China: Qin Bangxian, better known as Bo Gu (1907 – 1946) was a senior leader...

Qin Bangxian was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, in 1907. In his earlier years, Qin studied at the Suzhou Industrial School where he took an active role in activities against imperialism and the warlords tyrannizing China. In 1925 Qin entered Shanghai University, a university that was known for its impact on young revolutionaries s at the time. The ideas of Marxism and Leninism were taught there by early leaders of the Chinese Communist party. After the end of World War II in 1945, Mao Zedong was invited by Chiang Kaishek to Chongqing for peace negotiation in order to avoid civil war between CPC and KMT. Qin was one of the delegates of the CPC with Mao, which indicated his closeness to Mao and prominence in the CPC. Qin attended the following Political Consulting Congress held in Chongqing as a delegate of the CPC in February 1946. When Qin was on his way back to Yan'an, he died in an airplane crash in Shanxi. Among the other victims were several senior CPC leaders such as General Ye Ting, secret police boss Deng Fa, and old CPC member Wang Ruofei.