao Xiuqing seemed to have made up her mind. She said, "Du Yuming can live in Beijing, why can't I?"
Finally, Cao Xiuqing flew from the United States to Beijing under the arrangement of Yang Zhenning, and was warmly welcomed by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Not only after Cao Xiuqing arrived in the mainland, Yang Zhenning was also preparing to return to China to visit relatives. Since China and the United States were isolated from exchanges at that time, although Yang Zhenning's trip was just to visit relatives, it was also considered a "political event" and had a great international influence. Therefore, when Sino-US relations began to thaw, Yang Zhenning decided to return to China.
Yang Zhenning and his wife
After the motherland learned that Yang Zhenning was going back to China, she immediately expressed that the motherland opened its heart and welcomed Yang Zhenning to return from the ocean.
After Yang Zhenning returned to China, he was warmly received by Premier Zhou. At the same time, Yang Zhenning's relatives and Du Yuming and his wife were invited during the meal. Several people gathered together to chat and laugh, from science to family, from family to life.
Since then, in 1972 and 1973, Yang Zhenning would take his wife back to the motherland to visit Du Yuming every year, and would also be received by Premier Zhou.
In the summer of 1973, Yang Zhenning and his wife returned to China for the fourth time to visit their relatives. This time they returned to China, they also met Chairman Mao. Chairman Mao and Yang Zhenning took a photo and gave Yang Zhenning a photo afterwards. This photo has been hung in the reception room of Du Yuming's home.
Chairman Mao, Premier Zhou and Yang Zhenning
Later, Zhou Enlai hosted a banquet for Yang Zhenning and his wife in the Anhui Hall of the Great Hall of the People. They talked and laughed like a family. Du Zhili also joked with the Prime Minister:
"You are still boyish than girls. Yang Zhenning is from Anhui, and the banquet is set up in Anhui Hall. I am from Shaanxi!" Everyone laughed after hearing this.
Yang Zhenning's four return to China to visit relatives also opened the door to scientific exchanges between the motherland and internationally. Under his influence, hundreds of Chinese Americans returned to the motherland for visits.
Yang Zhenning and his father-in-law Du Yuming also have great influence overseas and have contributed to the reunification of the motherland. In Yang Zhenning's view, although his father-in-law made a lot of efforts to reunify the motherland, he still could not erase the fact that he had been an enemy of the Communist Party. However, when Du Yuming passed away, the content of the mainland obituary still surprised him.
Du Yuming passed away, Yang Zhenning: Mainland obituary I was surprised
htmlIn the late 1970s, Du Yuming was elected as a member of the National People's Congress and a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, actively working for the reunification of the motherland. He wrote articles at home and abroad, delivered speeches on radio, and advised his relatives and friends in Taiwan to reach the great cause of national reunification.
Du Yuming
He said:
"We have had long-term close relations with the power of the Kuomintang in Taiwan in the past. We have made contributions to Taiwan and have shown up to tell the principles and policies of the Party and the government in person. They can use them as a reference."
Of course, Yang Zhenning has also made a lot of contributions to the motherland.
In 1977, Yang Zhenning became the main person in charge of the "American Chinese Association", uniting overseas Chinese, actively carrying out activities to enhance Sino-US friendship and promote the reunification of the motherland.
On January 30, 1979, as chairman of the National Chinese Association, he also delivered a warm speech on the reunification of the motherland at a banquet that welcomed Deng Xiaoping to the United States.
At the same time, Yang Zhenning is also using his practical actions to support the development of the motherland's scientific education cause.
In the past 30 years, he has visited all key universities in China and served as honorary professors in nearly ten universities.
Yang Zhenning and his wife
In 1980, he initiated the establishment of the "Academic Exchange Committee with China" at the State University of New York, USA, and personally raised funds from entrepreneurs in the United States and Hong Kong to support scholars from the motherland to study and visit the school.
Under his efforts, he successively established the "Yilida Youth Award", " Wu Jianxiong Physics Award ", " Chen Shengshen Mathematics Award ", "Sunshan University Advanced Academic Research Center Foundation", and "South Kailai University Institute of Theoretical Physics".
On July 1, 1997, after Hong Kong returned to , Yang Zhenning immediately proposed to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to actively develop high-tech ideas and served as the chairman of the Hong Kong High-Level Committee, specifically responsible for designing Hong Kong as a high-tech invention center.
On May 25, 1997, in order to commend Yang Zhenning's contribution to the motherland, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government also named the asteroid 3421 discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory "Yang Zhenning Star".
1981 On May 7, 1981, Du Yuming died of kidney failure. Before his death, he made a will, and was still worried about the great cause of reunification of the motherland:
"I think deeply about it in critical illness, and I only care about it the most: I hope that my classmates, relatives, friends and compatriots in Taiwan should put national justice first, promote peaceful reunification as soon as possible, and jointly build our ancient civilization into a modern power, and benefit our descendants for the sake of our generation!"
After Du Yuming's death, Cao Xiuqing wanted to let the four children of Taiwan attend their father's funeral, but unexpectedly, Chiang Ching-kuo was not released, and Taiwan did not publish an obituary of Du Yuming's death.
Fortunately, after Yang Zhenning learned that his father-in-law had passed away, he immediately returned home day and night.
In order to get Yang Zhenning to catch up with Du Yuming's funeral, the leaders of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference decided to postpone Du Yuming's memorial service for half a month.
Yang Zhenning and Du Yuming
. After Yang Zhenning, who was far away from abroad, was extremely moved when he learned the news of his father-in-law's death.
On the night of his return to China, he revealed his thoughts on Huang Jiren , who wrote a biography for Du Yuming. He said:
"I saw the obituary of the official funeral committee of in the mainland, and was very surprised. The obituary of the father-in-law's past being an enemy of the Communist Party was not mentioned in the obituary, but instead called his father-in-law a patriot. This is also a lofty evaluation in the United States. So, I hope you can write this content in it."
When Yang Zhenning returned to China, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a funeral for Du Yuming as scheduled, and Deng Xiaoping, Deng Yingchao and others also attended the memorial service. At the memorial service, Deng Yingchao also thoughtfully comforted Cao Xiuqing: "Don't worry, the country will take care of you."
Yang Zhenning and Deng Yingchao at the funeral
At the same time, the Party Central Committee also highly praised Du Yuming:
Comrade Du Yuming is a patriot who supports the Communist Party of China and the socialist path. Comrade Du Yuming's transformation and progress are welcomed by the Communist Party of China and the Chinese people. "Although he has gone through a tortuous road, he has had a glorious second half of his life and has made his own contribution to the people's cause, and the people will miss him. "
Although Du Yuming did a lot of mistakes in his first half of his life, fortunately, he repented in time and did a lot of things within his ability in his later years. These contributions were enough to make up for the mistakes in his first half of his life. So whether for the party or for people, he had become a supporter of New China in the second half of his life, and those pasts had become the past.
is precisely our party's way of dealing with things that will make many Kuomintang generals willing to run for the reunification of the motherland after the pardon.
Cao Xiuqing
After Du Yuming's death, Cao Xiuqing was also added to a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference by the state, continuing the unfinished cause of her husband and contributing her own strength to the cause of reunification of the motherland.
Under his efforts, he successively established the "Yilida Youth Award", " Wu Jianxiong Physics Award ", " Chen Shengshen Mathematics Award ", "Sunshan University Advanced Academic Research Center Foundation", and "South Kailai University Institute of Theoretical Physics".
On July 1, 1997, after Hong Kong returned to , Yang Zhenning immediately proposed to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to actively develop high-tech ideas and served as the chairman of the Hong Kong High-Level Committee, specifically responsible for designing Hong Kong as a high-tech invention center.
On May 25, 1997, in order to commend Yang Zhenning's contribution to the motherland, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government also named the asteroid 3421 discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory "Yang Zhenning Star".
1981 On May 7, 1981, Du Yuming died of kidney failure. Before his death, he made a will, and was still worried about the great cause of reunification of the motherland:
"I think deeply about it in critical illness, and I only care about it the most: I hope that my classmates, relatives, friends and compatriots in Taiwan should put national justice first, promote peaceful reunification as soon as possible, and jointly build our ancient civilization into a modern power, and benefit our descendants for the sake of our generation!"
After Du Yuming's death, Cao Xiuqing wanted to let the four children of Taiwan attend their father's funeral, but unexpectedly, Chiang Ching-kuo was not released, and Taiwan did not publish an obituary of Du Yuming's death.
Fortunately, after Yang Zhenning learned that his father-in-law had passed away, he immediately returned home day and night.
In order to get Yang Zhenning to catch up with Du Yuming's funeral, the leaders of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference decided to postpone Du Yuming's memorial service for half a month.
Yang Zhenning and Du Yuming
. After Yang Zhenning, who was far away from abroad, was extremely moved when he learned the news of his father-in-law's death.
On the night of his return to China, he revealed his thoughts on Huang Jiren , who wrote a biography for Du Yuming. He said:
"I saw the obituary of the official funeral committee of in the mainland, and was very surprised. The obituary of the father-in-law's past being an enemy of the Communist Party was not mentioned in the obituary, but instead called his father-in-law a patriot. This is also a lofty evaluation in the United States. So, I hope you can write this content in it."
When Yang Zhenning returned to China, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a funeral for Du Yuming as scheduled, and Deng Xiaoping, Deng Yingchao and others also attended the memorial service. At the memorial service, Deng Yingchao also thoughtfully comforted Cao Xiuqing: "Don't worry, the country will take care of you."
Yang Zhenning and Deng Yingchao at the funeral
At the same time, the Party Central Committee also highly praised Du Yuming:
Comrade Du Yuming is a patriot who supports the Communist Party of China and the socialist path. Comrade Du Yuming's transformation and progress are welcomed by the Communist Party of China and the Chinese people. "Although he has gone through a tortuous road, he has had a glorious second half of his life and has made his own contribution to the people's cause, and the people will miss him. "
Although Du Yuming did a lot of mistakes in his first half of his life, fortunately, he repented in time and did a lot of things within his ability in his later years. These contributions were enough to make up for the mistakes in his first half of his life. So whether for the party or for people, he had become a supporter of New China in the second half of his life, and those pasts had become the past.
is precisely our party's way of dealing with things that will make many Kuomintang generals willing to run for the reunification of the motherland after the pardon.
Cao Xiuqing
After Du Yuming's death, Cao Xiuqing was also added to a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference by the state, continuing the unfinished cause of her husband and contributing her own strength to the cause of reunification of the motherland.
