In 1958, Chairman Mao personally proposed to establish our party’s theoretical journal, “Red Flag”. This journal had a profound influence in the 1950s and 1970s, and many famous theoretical articles were first published in “Red Flag”.

In 1958, Chairman Mao personally proposed to establish our party’s theoretical publication “ Red Flag ”. This publication had a profound impact in the 1950s and 1970s, and many famous theoretical articles were first published in “Red Flag”. When founding the magazine "Red Flag", Chairman Mao personally drafted the editorial board. These editorial boards were basically famous "pens" at the time. For example, the person we are going to talk about today was one of the editorial boards formulated by Chairman Mao when the magazine "Red Flag" was founded. Later, he also served as the executive deputy editor-in-chief of "Red Flag".

This person is Fan Ruoyu . Fan Ruoyu was born in 1912 and is from Wuzhai, Shanxi. In his early years, Fan Ruoyu mainly studied in his hometown. After he grew up a little, he went to Pei . While studying in Peking, Fan Ruoyu experienced the 918th Incident and joined the Anti-Imperialist Alliance after the 918th Incident and began to participate in revolutionary activities under the leadership of our party.

In 1933, Fan Ruoyu officially became a party member. After that, he returned to his hometown and was ordered to spread Marxism-Leninism in his hometown and promote the revolutionary thoughts of our party. In 1937, after the July 7 Incident, the Anti-Japanese War broke out in full swing. Many aspiring young people rushed to the revolutionary holy land of Yan'an and devoted themselves to the anti-Japanese and national salvation action. Fan Ruoyu also arrived in Yan'an in 1938 and entered the Marxist-Leninist Academy in Yan'an. After graduation, he stayed in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Government and engaged in revolutionary propaganda work for a long time. Under the leadership of our party, he witnessed the birth of the New China.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Fan Ruoyu entered the Central Party School and continued to engage in theoretical research. In 1956, he was transferred to Premier Zhou's office and served as Premier Zhou's secretary. Soon after, he also served as Liu Shaoqi's secretary, mainly assisting the two leaders in the drafting of documents and other aspects. Fan Ruoyu has solid writing skills and was highly valued by Premier Zhou and Liu Shaoqi during his tenure. He is their right-hand assistant. At the same time, Fan Ruoyu was promoted to vice president of the Central Party School, becoming an authoritative expert in theoretical propaganda.

However, after the beginning of the special period of ten years, Fan Ruoyu was also persecuted. In June 1966, Xie Fuzhi, then Minister of Public Security, falsely accused Fan Ruoyu of being a "spy" who invaded our party, and was also a "international spy", waiting for an opportunity to steal important information from our party. Against this background, Fan Ruoyu was suspended from work and under review.

During the censorship stage, Xie Fuzhi continued to frame Fan Ruoyu and forced Fan Ruoyu to admit that he was "informed with foreign countries" and was suspected of "spy agents". Fan Ruoyu was difficult to tell the difference, and even if he complained in every way, he was rejected by Xie Fuzhi. However, Fan Ruoyu always maintained a firm belief and bravely fought against the wrong behavior of Xie Fuzhi and others. After that, Xie Fuzhi kept arresting people who had intersections with Fan Ruoyu during the review of Fan Ruoyu, and many innocent cadres were implicated.

In fact, Xie Fuzhi also has another purpose in reviewing Fan Ruoyu, which is to persecute Liu Shaoqi. Because Fan Ruoyu had served as Liu Shaoqi's secretary and had intersections with Liu Shaoqi. Xie Fuzhi hoped to achieve results from Fan Ruoyu, so he kept reviewing Fan Ruoyu. When reviewing Fan Ruoyu, Xie Fuzhi also said shamelessly: "There are not many arrests, and no one is a working people. Even if the case is not established, they will not be wronged." After that, Fan Ruoyu was imprisoned and was detained for more than seven years, until 1973 when he returned to freedom.

After the end of the ten-year special period, Fan Ruoyu returned to work at the Central Party School and successively served as deputy education director and consultant of the Central Party School. Fan Ruoyu has a rich theoretical foundation. After his comeback this time, he cherished the hard-earned opportunities and devoted himself to theoretical education, cultivating many outstanding theoretical talents for our party. In his later years, Fan Ruoyu lived mainly in Beijing and died of illness in 1985 at the age of 73.