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Place of Birth: Yanji, Jilin, China
About Li Yanlu
- Li Yanlu, ???, (1895–1985), soldier, communist, and leader of anti-Japanese forces in Manchuria.
- Li was born in Yenchi, Kirin (now Jilin) Province in April 1895.
- He became involved in the opposition to Yuan Shikai's attempt to restore the monarchy.
- He joined the Northeastern Army of the Fengtien clique in 1917, as a private soldier and rose to platoon leader then captain over the next sixteen years.
- Politically he moved to the left and in July 1931 he joined the Communist Party of China.
- Three months later the Japanese began the Mukden Incident and invasion of Manchuria.
- Avoiding capture and internment by the Japanese, he joined the volunteer army of Wang Delin.
- There Communists were welcomed and Li and Zhou Baozhong were made high-ranking officers.
- Li became the chief of staff of Wang's Chinese People's National Salvation Army one of the most successful of the volunteer armies resisting the Japanese and its puppet state of Manchukuo.
- He was also said to have been secretly organizing communists within the army.
- Yet Party policy at the time opposed the volunteer armies and the participation of members in them and had their own Northeastern People's Revolutionary Army.
- At first the Party severely criticised their conduct yet the stance of the Party prevented the growth of their own forces and did not help the anti-Japanese cause. In 1933, when Wang was defeated by the Japanese and fled Manchuria, Li remained with the remnant NSA forces, now dispersed in small guerrilla bands.
- There he organized a unit from former NSA troops for the Northeastern People's Revolutionary Army in the Ning'an area and continued the struggle against the Japanese.
- In 1934, there were still resistance forces estimated at 50,000 men still in the field.
- All the Communist Party units were reorganized into the single Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, with Zhao Shangzhi as its Commander-in-Chief.
- It was now to be open to all who wanted to resist the Japanese invasion and proclaimed its willingness to ally with all other anti-Japanese forces, this won over some of the shanlin bands, including former NSA units. In 1935, when the party officially changed policy, and began creating a united front, the army welcomed and absorbed most of the remaining anti-Japanese forces in Manchuria.
- The army was now organized into three Route Armies including Zhou Baozhong's 2nd Route Army in Kirin Province, where Li was an officer.
- From the fall of 1936 to 1938 Li was sent Shanghai and Nanjing to engage in Anti-Japanese United Front work.
- In 1939 was appointed to the Central Committee of the CCP Northeast Working Committee as a vice-president.
- He was responsible to train the cadre to be sent to operate in the Northeast.
- After the victory in the Sino-Japanese War he was made vice governor of Sungkiang province in Manchuria.
- After the People's Republic of China had been established, he was appointed Heilongjiang Province assistant deputy governor and was the province Political Consultative Conference vice-president.
- He died after an illness in 1985, after he composed his revolutionary reminiscences of Communist Party history.
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