Xi Zhongxun

== Career ==

== Career ==

=== Red Army ===

=== Red Army period ===

In 1930, Xi was appointed by the party to work in the [[Guominjun]] under [[Yang Hucheng]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=《习仲勋的故事》_共产党员网|url=https://fuwu.12371.cn/2013/10/16/ARTI1381902648358707_all.shtml|access-date=4 November 2021|website=fuwu.12371.cn}}</ref>

In 1930, Xi was appointed by the party to work in the [[Guominjun]] under [[Yang Hucheng]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=《习仲勋的故事》_共产党员网|url=https://fuwu.12371.cn/2013/10/16/ARTI1381902648358707_all.shtml|access-date=4 November 2021|website=fuwu.12371.cn}}</ref>

In February 1935, the revolutionary base regions in Northern Shaanxi and the Shaanxi-Gansu border region were consolidated during the [[Second encirclement campaign against the Jiangxi Soviet|Second Counter-Encirclement Campaign]], resulting in the formation of the {{ill|Northwest Revolutionary Base|zh|西北革命根据地}}. Xi Zhongxun emerged as a prominent figure within the Northwest Working Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and maintained his role as Chairman of the Soviet Government of the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Region.<ref name="f046">{{cite book | author=杨正辉 | title=聚焦主席台: 指点江山 (1949-1976) | publisher=湖南人民出版社 | date=2004 | isbn=978-7-5438-3721-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYodAQAAMAAJ| language=zh | access-date=2025-07-14 | page=162}}</ref>

In February 1935, the revolutionary base regions in Northern Shaanxi and the Shaanxi-Gansu border region were consolidated during the [[Second encirclement campaign against the Jiangxi Soviet|Second Counter-Encirclement Campaign]], resulting in the formation of the {{ill|Northwest Revolutionary Base|zh|西北革命根据地}}. Xi Zhongxun emerged as a prominent figure within the Northwest Working Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and maintained his role as Chairman of the Soviet Government of the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Region.<ref name="f046">{{cite book | author=杨正辉 | title=聚焦主席台: 指点江山 (1949-1976) | publisher=湖南人民出版社 | date=2004 | isbn=978-7-5438-3721-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYodAQAAMAAJ| language=zh | access-date=2025-07-14 | page=162}}</ref>

In September 1935, Xi Zhongxun, together with {{ill|Liu Jingfan|zh|刘景范}} and others, went to [[Wazi Township|Wazichuan]] in Bao’an County to welcome the {{ill|25th Red Army|zh|中国工农红军第二十五军}} upon its arrival in northern Shaanxi after the [[Long March]]. Shortly thereafter, Xi was arrested in Wangjiaping, [[Ganquan County]], by {{ill|Zhu Lizhi|zh|朱理治}}—head of the CCP Northwest Delegation and Secretary of the {{ill|Shaanxi-Gansu-Suiyuan Provincial Committee|zh|中国共产党陕甘晋省委员会}}—along with Deputy Secretary {{ill|Guo Hongtao|zh|郭洪涛}} and Director of the Northwest Political Security Bureau {{ill|Dai Jiying|zh|戴季英}}. He was taken to [[Yan’an]] and detained in Wangjiaba. In October, after [[Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party|CCP Chairman]] [[Mao Zedong]] arrived in northern Shaanxi, Xi was released and politically rehabilitated.<ref name=autogenerated13>{{cite web |url=http://dangshi.people.com.cn/GB/85038/7880593.html |last1=He |first1=Libo (何立波) |last2=Ma |first2=Hongmin (马红敏) |script-title=zh:"英雄一世，坎坷一生”的习仲勋" 中国共产党新闻>>党史频道>>人物长廊 |website=people.cn |language=zh-cn |access-date=2012-02-19}}</ref> Xi's guerrilla base in the Northwest gave refuge to Mao Zedong and the party center, and allowed them to end the [[Long March]]. It is said that Xi's "Revolutionary Base Area of the Northwest saved the Party Center and the Party Center saved the revolutionaries of the Northwest."<ref name=autogenerated13/> The base area eventually became the [[Yan'an Soviet]], the headquarters of the Chinese Communist movement until 1947.<ref name="v370">{{cite book | author=杨正辉 | title=聚焦主席台: 指点江山 (1949-1976) | publisher=湖南人民出版社 | date=2004 | isbn=978-7-5438-3721-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYodAQAAMAAJ| language=zh | access-date=2025-07-14 | page=162}}</ref>

In September 1935, Xi Zhongxun, together with {{ill|Liu Jingfan|zh|刘景范}} and others, went to [[Wazi Township|Wazichuan]] in Bao’an County to welcome the {{ill|25th Red Army|zh|中国工农红军第二十五军}} upon its arrival in northern Shaanxi after the [[Long March]]. Shortly thereafter, Xi was arrested in Wangjiaping, [[Ganquan County]], by {{ill|Zhu Lizhi|zh|朱理治}}—head of the CCP Northwest Delegation and Secretary of the {{ill|Shaanxi-Gansu-Suiyuan Provincial Committee|zh|中国共产党陕甘晋省委员会}}—along with Deputy Secretary {{ill|Guo Hongtao|zh|郭洪涛}} and Director of the Northwest Political Security Bureau {{ill|Dai Jiying|zh|戴季英}}. He was taken to [[Yan’an]] and detained in Wangjiaba. In October, after [[Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party|CCP Chairman]] [[Mao Zedong]] arrived in northern Shaanxi, Xi was released and politically rehabilitated.<ref name=autogenerated13>{{cite web |url=http://dangshi.people.com.cn/GB/85038/7880593.html |last1=He |first1=Libo (何立波) |last2=Ma |first2=Hongmin (马红敏) |script-title=zh:"英雄一世，坎坷一生”的习仲勋" 中国共产党新闻>>党史频道>>人物长廊 |website=people.cn |language=zh-cn |access-date=2012-02-19}}</ref> It is said that Xi's "Revolutionary Base Area of the Northwest saved the Party Center and the Party Center saved the revolutionaries of the Northwest."<ref name=autogenerated13/> The base area eventually became the [[Yan'an Soviet]], the headquarters of the Chinese Communist movement until 1947.<ref name="v370">{{cite book | author=杨正辉 | title=聚焦主席台: 指点江山 (1949-1976) | publisher=湖南人民出版社 | date=2004 | isbn=978-7-5438-3721-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYodAQAAMAAJ| language=zh | access-date=2025-07-14 | page=162}}</ref>

In January 1936, Xi Zhongxun was designated as Vice Chairman of the Soviet Government of the Central Shaanxi Special District and Secretary of the Party Group. Subsequent to the Northeast Army's occupation of the Central Shaanxi region in April, he assumed the role of Secretary of the [[CCP Central Shaanxi Working Committee]], persistently directing the efforts of the battle.<ref name="e979">{{cite book | title=陕西省志: 中囯共产党志. 第47卷 | publisher=陕西人民出版社 | date=2002 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e1Z0AAAAIAAJ| language=zh | access-date=2025-07-14 | page=313}}</ref> In June 1936, Xi participated in the Red Army's westward campaign, subsequently holding the positions of Secretary of the CCP Quhuan Working Committee and Secretary of the Huan County Committee. In September, he was once more assigned to Central Shaanxi by the Central Committee of the CCP, where he held the positions of Secretary of the Central Shaanxi Special Committee, Political Commissar of the Central Shaanxi Guerrilla Force, and Political Commissar of the Central Shaanxi Special District Command.<ref name="p659">{{cite book | title=陕西省志: 中囯共产党志. 第47卷 | publisher=陕西人民出版社 | date=2002 | url=https://books.google.com.kh/books?id=e1Z0AAAAIAAJ| language=zh | access-date=2025-07-14 | page=373}}</ref><ref name="l713">{{cite book | title=咸阳市军事志 | publisher=三秦出版社 | date=2002 | isbn=978-7-80628-571-8 | url=https://books.google.com.kh/books?id=VNw0AAAAMAAJ| language=zh | access-date=2025-07-14 | page=664}}</ref>

=== Sino-Japanese War ===

=== Sino-Japanese War ===