Voloshilov
During the meal, a middle-aged man poured a glass of wine and walked towards Voloshilov to raise his glass and said, "The October Revolution brought us the Chinese people with a cannon. The Communist Party of China and Chairman Mao led the Chinese revolution to victory. Under the leadership of the Party and Chairman Mao, we capitalists have gradually realized that socialism and communism are the only bright path we should take correctly. You are one of the leaders of the October Revolution. Today I do not call you Vuloshilov, but call you Comrade Vuloshilov. I wish you health and longevity as a comrade!"
Voloshilov was very excited after hearing this, and he hugged the man tightly. While the two hugged each other tightly, Zhou Enlai said to Voroshilov funnyly: "You are hugging an red capitalist ." He added: "In China, there is no red bourgeois , but there are red capitalists."
This middle-aged man is Wang Guangmei's brother Wang Guangying. There are 11 brothers and sisters in the Wang family, and he and Wang Guangmei are the most famous. In his legendary life, Wang Guangying created many firsts:
He is the only capitalist among his siblings who started with technology;
He is the first industrialist to participate in the public-private joint venture in Tianjin's socialist transformation;
He is the first person to be called a "red capitalist" by Zhou Enlai;
He is the first "boss" to establish a national enterprise in Hong Kong;
He built the tallest building in China once...
Wang Guangying
Today, Brother Di will tell you the story of Wang Guangying.
Wang Guangying was born in 1919 and ranks sixth among 11 siblings. His father, Wang Huaiqing, is a top student at Waseda University in Japan. He was the deputy director of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce of the Beiyang Government. His mother, Dong Jieru, graduated from Tianjin Jinling Women's Normal School. He is a progressive woman full of democratic ideas. Born in such a family, Wang Guangying naturally received a good education since childhood.
After Wang Guangying went to school, he not only had excellent grades, but also had versatile talents. He not only liked to sing Peking Opera and Western songs, but also proficient in dancing. Regarding dancing, Wang Guangying once said: "I see that many people have not seriously studied the standard ballroom dance . In the lobby on the third floor of the CPPCC auditorium, they held dances every Saturday. Some young people were not dancing, but laughing and joking. Chairman Mao said they should be 'serious', but these people danced without learning to dance, and they didn't even play seriously. Can they work seriously?"
Then Wang Guangying devoted all his energy to the factory. He successively developed products such as deacidification, wood distillation, and adhesive paste, and the benefits in the factory are getting better and better. But at this moment, a sudden disaster suddenly came to his head.
It turned out that one day, a national army plane flew over Beiping . The Chinese people in the occupied area were naturally very excited. Wang Guangying also said to the two classmates around him excitedly: "Look, this is our plane!"
But this sentence was heard by the secret agent of the Japanese military police. Wang Guangying was arrested by them and was in prison for nearly two months and suffered a lot of torture. Fortunately, his father Wang Huaiqing entrusted his relationship everywhere and then bailed him out.
After this prison disaster, Wang Guangying deeply realized that as long as the country is enslaved, there is no way out for business. At that time, many of Wang Guangying's brothers and sisters were helping the underground party to do their work, and a few of them even joined the Communist Party of China. Wang Guangying was influenced by them and naturally became increasingly yearning for the Communist Party of China and Yan'an.
Wang Guangying
Cui Yueli asked with a smile: "Didn't you have opened a chemical factory in Tianjin? Of course I am willing to introduce you to Yan'an. It is better to have one more person to revolution than to have one less person. But based on your specific situation, I think you have arrived in Yan'an, and the party may still want you to do business."
Wang Guangying asked in surprise: "I went to Yan'an to fight against Japan and the revolution. If I still wanted to do business, why should I go to Yan'an!"
Cui Yueli said seriously: "Don't separate business from revolution. Doing your business in Tianjin and doing business with the Communist Party can also contribute to the revolution?"
cui Yueli
This sentence inspired Wang Guangying very much. After that, when he was doing business, he often took huge risks to transport batches of military supplies and medical supplies to the liberated areas around Pingjin. Although his battlefield was not in Yan'an, he had already started fighting.
On August 21, 1948, Wang Guangmei and Liu Shaoqi officially got married. In March 1949, the Party Central Committee moved from Xibaipo to Peiping and entered Xiangshan, a remote suburb in the northwest of the city. One day, Liu Shaoqi happened to go to Beiping City to do business, so he decided to go with Wang Guangmei to visit his father-in-law and mother-in-law who lives in Peking.
Wang Guangying attached great importance to Liu Shaoqi's visit. He put on his best suit and tied the most beautiful tie. In order to prepare a gift for Liu Shaoqi, he also rode his bicycle around Xidan for a walk, and finally chose a checkered thin-wool scarf in a department store.
After Liu Shaoqi arrived, Wang Guangying found that he was wearing only a baseball cap that was very popular among workers and a black tweed uniform produced in the liberated area. The collar didn't look very tailored. Wang Guangying felt ashamed. He did not expect that Liu Shaoqi, as a senior leader of the Communist Party of China, was dressed so simple. He regretted that he should not wear this most beautiful suit.
Liu Shaoqi and Wang Guangmei
When they were having dinner, Wang Guangying took the initiative to propose to Liu Shaoqi to join the party. He said: "I don't want to be a capitalist. I am a chemistry student and have a skill. I don't need enterprises or capital, and I don't want to be a crime of exploiting workers. There are many Communist Party members among our brothers and sisters, so I also want to join the Communist Party of China."
Liu Shaoqi said: "We have many party members and cadres, and we don't lack one, but we need patriotic, capable, and able to cooperate with the Communist Party." The capitalists work together to develop production and build a new China. Can you sit on the side of the Communist Party and the working class in the business world? If you can do it, then your construction of the New China will be greater than your participation in the Communist Party. "
Wang Guangying was inspired after hearing this and said, "I understand the party's expectations for me! I will follow this expectation as my direction for progress!"
After the meal, Wang Guangying gave the prepared scarf to Liu Shaoqi. Although Liu Shaoqi accepted it, he still smiled and said to Wang Guangying: "We don't have these rules, so don't do it again in the future."
Liu Shaoqi and Wang Guangying
Liu Shaoqi Although he said so, he used this scarf until the last moment of his life.
After the founding of New China, Wang Guangying served as the Secretary-General of the Tianjin Federation of Industry and Commerce in 1950. This is an important position that acts as a bridge between the party, the government and capitalists, and plays a role in communication and connection. He has worked in this position for more than 10 years. Not only during Resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea, he actively organized capitalists to subscribe for national saving bonds, donate a large number of war supplies, but also in socialism During the transformation period, he took the initiative to implement a public-private joint venture in the modern chemical factory he was in charge of. It was precisely because he made significant contributions to the country's economic construction that he was called a "red capitalist" by Zhou Enlai.
"Beijing-Guangzhou Center" is a comprehensive building integrating five-star hotels, high-end office buildings, and luxury apartments. The building has 52 floors above the ground and 3 floors underground. Before 1989, it was the tallest building in China. After the building reached the top, Deng Xiaoping climbed the tower to inspect. He couldn't help but sigh: "Development is the hard task. "
When he was the chairman of China Everbright Company, Wang Guangying worked and lived in Hong Kong for seven or eight years. He led Everbright Company to invest in the construction of five buildings and hotels in China, as well as large-scale construction projects such as the Shaving Door project, the sea-building field project, and the Jiangmen Bridge project. It can be said that it created an economic miracle.
A Hong Kong capitalist once offered Wang Guangying a monthly salary of 1 million Hong Kong dollars and asked him to be a consultant, but he immediately refused. Even so, there were still many rumors about him in the outside world. A Hong Kong female reporter once asked him: "It is true that the outside world has a lot of life in Hong Kong. "
Wang Guangying replied with a smile: "Please invite those who say I am very rich in Hong Kong on their behalf. If you ask them to spend 3 days with me, you will understand whether I am rich or not. "
Wang Guangying
In fact, Wang Guangying's residence in Hong Kong is just an apartment house. The salary given to him by the state is only a few thousand Hong Kong dollars per month, and the hundreds of millions of yuan earned by Everbright Company were handed over to the treasury. General Zhang Aiping was amazed at Wang Guangying's cleanliness and integrity, and wrote 8 big words for him:
Two sleeves are clean and honest, and strive for the country.
Wang Guangying said in his later years: "The traditional culture of any nation can only develop through 'movement'. Movement changes, and change comes from 'movement'. Reform and opening up is 'movement'..." This can be said to be the true meaning of reform that he realized through his life.
Wang Guangying and his wife
On October 29, 2018, Wang Guangying died of illness in Beijing at the age of 99.
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