25 Facts About Zhou Baozhong

Zhou Baozhong was a commander of the 88th Separate Rifle Brigade and Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army resisting the pacification of Manchukuo by the Empire of Japan.

Zhou Baozhong was born on 1902 in Dali Prefecture, Yunnan.

In March 1927, Zhou served as deputy commander of the 56th Regiment of the Sixth Army of Cheng Qian's National Revolutionary Army.

Zhou Baozhong served as a member of the Manchuria Provincial Committee and Secretary of the Military Commission of the CCP.

Zhou Baozhong successively served as the commander of the 5th Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army.

Zhou Baozhong served as the commander-in-chief of the Second Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army and secretary of the CCP Jidong Provincial Committee.

In early August 1941, the teaching brigade of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces was established in the Soviet Union, with Zhou Baozhong serving as the brigade commander.

Zhou Baozhong returned to Changchun in September 1945, under the alias Huang Shaoyuan.

Zhou Baozhong served as the deputy commander of the Soviet garrison headquarters in Changchun.

Zhou Baozhong was appointed deputy chief of staff under the command of Lin Biao.

Zhou Baozhong served as secretary of the Jihe District Party Committee, commander and political commissar of the Jihe National Army, and chairman of the Jihe Administrative Committee in Hubei.

Zhou Baozhong served as a member of the Provincial Working Committee and commander of the Jilin Military Region.

In January 1946, the Northeast People's Autonomous Army was renamed as Northeast Democratic Alliance Army, and Zhou Baozhong served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army and commander of the Jilin Military Region.

However, after the Democratic Alliance Army was renamed the Northeastern People's Liberation Army in January 1948, it was reorganized into the Fourth Field Army in November 1948 and on the same month, Zhou Baozhong was dismissed as a deputy commander.

In September 1949, Zhou Baozhong served as commander-in-chief and political commissar of the Northeast People's Self-Defense Army, deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army and commander of the Dongman Military Region, chairman of the Jilin Provincial Government, deputy commander of the Northeast Military Region of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and commander of the Jilin Military Region.

Zhou Baozhong served as the Northeast Member of the Standing Committee of the Administrative Committee.

Zhou Baozhong served as the vice chairman of the Kunming Military Management Committee and political committee director of the Committee of Political and Civil Affairs.

In 1954, due to severe heart failure and the recurrence of gallstones, the Central Government decided that Zhou Baozhong would be recuperating in Beijing from August 1954.

Zhou Baozhong advised him to write and sort out the historical materials of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army after recovery.

At the beginning of 1964, Zhou Baozhong was so seriously ill that he was bedridden.

Zhou Baozhong died on next day in a hospital in Beijing, at the age of 62.

Zhou Baozhong was married to Wang Yizhi on October 6,1939, at the temporary station of the Second Route Army headquarters.

Zhou Baozhong Wei was admitted to the Second Military Medical University of the People's Liberation Army in 1962, and worked in the 301 Hospital of the Beijing Military Region in 1973.

Zhou Baozhong successively worked in anesthesiology and hyperbaric oxygen medicine until her retirement.

An investigation by the Wall Street Journal revealed that businesses connected to the Zhou Baozhong's family helped enrich North Korea with its national income that contributed to its weapons development.