China has a cultural history of five thousand years. After thousands of years of development and evolution, it has formed many ancient civilized cities. It is also a place that the Chinese people yearn for. As an important economic zone in northern China, the two cities of Beijing and Tianjin carry the cultural and economic lifeline of China, and their influence has been the most profound especially in modern times.
In many film and television dramas, we can often see pictures of the prosperity of Tianjin. Coupled with the integration of Chinese and Western cultures, today's Tianjin was born. In addition, Tianjin also has a huge port, and its annual import and export trade can bring a large amount of fiscal revenue to the country.
Therefore, since modern times, Tianjin has become a battleground for military strategists. Western powers have forcibly occupied the territory here and monopolized most of the high-quality resources. It was not until the War of Liberation that Tianjin was freed from the control of bureaucratic capital and returned to the ownership of the Chinese people. But after the People's Liberation Army went south, the party was very worried about the liberation work in the rear, so it sent some outstanding leaders to take charge of the work. Today we are going to talk about the first mayor of Tianjin in New China.
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The first mayor of Tianjin was named Huang Jing, but this was his pseudonym. His real name was Yu Qiwei, and he was born into a prominent family in Zhejiang. It is said that Yu Qiwei's grandfather was a minister of the Qing Dynasty. He had extremely high power and status in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and thus cultivated many outstanding children.
Yu Qiwei’s father, Yu Dachun, went to Germany to study. After returning to China, he became a senior government official under the arrangement of his family, allowing Yu Qiwei to live a life of fine clothing and fine food since he was a child. Under the arrangement of his parents, Yu Qiwei came to study in the best school in Tianjin. At the same time, they placed great expectations on him, hoping that he could become an elite and inherit his father's status and wealth in the future.
As he grew older, Yu Qiwei learned a lot of advanced knowledge and saw the scene of warlords fighting, and began to doubt his parents' teachings. Yu Qiwei began to worry about the country and its people, and thought about the fate of the country and nation. During this confused period, his sister Yu Shan pointed the way for him.
Yu Shan had been exposed to revolutionary ideas. She privately gave progressive books to her younger brother to help him answer his questions. It can be said that Yu Shan was the leader of Yu Qiwei's revolution. Since then, Yu Qiwei has established lofty revolutionary ideals and worked hard for them.
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Under the guidance of his sister, Yu Qiwei came to Shanghai to study and live. He joined a progressive organization formed by progressive students and carried out demonstrations privately. As a result, he was hunted down by Shanghai's reactionary forces. In order to avoid arrest, Yu Qiwei moved to Qingdao . Through his own efforts, he was admitted to the physics department of Qingdao University. He continued to engage in progressive movements and encouraged more students to participate in strikes and demonstrations.
Soon the party organization noticed Yu Qiwei's outstanding performance. Yu Qiwei was invited to become a member of the party organization and served as the director of the Propaganda Department of the Qingdao Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China. In order to facilitate the launch of the revolutionary movement, Yu Qiwei gave himself the pseudonym "Huang Jing".
After becoming a cadre of the party organization, Huang Jing's passion for revolution became more and more intense. At the critical moment, Huang Jing was betrayed by a traitor and his whereabouts were exposed, and he was immediately arrested and imprisoned. Huang Jing suffered inhuman torture in prison. When the Yu family heard about it, they quickly used their connections to rescue him from prison, but this did not extinguish Huang Jing's revolutionary belief. After being released from prison, Huang Jing came to Peking to participate in the 129th March Demonstration Movement, which caused Peiping to burst out with a stronger revolutionary light and made significant contributions to the revolutionary cause.
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During the Anti-Japanese War , Huang Jing was busy working all day long and lacked rest, which caused the recurrence of old diseases. In order to work, Huang Jing endured it again and again, and finally fell ill due to overwork. His superiors forcibly sent him to Yan'an to recuperate, fearing that he would damage his health due to work.
During the War of Liberation, Huang Jing returned to the revolutionary front and participated in the major battle to liberate Tianjin. Because of his outstanding contributions, he was appointed as the first mayor of Tianjin. After becoming the mayor of Tianjin, Huang Jing went deep into the grassroots to investigate the development situation, and personally met with private entrepreneurs to ensure their vigorous development of industry and commerce, which greatly stimulated the enthusiasm for the development of the industry and commerce industry.
In addition, Huang Jing also noticed that many poor families lived in shacks and the living conditions were extremely poor. Huang Jing led the people of Tianjin to carry out the construction of a series of public facilities, providing Tianjin citizens with more solid material support. Energy supplies such as water and electricity were restored in a short time, and Tianjin became orderly.
Later, when Huang Jing heard about Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan, he went to Chairman Mao and hoped that he could be lenient and deal with them leniently. However, the crimes committed by Liu Qingshan and Liu Qingshan were too heinous to convince the public if they were not punished. In the end, Chairman Mao decided to sentence them to death. Unfortunately, Huang Jing's old illness relapsed not long after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and he died of illness in 1958 at the age of 46.
Conclusion
After Huang Jing's death, his wife raised her son Yu Zhengsheng alone and taught him many philosophies of life. Yu Zhengsheng did not forget his father's glorious deeds and spirit. When he grew up, he also entered the political arena. He once served as chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and other important positions, reaching the national level.
