Mao Zemin also using Zhoubin as his alias, was born in Xiangtan

Xiangtan

Xiangtan is a city in China's Hunan Province that is located on the lower reaches of Xiang river. The hometowns of several founding leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, including Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, and Peng Dehuai are in the Xiangtan Municipal District, as well as the hometowns of Qing...

, Hunan

Hunan

' is a province of South-Central China, located to the south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting...

 province. He was the head of the state bank of the Red State in Ruijin

Ruijin

Ruijin is a county-level city of Ganzhou in the mountains bordering Fujian Province in south-eastern Jiangxi.The name derives from the ancient God, Rui Jin. It is most famous as one of the earliest centers of Chinese communist activity...

 and also the Minister of National Economic Department. He was a younger brother of Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung , and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution...

 (Chairman Mao), and joined the Communist Party of China

Communist Party of China

The Communist Party of China , also known as the Chinese Communist Party , is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China...

 early on. During World War II, he was sent to Xinjiang

Xinjiang

Xinjiang is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. It is the largest Chinese administrative division and spans over 1.6 million km2...

 by the Party central committee in 1938. He and Chen Tanqiu

Chen Tanqiu

Chen Tanqiu was a founding member of the Communist Party of China .Chen Tanqiu graduated from Wuhan Higher Normal School after which he played a leadership role in the May Fourth Movement in 1919. Chen then created the Wuhan Communist group with Dong Biwu in 1920...

 (陈潭秋) were arrested by the warlord Sheng Shicai

Sheng Shicai

Sheng Shicai was a Chinese warlord who "ruled" Xinjiang province from April 12, 1933 to August 29, 1944....

 (盛世才) while at Ürümqi

Ürümqi

Ürümqi , formerly Tihwa , is the capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, in the northwest of the country....

, Xinjiang

Xinjiang

Xinjiang is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. It is the largest Chinese administrative division and spans over 1.6 million km2...

. He was executed on September 27, 1943.

Introduction

Mao Zemin (who took Runlian (润莲) as his second name) was brother of communist leaders Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung , and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution...

 and Mao Zetan

Mao Zetan

Máo Zétán was the younger one of Mao Zedong's two brothers. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1923. In 1927, he participated in the Nanchang Uprising, retreating with the Communists to the Jinggang Mountains at its completion...

. He joined in the CPC in 1922. He was appointed the minister of the economic department in Minyuegan (闽粤赣) area in 1931, and the manager of national bank later in the year. Mao Zemin studied in school for only 4 years.

Career

In the autumn of 1921, Mao Zemin studied in the Hunan self-study University which was founded by Mao Zedong, and raised money for the CPC. At the end of the year he Joined the Communist Party of China.

In November 1922, he organized the workers’ strike in Changsha. At the end of 1922, Mao Zemin went to promote workers’ movement in Anyuan, served as Chief of the workers economy club. In February 1923, he involved in organizing the establishment of joint-stock economic entities under the leadership from the party - An Yuan Road miners’ consumer cooperatives. In August, he was elected as the general manager, while maintained the interest and expanded the welfare of workers at the same time, he also accumulated and prepared funds for the party's activities.

In February 1925, Mao Zemin went to Xiangtan、Xiangxiang for workers’ movement with his brother, built the first countryside party organization. In September, he went to Guangzhou for workers’ Movement study.

In July 1931, Zemin went into the central revolutionary area, he served as Minister of economic department in Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi. In December 1931, he was appointed as the Finance Committee member and the manager of the National Bank by the Central Government. at the meantime, he was a part-time manager of the Chinese company which produced ore.

In October 1934, Mao Zemin as the president of the National Bank to participate in the Long March with the Central Red Army, and served as political commissar of the Central 15th brigade, helped to collect food, funds, and the whole supply work for the army during the Long March. In November 1935, the Long March reached the northern of Shaanxi province, he was appointed as the economy minister of the government and led the national economic Ministry to break the military blockade of Yan Xishan in Shanxi, helped to transport the cloth and cotton, and organized workers to make cotton cloth for the arm. In April 1937, he went to Shanghai to perform specific financial tasks.

On September 17, 1942, Mao Zemin and other Communists Chen Tanqiu were arrested by the warlord Sheng Shicai

Sheng Shicai

Sheng Shicai was a Chinese warlord who "ruled" Xinjiang province from April 12, 1933 to August 29, 1944....

, who had been working closely with the Soviet Union but then turned against them. In prison, Sheng Shicai used many tortures on Zemin to force him to confess to a Chinese Communist Party plot in Xinjiang to against the government and to force him to quit the Communist Party. He refused to yield and was executed.

His son, Mao Yuanxin

Mao Yuanxin

Mao Yuanxin was the liaison between Chinese leader Mao Zedong and the Communist Party's Central Committee in the former's ailing years, when he was no longer able to regularly attend political functions...

, was important in Mao's last years.

Famous words

"Never betray the party, Communist Party members has his integrity. " 决不脱离党，共产党员有他的气节。
"I can not stand to abandon communism! " 我不能放弃共产主义立场！

See also

• Mao Zedong
  Mao Zedong
  Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung , and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution...