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[Prosecutors' History] Luo Ronghuan, the first Procurator General of the Republic
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 [Prosecutors' History] Luo Ronghuan, the first Procurator General of the Republic

   At 2:00 p.m. on October 1, 1949, the first meeting of the Central People's Government appointed Luo Ronghuan (fourth from the right in the front row) as the Procurator General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate of the Central People's Government. At 3:00 p.m., the founding father boarded the Tiananmen Tower to participate in the founding ceremony.  

   On October 1, 1949, the first meeting of the Central People's Government Committee appointed Luo Ronghuan, the founding father, as the Procurator General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate. Luo Ronghuan Becomes the First Procurator General of New China  

   On October 19 of the same year, the Third Meeting of the Central People's Government Committee appointed Li Liuru and Lan Gongwu (non party personages) as Deputy Procurators General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and appointed Luo Ruiqing, Yang Qiqing, He Xiangning, Li Xijiu, Zhou Xinmin, Chen Shaomin, Xu Jianguo, Wang Jinxiang, Li Shiying, Bu Shengguang and Feng Jiping as members of the Procuratorial Committee of the Supreme People's Procuratorate.  

 [Prosecutors' History] Luo Ronghuan, the first Procurator General of the Republic

   Luo Ronghuan, Procurator General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate  

   (Term of office: 1949-1954)  

   Luo Ronghuan (1902-1963), a native of Hengshan (today's Hengdong County), Hunan Province, is a strategist, politician, and one of the founders and leaders of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1927. Participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising. In January 1934, he was elected as alternate executive member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Soviet Republic and won the Red Star Medal. During the Anti Japanese War, he served as deputy division commander and political commissar of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army. In June 1945, he was elected to the 7th CPC Central Committee. In the War of Liberation, he participated in commanding the Liaoshen Campaign and the Pingjin Campaign. On October 1, 1949, he served as the Procurator General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate. In September 1954, he served as Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of Marshal of the People's Republic of China.  

   He was born in Nanwan Village, Yuxing Town, Hanshui Township, Hengshan, Hunan Province, on November 26, 1902 (now Hengdong County). He started to study in private school at the age of 8 and then entered primary school. He joined Changsha Xiejun Middle School in 1919. In 1923, he went to Beijing and entered the cram school run by Hunan Guild Hall. In the summer of 1924, he was admitted to Qingdao University in Shandong Province. As one of the leaders of the Student Union, he organized his classmates to participate in the "May 30th" anti imperialist patriotic movement. In the summer of 1926, after graduating from the preparatory course of Qingdao University, he went to Guangzhou to organize peasant associations in his hometown to fight against local tyrants and evil gentry.  

   In April 1927, he studied in the School of Science of Sun Yat sen University in Wuchang, joined the Communist Youth League of China, and soon became a member of the Communist Party of China. In July of the same year, he was sent by the CPC Hubei Provincial Committee to Tongcheng in southern Hubei to engage in the peasant movement. In August, he participated in organizing the Tongcheng Autumn Harvest Rebellion, served as the party representative of the Tongcheng and Chongyang Peasant Self Defense Forces, and led his department to Xiushui, Jiangxi, to join the 1st Division of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army to participate in the Autumn Harvest Uprising on the Hunan Jiangxi border. At the end of September, when the army was reorganized in Sanwan Village, Yongxin County, Jiangxi Province, he served as the Party representative of the spy company of the 1st regiment of the 1st Division of the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army (later renamed the Red Army) and participated in the struggle to create the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base. In April 1928, he served as the Party representative of the 3rd Battalion of the 31st Regiment of the Fourth Red Army. At the beginning of 1929, he marched into southern Jiangxi and western Fujian with the main force of the Fourth Red Army. In March, he served as the party representative of the ninth detachment of the Third Column of the Fourth Red Army. At the end of the same year, he participated in the investigation and research work for the preparation of the 9th Congress of the Fourth Red Army of the Communist Party of China (Gutian Conference) and attended the conference.  

   Luo Ronghuan supported Mao Zedong's thought of building the army and was elected as a member of the former enemy committee of the Fourth Red Army because of his "correct concept and active struggle". After the meeting, he was transferred to the political committee of the second column. In order to implement the resolution of Gutian meeting, he carried out painstaking political and ideological work, which significantly improved the military and political quality of the second column. In June 1930, he acted as the political commissar of the Fourth Red Army, and in August he served as the political commissar. Lin Biao, the commander of the army, and his troops participated in the attacks on Changsha and the capture of Ji'an. In the winter of the same year, in the so-called struggle to wipe out the AB Regiment, we opposed indiscriminate arrest, wrong killing and saved a number of comrades. In the first, second and third counter campaigns against "encirclement and suppression" in the Central Soviet Area, he participated in battle command, led political work, organized troops to mobilize the masses, fought local tyrants, divided fields, raised food funds, and expanded the Red Army.  

   In March 1932, he served as the director of the political department of the 1st Red Army Corps, and also served as the director of the political department of the East Route Army who fought in Fujian, and participated in commanding Zhangzhou and other battles. In 1933, he participated in the fourth counter campaign against "encirclement and suppression" in the Central Soviet Area. Since April of the same year, he has successively served as the director of the Political Department of Jiangxi Military Region, inspector of the General Political Department and director of the Armed Mobilization Department. In July, he also served as the chief of the expanded Red Army commandos of the General Political Department. In January 1934, he was elected as alternate executive member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Soviet Republic and won the Red Star Medal. In September of the same year, he served as the director of the political department of the 8th Red Army Corps and participated in the Long March. After the Zunyi meeting, he served as the Acting Director of the Political Department of the Third Red Army Corps, and soon returned to the General Political Department as an inspector. In September 1935, he served as the Deputy Director of the Political Department of the 1st Red Army Corps (renamed the 1st Column of Shaanxi Gansu Detachment in the same month). In February 1936, he led the vanguard troops to participate in the Eastern Expedition. In June, he studied in the Chinese People's Anti Japanese Military and Political University and served as the first section political commissar for training senior cadres. In January 1937, he served as the director of the rear political department of the Military Commission, and in July, he served as the director of the political department of the 1st Red Army Corps.  

   After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, he served as the Director of the Political Department of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army. In the autumn of 1938, he participated in the enlarged Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held in Yan'an, and served as a political member of the 115th Division after the meeting, which severely damaged the Japanese puppet army for many times. At the beginning of March 1939, he entered Shandong with Chen Guangzhu's 115 division headquarters and 686 regiments, which opened the anti Japanese situation in various regions of Shandong. In August 1941, he served as the secretary of the Shandong Military and Political Committee, leading the army and the people to persevere in the struggle, which defeated the Japanese army's large-scale "mopping up" in Shandong. In March 1943, he served as the commander and political commissar of the Shandong Military Region, the political commissar of the 115 Division, and the acting division commander, and later as the secretary of the Shandong Branch of the CPC Central Committee, leading the party, government, and military work in the Shandong Anti Japanese Base Area.  

   On July 1, 1944, the report entitled "Learning Comrade Mao Zedong's Thought" was published, which proposed that we should "follow the direction of Mao Zedong Thought" and "publicize Comrade Mao Zedong's military building thought". At the same time, it emphasizes that we should study and apply Mao Zedong Thought with a scientific attitude of seeking truth from facts. In June of the same year, he was elected as a member of the 7th CPC Central Committee.  

   After the victory of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he led more than 60000 of Shandong's main forces to march into the northeast. He successively served as the second political member of the Northeast People's Autonomy Army and the deputy political member of the Northeast Democratic United Army to mobilize the masses and create a base area in the northeast. In August 1946, he went to the Soviet Union for treatment and had one kidney removed. In May 1947, he returned to the Northeast battlefield, commanded the offensive operations in autumn and winter with Lin Biao, and organized and led the political work of the big corps in the battle. Popularize the education experience of the third column in the army, strengthen the fighting will of the commanders and fighters, and improve the combat effectiveness of the army. This experience was later promoted in the whole army under the instruction of the Central Military Commission of the CPC. In August 1948, he served as the first deputy political commissar of the Northeast Military Region and political commissar of the Northeast Field Army, and participated in commanding the Liaoshen Campaign. Firmly implementing the strategic decision of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China (CMC) to attack Jinzhou first and close the Kuomintang army in the northeast to wipe it out, played an important role in winning the battle. After the liberation of Northeast China, he fought with Lin Biao and the Northeast Field Army. During the Pingjin Campaign, as a member of the General Front Committee of the CPC Pingjin Front and a political commissar of the People's Liberation Army Pingjin Front, he participated in the campaign command and negotiations for the peaceful liberation of Peiping. In January 1949, he served as the political commissar of the Fourth Field Army. In June, he was appointed the second secretary of Central China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (later Central South Bureau) and the first political member of Central China Military Region (later Central South Military Region).  

   After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the Procurator General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate. In April 1950, he served as the director of the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army, and in September of the same year, he also served as the director of the General Cadre Management Department. In 1952, he led the preparation of the People's Liberation Army Political College and later served as the president. Presided over the formulation of the Regulations on Political Work of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (Draft), which became the basic law and regulation for the construction of the people's army.  

   In June 1954, he served as the Vice Chairman of the People's Revolutionary Military Commission of the Central People's Government. In September, he served as Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and Vice Chairman of the National Defense Commission. In September 1955, he was awarded the rank of Marshal of the People's Republic of China, and was awarded the First Class 81 Medal, the First Class Medal of Independence and Freedom, and the First Class Medal of Liberation. In November of the same year, he served as Secretary of the CPC PLA Supervisory Committee. In September 1956, he was elected as a member of the 8th Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.  

   He died in Beijing on December 16, 1963.