Dong Biwu (1886 – April 2, 1975), formerly known as Dong Xianqing, also known as Dong Yongwei, was a native of Huang'an (now Hong'an) County, Hubei Province.
In the autumn of 1920, Dong Biwu, Chen Tanqiu and other comrades established the early organization of the Communist Party in Wuhan. Subsequently, in Wuhan, the Socialist Youth League and the Marxist Theory Research Association were established, women's reading clubs and youth reading clubs were organized to disseminate new ideas, and competent comrades were sent to the workers to hold night schools and literacy classes to propagate Marxism-Leninism to the workers. Under the leadership of Dong Biwu and other comrades, revolutionary activities in Wuhan gradually became active.
In July and August 1921, Comrade Dong Biwu attended the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and later served as a member of the Wuhan District Executive Committee and the Hubei District Executive Committee.
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei betrayed the revolution one after another, and the vigorous Great Revolution was defeated.
Under the circumstances of the increasingly serious white terror, Comrade Dong Biwu crossed east to Japan according to the instructions of the Party.
In 1928, the party organization sent him to the Soviet Union to study.
After returning to China in 1932, he entered the central revolutionary base area, and successively served as the provost and vice president of the Marxist Communist School, the secretary of the Central Party Affairs Committee, and the president of the Supreme Court, and paid a lot of hard work for the cadre education, discipline inspection and supervision work, and legal system construction in the Central Soviet Region.
In October 1934, Comrade Dong Biwu, who was nearly half a hundred years old, participated in the Long March, and with extraordinary courage and perseverance, he led the cadres of the logistics department health brigade, including dozens of female soldiers of the Red Army, to recuperate more than 100 people, and completed the Long March after all kinds of difficulties and dangers.
Of the thirteen deputies to the CPC, only Dong Biwu and Mao Zedong persisted until the final victory of the revolution.
After the founding of New China, Dong Biwu was one of the important leaders of the party and the state.
On April 2, 1975, Elder Dong completed the road of life and died at the age of 90.