Wang Guofu (1922-1969) was born into a poor peasant
family in Shandong Province. Due to the exploitation of his family at
the hands of landlords and rich peasants, Wang was forced to spend his
childhood begging. At the age of twelve, fleeing famine, he became a
hired farmhand near Peking. After Liberation, he became a peasant cadre
in Daxing county, under Peking municipality. In 1952, he organized the
first mutual-aid team in his village, and in 1955, he took the lead in
setting up an agricultural producers' cooperative. That same year, Wang
was admitted into the Communist Party.
As a cadre and Party member, Wang was tireless in
his support for the policies formulated by the Government. Leading the
poor and lower-middle peasants, he followed Mao Zedong's call to learn
from Dazhai. He took an active part in the "raging flames of the revolutionary mass movement of the Cultural Revolution".
Being a true proletarian fighter, he always sacrificed his own
well-being in order to help others. When hospitalized in 1969 because
of a stomach illness which would prove fatal, he refused medication and
instead studied Mao's Quotations and the "Three Constantly Read Articles".
Having been made a model shortly after his death, he was remembered by
his dedication to "pull the cart of the revolution all the way to
communism and never slacken".
Source:
Outstanding Proletarian Fighters (Peking: Foreign Languages Press 1971)
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