General Zhang Yan, (19 17—2003), formerly known as Zhang Jiankai, was born in Gaozhai Village, Damiao Township, Lingbi County, Anhui Province.
personal record
I was a private school when I was young. From 65438 to 0928, he studied in Suining Li Ji Primary School. Influenced by Mr. Wang Jianmin (party member), he developed patriotic thoughts and yearned for Soviet society. When I was a teenager, I yearned for the revolution. After the September 18th Incident, I joined the student anti-Japanese volunteers. 1935 join the student salvation association and support the "December 9" student movement. 1937 went to Yan' an to participate in the revolution and studied at the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University. Organize a "student anti-Japanese propaganda team" in Fengyang to carry out anti-Japanese propaganda in the streets and rural areas. 10 went to Xi' an and transferred to "Yan' an Kangda" to study. /kloc-joined the party in February, 1938, and has served as a political teacher, battalion director and brigade director of Kangda General School. In April of the same year, the "anti-university" selected the first-phase students of "Marxism-Leninism College" to study. In June165438+1October of the same year, he was transferred back to Kangda, and served as a political teacher, chief teacher and section chief of political education. In 32 years, he served as the head of the intelligence department of the Eighth Route Army headquarters. Participated in the 1943 Battle of Northern Henan. 1944 participated in the Yan 'an rectification movement. 1945 1 1 served as the minister of the democratic national army organization and the head of the education of the officers' training corps, and reformed the uprising troops mainly with political education. 1in August, 947, he was appointed as the Minister of Enemy Works of the Ninth Column in Lu Yu, Jin, and crossed the Yellow River to the Funiu Mountain area in the south. In June of the same year, 5438+065438+ 10, he was ordered to set up five independent groups in western Henan, serving as deputy secretary of the prefectural party committee and political commissar of the military sub-district, mobilizing the masses in depth and organizing local armed forces, and set up five independent groups in half a year. There are many bandits in this area, and the policy of suppression and compilation was adopted to quickly quell the bandits' chaos. In the autumn of 37, the Military and Political University of the Second Field Army served as the deputy director and director of the Political Department. After the national liberation, Comrade Zhang Yan participated in the preparatory work of Harbin Institute of Military Engineering and served as the director of the political department. 195 1 winter acting party secretary of Grade Two High School. 1952, the PLA Military Engineering College was established and served as the deputy director and director of the Political Department. 196 1 year promoted to major general. After the Cultural Revolution, he served as deputy director of the State Planning Commission, deputy director of the National Defense Science and Technology Commission, president of the National University of Defense Technology, and member of the Sixth and Seventh CPPCC.