POLITICAL - COMMUNIST YOUTH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600230825-1
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• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 825
• Publication Date: June 24, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Political - Communist youe:r
COUN) RY
HOW
WHERE
PUBLISHED Shang-hai
DATE
PUBLISHED
LANGUAGE
16 Apr 1949
Chinese
.DEPORT
CD NO.
DATE OF .
INFORMA"fiON 19 ,9
DATE DIST.7 Jun 1949
NO. OF PAGES 1
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS 1$ UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
FSIO WMffi-P.TN TO LZAD
U DD1OCRACY YOUTH
The Youth Movement in a very important phase of Chinese Communist Party
(jrganisation. Formerly known as Communist Youth, it is now known as the Now
Democracy Youth Movement.
The Peiping radio of 11 April givea an account of the organization's
first national convention, which was attended by 340 delegate, repree+nting
139,800 member.. Tht meeting adopted a constitution, laid plus for work,
and elected an executive committee. The convention 'bairmaa Yes Fong Wen-pin.
(Ueda: 13,682, 4,321, 3,112).
As with the Sez Min Chu I Youth Corps of the EIS, the chairmen or Party
Leader is the titular head of the Youth Group, but its actual "esponsible ~~.
officer !.s the General decretary, to which pobt Fong Wen-pin was elected by
the convention.
Fong has been a highs, -placed leader of youth among the Communists for a
long time. Re is now 40 years old, a native of Chu-chi, in Chekiang. He Joined
the ENT in 1926, and the Communist Youth in 1927. In 1930, he vent to the
Soviet Region in west Fukien, and was soon engaged in youth Mork in the Fourth
Army.
In 1933, the International Legion of Young Communists was organized, in
which he was made political commissar. Later he became secretary of the Cen-
tral Committee of Communist Youth. In 1937, the Youth Group was abolished,
and he became chairman of the youth movement of the CCP. He met up at An-vu
Pao in San-yuan County of tiher-41 a youth training quarters where several
thousand youth were trained. Later he was sent to Yenan for further in-
deotrination or to battle areas or the rear for work, to extend the youth
movement, and urill many student cadres for the Central Committee. In 1945,
he was elected a mentor of the Central Committee and now is leader of their
youth work.
leng 1,9 olvar-headed and affabls, with a flair for youth work Be has
a high place in both Party and Army, but it was bought with the sacrifice of
many lives and the future by countleie numbers of young men.
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