According to Xinhua News Agency, on November 2, an outstanding representative of modern Chinese national businessmen, a famous social activist, an outstanding leader of the China Democratic Construction Association and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, and a close friend of the Communist Party of China, the eighth,Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress.

Vice Chairman of the Sixth and Seventh National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Executive Vice Chairman of the Third Central Committee of the China Democratic Construction Association, Vice Chairman of the Fifth and Sixth Executive Committee of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, Vice Chairman of the Seventh,The body of Comrade Wang Guangying, honorary chairman of the eighth executive committee and former honorary chairman of China Everbright (Group) Corporation, was cremated on November 2 in Beijing Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.

Wang Guangying and Wang Guangmei (the picture comes from Luo Haiyan Wang Guangmei's private album)

At 9:28 pm on October 29, Wang Guangying passed away in Beijing at the age of 100.More than two months ago, Everbright Group, which he founded, celebrated its 35th birthday.Since 1983, Wang Guangying has successively served as the vice chairman of the sixth and seventh National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the eighth and ninth National People's Congress.

Wang Guangmei's closest brother

Wang Guangying was born in 1919. He has 11 brothers and sisters in total. He is the 6th, just in the middle. With him as the boundary, the first 5 are brothers and the last 5 are younger sisters.The number one sister is Wang Guangmei.

According to a book by Liu Shaoqi's family: Wang Guangmei and her sixth brother Wang Guangying are two years apart, and they are very close siblings.Wang Guangying did not join any party, but as the only capitalist in the Wang family, his pace of life is closely linked with China's destiny.

Among the 11 brothers and sisters, seven are members of the Communist Party, but there are also people without party affiliation.Before liberation, because siblings had different views, sometimes it was unavoidable to argue at the dinner table.The witty Wang Guangying once said: Our brothers and sisters have been at war for ten years, and we have been flying from east to west.However, there are few Feixi, and the fifth elder brother Wang Guangfu is the only solitary one in the Wang family.The book also records the story of Liu Shaoqi's first visit to Wang Guangmei's home in 1949.

At that time, Wang Guangying opened a chemical factory with others in Tianjin and worked in Tianjin for a long time, but his home was still in Peiping.In preparation for the meeting with Liu Shaoqi, he really spent some time thinking about what clothes to wear and what gifts to give.In the end he decided on a suit and tie.I rode my bicycle around the archway of Xidan, and finally chose a thin woolen scarf with camel and gray checks in a department store.

During the meeting, Liu Shaoqi asked Wang Guangying about setting up a factory in Tianjin.Wang Guangying suggested to Liu Shaoqi which factories could make military uniforms, which factories could produce bullets, which factories could manufacture armored vehicles to support the southward war, and so on.

Liu Shaoqi couldn't help laughing when he heard this, and said: The war won't last long, and the whole country will be liberated soon.Now we should consider the issue of peacetime construction.

He asked Wang Guangying to contact friends in the business circles after returning to Tianjin to promote the policies of the Communist Party.Unexpectedly, Wang Guangying wanted to take off the hat of capitalist on his head. He said: I don't want to do business in the business world anymore.

After Liu Shaoqi finished speaking, he said calmly: There are many Communist Party members and cadres in our party, but there are not many who play a role in the industrial and commercial circles like you.If you wear business clothes and sit on the side of the Communist Party and the working class, that's great.

Red Capitalist

According to the article "The Red Complex of Wang Guangying, a Red Capitalist" published by the History of the Party, during a meeting with a foreign guest in 1957, a foreign guest hugged Wang Guangying.

Zhou Enlai called Wang Guangying a "red capitalist" not only because he had helped the Communist Party a lot through business channels during his career, but also in politics, Wang Guangying had always pursued progress, and he was very responsible for all important decisions made by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China., he has always unconditionally and actively taken the lead in implementing it.

According to the article, after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Wang Guangying was named by Mr. Li Zhuochen, a leading figure in Tianjin’s industrial and commercial circles, in April 1950, and served as the secretary-general of the Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce (Li Zhuochen was the director of the association).This is an important position that acts as a bridge between the party and the government and capitalists, and plays a role of communication and connection.Wang Guangying has worked in this position for more than ten years, giving full play to the key role of this position.

During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Wang Guangying actively organized capitalists to subscribe for national salvation bonds, and donated a large amount of war supplies, including aircraft, artillery and other weapons, as well as daily necessities.During the period of socialist transformation, Wang Guangying not only took the initiative to implement the public-private partnership in the modern chemical factory he presided over in 1953, but also donated all the fixed interest allocated to him by the factory after the public-private partnership to the state.

The article stated: Wang Guangying also actively and sincerely proposed many times to join the Chinese Communist Party and work better for the party.The first time was when Liu Shaoqi visited his parents-in-law as a new son-in-law after he married Wang Guangying’s younger sister Wang Guangmei.

Wang Guangying asked to join the party again in 1983 after the reform and opening up, when he asked Hu Yaobang, then general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, to join the party.Hu Yaobang once again declined Wang Guangying's request because he played a greater role outside the party.

Found Everbright Group

In 1981, Wang Guangying visited Macau and Hong Kong successively as a member of the delegation of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce.

After he came back, he wrote a written report to the central government—Hong Kong and Macao’s knowledge and eight suggestions, suggesting to take advantage of the opportunity of world economic recovery to set up a large-scale, comprehensive, open, cosmopolitan, folk-colored company in Hong Kong, specialized in introducing Western technology and capital, or cooperating with Western companies, joint ventures, joint ventures, developing inland industries, and constructing large-scale projects, believing that this will definitely play a big role in the modernization of the country.

The central government accepted his suggestion and decided that he would be responsible for establishing such a company.In April 1983, the company was formally established and named Everbright.According to Wang Guangying's explanation, those who are big can do business in an aboveboard manner.

And announced to China and foreign countries: the company's business purpose is to expand economic and technological exchanges between China and foreign countries, to introduce foreign capital and foreign advanced technology and equipment, to cooperate with foreign businessmen, to conduct joint ventures, to serve the construction of my country's four modernizations, and to contribute to the stability of Hong Kong's prosperity and the development of Hong Kong's economy. contribute.

According to the article "The Red Complex of Red Capitalist Wang Guangying": In order to expand its business, Everbright Company has invited a large number of world celebrities to visit the company, including Nixon, Kissinger, US Vice President Mundell, Treasury Secretary Connally and Miller., Iron King Rockefeller and so on.Wang Guangying also has good personal relationships with former Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita and former Indonesian President Suharto.

In its contacts with these friends from all over the world, Everbright Company has given full play to its advantages as a private enterprise, carried out extensive non-governmental diplomacy, publicized itself, understood each other, introduced a large amount of funds and technologies for the country's economic construction, and contributed to the country's reform and development.Won a good external environment.

Kissinger visited Everbright Company three times, and asked Wang Guangying one time: How will your company develop economic exchanges between China and the United States?Wang Guangying replied: I will do anything that is conducive to Sino-US friendship, and I will not do anything that is not conducive to Sino-US friendship.Kissinger immediately said, then, from now on, if you want me to do things, I don't want your money.Wang Guangying also said immediately, for the sake of Sino-US friendship, if you want me to do things in the future, I don't want your money either.

However, in actual communication, Everbright Company never asked Kissinger to do anything without money.Wang Guangying sees very clearly that it is extremely important for Everbright to have an influential American politician like Kissinger as a frequent visitor to the maintenance and development of Sino-US friendly relations.

Story with Ying Yili

In 2005, not long after Wang Guangying and his wife Ying Yili had their 60-year diamond wedding, Ying Yili accepted media interviews and told their love story.

Wang Guangying and his lover Ying Yili (data map, sourced from the Internet)

The two met in 1938. On the day we met, my sister and I were skating on the ice rink and saw her boyfriend and Wang Guangying approaching from a distance. My first impression of him was very good.He was quiet, courteous, and careful.

At that time, we all rode bicycles to and from school. After coming out of the ice rink, my sister suggested that we go to eat, and we all rode bicycles.To my surprise, when we parked at the entrance of the restaurant, Guangying parked his car and took the initiative to put the car away and lock it for me. Just such a detail made me feel that this young man is really nice and shouldEly said.

Ying Yili recalled that during the Cultural Revolution, Wang Guangying was imprisoned in Qincheng Prison. I saved some money from the 12 yuan living expenses of the whole family at that time, and bought him some delicious food.Encourage each other to live strong.My visit to the prison has also become a kind of strength for Guangying to survive, and this is also the hope for me and my children to survive.

In 1975, Wang Guangying walked out of Qincheng Prison and did not return to work immediately. Instead, she became a full-time cook at home. She worked for three years until she resumed work.At that time, I was doing literature and history data sorting in the Tianjin CPPCC, and the work was very cumbersome. Guangying willingly took on the important task of taking care of the family.He said: lsquo;Xiaoying has cooked for me for a lifetime, and my three years are a little reward!rsquo;

Ying Yili said that in the past three years, Wang Guangying's cooking skills have made great progress.At that time, just before and after the Tangshan earthquake in 1976, everyone lived in a temporary earthquake shed on the street to prevent the earthquake, and cooked on the side of the street, using a bamboo curtain as a door.So, people often lift the curtain of my house and say with a smile: lsquo; Cooking again!rsquo;

Resume of Wang Guangying

Wang Guangying (1919-2018) was born in Beijing. He joined the Democratic National Construction Association in 1950. He has successively served as the chairman of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Democratic National Construction Association, a member of the Committee of the Democratic National Construction Association, a member of the first Central Committee of the Democratic National Construction Association, a member of the second Central Committee Standing Committee, andVice-Chairman of the 1st Central Committee, member of the Standing Committee of the 4th, 5th and 6th Central Committee, and consultant of the 7th Central Committee.

In 1942, he graduated from the Chemistry Department of Fu Jen Catholic University in Peking.From 1943 to 1949, he served as the director of Tianjin Modern Chemical Factory.After the founding of New China, he served successively as director of Tianjin Lisheng Knitting Factory, manager of Tianjin Knitwear Weaving Company, vice chairman and general manager of Tianjin International Trust and Investment Corporation, vice mayor of Tianjin, vice chairman of the CPPCC, and director of China Everbright Group Co., Ltd.Chairman and General Manager, Director of China International Trust and Investment Corporation.Vice Chairman of the National Youth Federation.Chairman of the China Association for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification.

The first, second, and third executive members of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, the fourth standing committee member, the fifth and sixth vice-chairmen, and the seventh honorary chairman.Deputy to the First, Second and Third National People's Congresses, Vice Chairman of the Eighth and Ninth National People's Congress Standing Committees.Member of the Fifth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Vice Chairman of the Sixth and Seventh National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

(Resume source: China Democratic National Construction Association official website)