In 1953, Mao Zedong took a group photo with Chen Yi, Yang Shangkun, Zhang Aiping, Luo Ruiqing and others when they inspected Nanjing
As a professional soldier and a determined revolutionary, Zhang Aiping is a passionate man with great ideals and daring to be. He is also a man of temperament who is rebellious and good at reciting poems and making fu. Precisely because of his staunch personality, sharp-edged personality, and his own-minded personality, he has been regarded as "an alternative in the Communist Party" since his youth. Mao Zedong said to him: "Good offense!" Ye Jianying said to him: "I am covered with thorns!" Deng Xiaoping said to him: "There are a few people in the army who can't afford it, you Zhang Aiping is one!" His own motto is: "Don't To be ashamed of fame and gain, and to distinguish the authenticity and shame!”
Mao Zedong, Ye Jianying, and Deng Xiaoping’s evaluation of Zhang Aiping seems to be critical, but it actually reveals the abnormal behavior that is different from the environment in the abnormal environment that is taken for granted. A kind of philosophical affirmation, the so-called "Chen Shinonuo is not as good as a person."
After the Lushan Conference in 1959, some of the officials who came to Lushan on the same plane with Peng Dehuai to attend the meeting were like avoiding the plague, using various excuses not to board the plane that Peng Dehuai returned to Beijing. Only Zhang Aiping had no scruples. , Accompany Peng Dehuai to take the opportunity to return to Beijing calmly. On the plane, he exchanged greetings with Peng Dehuai as usual, giving Mr. Peng a little warmth to Mr. Peng, who had fallen into loneliness and pain due to his injustice.
Zhang Aiping once said: "Peng Dehuai taught me how to be a man, Zhou Enlai taught me how to do things." Afterwards, someone asked Zhang Aiping: Are you afraid of this and that? Zhang Aiping replied frankly: "Peng Dehuai is still our comrade, isn't the decision of the Eighth Plenary Session also called him a comrade!" Marshal Chen Yi once heard of the incident and exclaimed: "General Aiping has the wind of winged virtue (Zhang Fei). "
For decades, in the life of the party and the political life of the country, Zhang Aiping's attitude is very clear: "I will not follow anyone, I only follow the truth!" "Without truth, no one can let me bow my head.
In the 1960s, Zhang Aiping accompanied Mao Zedong to meet the PLA commanders
Zhang Aiping said that he had the "four fears" in his life: not afraid of fate, not adults, not afraid of saints, and not afraid of power. . Sinister situations can most test a person's mental hardness. In March 1975, after Ye Jianying's repeated mobilization, Zhang Aiping put on his shirt again and returned to the Science and Technology Commission system, focusing on rectifying the 230 factory.
In March 1977, Zhang Aiping came back again and served as the director of the National Defense Science and Technology Commission, and the deputy chief of staff of the PLA. In May 1980, he successfully organized and commanded the launch of China's first intercontinental missile, and in September of the same year, he served as Vice Premier of the State Council. In November 1982, he served as State Councilor and Minister of National Defense. He has made major contributions to national defense construction and the revolutionization, modernization, and regularization of our army, especially the construction of national defense technology and weaponry. In November 1987, Zhang Aiping became a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Advisory Committee and took a back seat.
——Excerpt from "The Essence of Literature and History" 2013 04
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