1. Qiu Huizuo was a lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army, best known as one of the "four guardian warriors" of Vice Chairman Lin Biao during the Cultural Revolution.
23 Facts About Qiu Huizuo
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Qiu Huizuo took charge as the PLA logistics chief in 1959, and was persecuted at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
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Qiu Huizuo was later rehabilitated owing to the blessing of Zhou Enlai and Lin Biao, and elevated to the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party in 1969.
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Qiu Huizuo was born in Xingguo County, Jiangxi Province on April 16,1914.
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Qiu Huizuo joined the militia forces in his home county in 1929 at the age of fifteen.
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Qiu Huizuo joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1932.
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Qiu Huizuo, being a relatively junior officer, was not particularly close to Lin Biao at the time.
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Qiu Huizuo did not meet Lin in person until 1948, when Lin put him in charge of logistics of the Fourth Field Army.
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Qiu Huizuo did work closely with Huang Yongsheng, who was commander of the Eighth Column.
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In 1955, Qiu Huizuo was appointed deputy director and political commissar of the PLA General Logistics Department, working under director Hong Xuezhi.
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Qiu Huizuo attained the rank of lieutenant general, when the PLA awarded military ranks for the first time in 1955.
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Hong Xuezhi was dismissed for following Peng's lead, and Qiu Huizuo was named head of the GLD.
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Qiu Huizuo was subject to physical abuse and torture, fainting many times.
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Qiu Huizuo appealed directly to Lin Biao for help, who arranged his dramatic rescue.
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Zhou Enlai himself asked Qiu Huizuo to be restored in his leadership position in the GLD.
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Qiu Huizuo authorized the torture of 462 people in the GLD, eight of whom died as a result, including lieutenant generals Fu Lianzhang and Tang Ping.
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Qiu Huizuo attacked General Xiao Hua, director of the PLA General Political Department, and wreaked havoc in the GPD.
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Qiu Huizuo was elevated to the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party as well as the Politburo.
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When Lin Biao fled the country in September 1971 in an event still shrouded in mystery, Qiu Huizuo was implicated by association.
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Qiu Huizuo was relieved of his duties on September 24,1971, then sent to confinement in a military base in Shunyi while the authorities sorted out the consequences of the incident.
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Qiu Huizuo was considered one of the main culprits of the so-called "Lin Biao-Jiang Qing Counter-revolutionary clique" and went on trial along with the Gang of Four in 1981.
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Qiu Huizuo was released in 1987 after serving his full sentence, and resettled in Xi'an where he reunited with his family and was afforded some basic benefits from the state as well as a living stipend of about 200 yuan a month.
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Qiu Huizuo wrote an autobiography, released in Hong Kong in 2012, which includes details on the intrigues of the Cultural Revolution and his relationship with Lin Biao.