Liu Ding, son of Liu Shaoqi, died of illness at the age of 72

On January 4, according to the official website of the Zhongzhi Yuying Alumni Association, Liu Shaoqi’s third son Liu Ding (Liu Yunzhen) died in the Fourth Medical Center of the People’s Liberation Army General Hospital (formerly 304 Hospital) on January 1, 2019 due to pulmonary heart disease.Died of illness at the age of 72.

Relatives complied with Liu Ding's last wish and kept the funeral simple, without any form of mourning activities. A simple farewell ceremony was held in the farewell room of 304 Hospital at 8:30 on January 3, and the coffin was sent to Babaoshan Funeral Home for cremation at 9:00.

According to reports from the People's Daily and the Elderly Daily, Liu Ding was born in Yan'an in July 1946, also known as Liu Yunzhen.In 1949, he entered Beijing with his father.Liu Ding was told by his father since he was a child: You can't claim to be the children of senior cadres, and you can't be special. When you encounter something, you must first think about whether you are doing right.

After graduating from Beijing No. 101 Middle School in 1962, Liu Ding was admitted to the Liangxiang Agricultural Technical School in the suburbs of Beijing; in 1966, he was sent to the Badaling and Yanqing Mountains in the suburbs of Beijing to teach; after the Cultural Revolution, he returned to Beijing and worked in the National Science and Technology Association;After the opening up, he went to Guangxi and other places to engage in economic management.

In 1996, Liu Ding returned to Hunan and served as the vice president of the North District Branch of Changsha City Commercial Bank until his retirement in 2006.

Liu Shaoqi raised 9 children in total.Among them, he left two sons and one daughter with the martyr He Baozhen, namely the eldest son Liu Yunbin, the eldest daughter Liu Aiqin, and the second son Liu Yunruo; he left a son and a daughter with Wang Qian, the second daughter Liu Tao, and the third son Liu Ding;Daughter Liu Pingping (Wang Qing), fourth son Liu Yuan, fourth daughter Liu Tingting, fifth daughter Liu Xiaoxiao.

According to a report by Changsha Evening News in 2014, in the summer of 1962, Liu Ding was graduating from junior high school and took the high school entrance examination. He applied for a key high school in Beijing, but he was still two points behind.The staff around Liu Shaoqi prepared to greet the admissions department in Beijing and asked Liu Ding to be admitted first.

After Liu Shaoqi found out, he held a family meeting and told his family: Whether Ding Ding can go to high school should be decided by the school based on his grades.I am the president of the country, and I do things for the country and the people. I have no right to do private affairs for my own children, and I should not engage in malpractice for personal gain for my children's education.

In November 2006, when Liu Ding was a guest at the Pioneer Forum of Minwang, he recalled this past event with his father Liu Shaoqi.

My father never punished us, he always reasoned with us.He recalled: In the early 1960s, in 1962, when our country had just passed the three-year natural disaster period, my father asked me for my opinion, just for my promotion to high school, we held two family meetings, everyoneExpress your opinion.At that time, my father proposed two education systems. One education system is the same as the current primary school, middle school, and university, with a regular and normal route to school.There is another kind of part-time work-study, that is, half work and half study. This is how my father attended the French preparatory course in Tianjin. He supported himself to go to school. He advocated these two education systems.

So out of the nine children in our family, I was born as an agricultural student. I went to an agricultural technical secondary school. After graduating from junior high school, I went directly to an agricultural technical secondary school. I was 16 years old at the time, and I was a student of agriculture.technical school.It is also a practical path.About 54% of our school is working in the field, and 46% is teaching in the classroom, combining work and learning practice.He said.

In 2015, People's Literature Publishing House published the book No Regrets - Dialogue with Wang Guangmei.Liu Ding attended the new book release and reader meeting held in August of that year.