Xie Xuehong

Xie Xuehong, female, Han nationality, native of Zhanghua, Taiwan, born in Zhanghua in September 1901.

Xie joined the Cultural Association, a Taiwan progressive organization in Taizhong, took part in the May 30th movement in Shanghai in 1925, joined the Chinese Communist Party in the same year, left for Moscow to study in the Oriental University in the end of that year, and returned to China in December 1927. She joined in organizing the Taiwan ethnic branch of the Japanese Communist Party in Shanghai (i.e., the former Communist Party of Taiwan) and was elected an alternate member of the Central Committee, and shortly after that, she returned to Taiwan to take part in revolutionary activities there. She was thrown into prison in 1931 owing to the disruption of the Taiwan Communist organization by the reactionaries and after her release from prison in 1939, Xie started a business. After the Japanese surrender in 1945, Xie initiated the organization of the People's Association, Peasants Association and was elected a member of the central Committee of those organizations. In the "February 28 Uprising," she was a leader in Taizhong region. After the Uprising failed, she went to Shanghai, then to Hong Kong and rejoined the Communist Party of China. In November of that year, she joined in forming the Taiwan Self-Government League and was elected the Chairperson of it.

Xie attended the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in 1949 and was elected a member of the CPPCC National Committee. Xie was a deputy to the first National People's Congress convened in Beijing in 1954.

Xie was once a member of the East China Military and Political Commission, member of the Political and Legal Committee of the Administrative Council, vice president of the All China Democratic Youth Federation, member of the Executive Committee of the All-China Women's Federation, and chairperson of the First Headquarters Council of the Taiwan Self-Government League.

Xie Xuehong died of illness in Beijing in November 1970.

Cai Xiao

Cai Xiao, male, Han nationality, native of Tainan, Taiwan, born in Tainan in 1919.

Cai Xiao left Taiwan for Fujian in 1934 and joined the revolution in August 1937, first in the second guerilla detachment of the Red Army of Western Fujian in Longyan, Fujian, and joined the Communist Party of China in 1938. He was appointed platoon leader, company leader, battalion commander, division operation section leader, regiment commander, vice division commander and president of an air force school. He was decorated Order of Independence and Liberty, Second Class and Order of Liberation, Third Class, in 1955 and Honorary Medal of Independence of the People's Liberation Army in 1988.

After the founding of New China, he assumed the office of a department leader of the Shanghai Military Control Commission in charge of the training of cadres from Taiwan. Later he was transferred to the Air Force. During the "Cultural Revolution" he was subjected to persecution of "isolated investigation" by the "Gang of Four" for five years. In November 1973, he was appointed to the office of deputy chief of the Mass Work of the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army, and in July 1975, he was appointed deputy chief of the Liaison Department of the PLA General Political Department.

He was elected a member of the tenth and eleventh Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and a deputy to the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth Party Congress. He was on the Standing Committee of the CPPCC fifth and sixth National Committee and concurrently deputy secretary general of the CPPCC National Committee. He was Chairperson of the Second Headquarters Council of the Taiwan Self-Government League and chief of the Taiwan Sports Work Liaison Department of the Sports Association of the People's Republic of China.

Cai Xiao died of illness in Beijing in 1990.

 Su Ziheng

Su Ziheng, male, Han nationality, native of Zhanghua of Taiwan, born in Zhanghua in October 1905.

Su joined the patriotic students' activities opposing imperialists when he studied in Japan in his youth. He joined the Chinese Communist Party on the recommendation of Pang Da'en, a branch secretary of the general branch of the Chinese Communists in Japan in January 1928. He suffered from persecution at the hands of the Japanese authorities and illness forced him to stop his studies and return to Taiwan for medical treatment. In 1935 he again went to Japan to continue his interrupted studies and in 1937 he returned to Taiwan after graduation from college. He was invited to teach in the School of Science and Engineering of Beijing University as associated professor in Chemistry in 1941. He went to Zhangjiakou in Hebei Province in 1945 to work as director and researcher of the Chemistry Institute of the Industrial Department of the Communist led Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Area. In 1951 he attended the All-China Conference of Natural Scientists in the capacity of a representative of Taiwan compatriots. He was transferred to the post of the Section Leader of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry under the Planning Bureau of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1952. He became a research fellow of the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1955 and a research fellow of the Institute of Photosensitive Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1975. He attended the 1978 National Science Congress as a member of the Taiwan delegation.

He joined the Taiwan Self-Government League in 1949 and in September of the same year he was entrusted by the League to form a special branch of the League in Lushun-Dalian as chief of the preparatory committee. When the special branch of the League came into being in April 1950, he was elected deputy director of the special branch. Then in 1979, he was elected vice chairperson of the second general council of the Taiwan Self-Government League. In 1983 he was elected chairperson of the third Headquarters Council of the League. He was an honorary chairperson of the fourth and fifth Headquarters Council of the League.

He attended as an observer of the third session of the second CPPCC in February 1956 and later was elected member of the Third National Committee of the CPPCC, member of the Standing Committee of the fifth, sixth and seventh CPPCC National Committee and member of the eighth CPPCC.

He died of illness in Beijing in 1996.

 Cai Zimin

Cai Zimin (originally named Cai Qingrong), male, Han nationality, native of Zhanghua, Taiwan, born in Zhanghua in June 1920.

He joined the Communist Party of China in December 1947 and the Taiwan Self-Government League in July 1949. Graduated from the Department of Politics of Waseda University of Japan, served the post of President of the fourth and fifth Presidium of the TSL.

He studied in the department of politics of Waseda University of Japan from April 1939 to September 1943 and served as editor in chief of the Overseas Chinese Daily in Tokyo between August 1945 and May 1946. He returned to Taiwan to found the "Liberty Journal" in August 1946 and served as its editor in chief till February 1947. In that period, he took part in the "February 28" Uprising and joined in penning the "Outline for the Resolution of the February 28 Event". He came to Shanghai in April 1947 and worked as the secretary general of the Association of Taiwanese in shanghai. In December of the same year, he joined the Chinese Communist Party.

After the founding of New China, Cai Zimin began his career on the editorial staff of the radio broadcasting service for Taiwan and worked on that post for ten years. He was in the office of secretary general of the Taiwan Affairs Committee of the East China Bureau of the Communist Party of China from August 1949 through August 1954. Between August 1954 and 1960, he worked with the Taiwan Department of the Central People's Broadcasting Station.

In 1960 he was transferred to the Japanese Section of the Foreign Cultural Liaison Commission of the CPC Central Committee to serve the cause of enhancing friendly cultural ties between China and Japan, became the section chief in September 1962, and then was transferred to the Chinese Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries as chief of the Asian section there. He was appointed deputy director of the Foreign Liaison Department of the Ministry of Culture in 1979 and acted as a cultural attach of the Chinese embassy in Japan between 1981 and 1985.

He was a member on the second and third Standing Council of the General Headquarters of the League beginning in October 1979. After completing his diplomatic mission, Cai returned to serve as the head of the publicity department of the League headquarters in 1985. He was elected a member of the presidium of the fourth Central Committee of the League in 1987 and became executive chairperson of it the following year. He was elected Chairperson of the fifth Central Committee of the League in 1992 and honorary president at the sixth Central Committee of the League.

He was a deputy to the fifth NPC and a member of the Standing Committee of the sixth, seventh and eighth NPC. He was a standing committee member of the ninth national committee of the CPPCC and deputy director of its Commission for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs and Vice Chairperson of the China Association for Friendly Relations with Overseas Chinese.

He died of illness in Beijing on April 11, 2003.

 Zhang Kehui

Zhang Kehui, male, Han nationality, born in Zhanghua city, Taiwan, in February 1928, studied in the department of economics of Xiamen University. He jointed the Communist Party of China in November 1948 and the Taiwan Self-Government League in March 1979. He is now vice chairperson of the National Committee of the CPPCC, honorary chairperson of the TSL Central Committee, vice chairperson of the China Association for Peaceful Reunification and honorary chairperson of the All-China Federation of Taiwan Compatriots.

He studied in the Senior Commercial School in Zhanghua, Taiwan, between 1942 and 1947 and the Taiwan Normal University between 1947 and 1948. After studying in the department of economics of Xiamen University between 1948 and 1949, he joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army and was later promoted to the position of company leader and deputy political instructor of the 14th Independent Company of the Fourth Regiment of the PLA Fujian-Guangdong-Jiangxi Column. Between 1949 and 1951 he was political instructor of the People's Public Security Detachment of Anxi County and then section leader of the County Public Security Bureau. In 1951 and 1952, he studied at the cadres school of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee, served as a land reform team leader of the CPC Provincial Committee and then studied in the Provincial Party School. He worked as cadre and section leader of the United Front Department of the CPC Fujian Committee between 1952 and 1969. After working in the countryside for a period from 1969 to 1973, he was appointed deputy team leader of the propaganda team of the Ninghua County Revolutionary Committee. He worked as an interpreter in the Foreign Affairs Department of the Fujian Provincial Revolutionary Committee between 1973 and 1978.

He was promoted to the position of vice secretary general of the Fujian People's Political Consultative Conference, deputy director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, deputy secretary general of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Fujian Provincial Government, chairperson of the TSL of Fujian and vice chairperson of the Fujian Association of Friendship of Taiwan Compatriots between 1978 and 1982. He was elected onto the Standing Committee and appointed chief of the United Front Department of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the CPC, vice chairperson of the Fujian CPPCC, President of the Socialist Academy, and deputy director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council between 1982 and 1991. He was then elected chairperson of the Association of Friendship of Taiwan Compatriots , adviser to the Association of Relations between the Straits, and vice chairperson of the TSL Central Committee between 1991 and 1997. He served as Chairperson of the TSL Central Committee from 1997 through 2005 and since then he has been honorary chairperson of the League. He was elected vice chairperson of the CPPCC National Committee and chairperson of the China Association for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification in 1998. He was elected honorary chairperson of the League in December 2005.

He was vice chairperson of the ninth and tenth Central Committee of the CPPCC, member of the eighth Standing Committee of the NPC and vice chairperson of the committee of internal affairs and legal affairs there.

 Lin Wenyi

Lin Wenyi, female, Han nationality, native of Taiwan, Taiwan, born in Qingdao, Shandong, in September 1944, graduated from the engineering dynamics department of Qinghua University, holding the title of PhD of Engineering, honorary doctorate degree of law. She is now chairperson of the TSL Central Committee, member of the Standing Committee and deputy secretary general, and member of the committee of education, science, culture and public health of the NPC, vice chairperson of the Standing Committee of the Beijing People's Congress, chairperson of the Science and Technology Committee of the 29th International Olympic Games, vice chairperson of the All-China Federation of Overseas Chinese, member of the Executive Committee of the All-China Women's Federation, professor of Qinghua University and doctorate tutor.

She studied in the Engineering Dynamics Department of Qinghua University between 1962 and 1968, underwent "tempering through labor" in the countryside and factories between 1968 and 1973. Then she served internship in the Plasma Physics Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences between 1973 and 1978. She went to Qinghua University to pursue a master course in engineering dynamics in 1978 till 1981. In Qinghua University between 1981 and 1996, she started from a teaching assistant to lecturer, associate professor, professor, and finally doctorate tutor, a research and teaching section deputy leader and deputy director of the department of engineering dynamics. And in the period between 1985 and 1988 she pursued a doctorate course in the Liverpool University in Britain and won Ph.D. degree of Engineering in Qinghua in December 1988 and was granted a doctorate degree of law by the Liverpool University in July 2002.

She joined the Taiwan Self-Government League in December 1990 and was elected vice chairperson of the sixth Standing Committee of the league in March 1992. She served a series of official posts in the Beijing Municipal government as deputy director of the Bureau of Education, vice chairperson of the Educational Commission, and mayor assistant between 1949 and 1996. She served as vice mayor of Beijing between 1996 and 2003.  She was elected vice chairperson of the Standing Committee of the Beijing People's Congress in February 2003 and member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and appointed deputy secretary general of the NPC Standing Committee in March of the same year. She was council member of the seventh and eighth TSL Standing Committee between 1997 and 2004 and vice chairperson of the sixth Central Committee of the TSL between 1997 and 2002, and vice chairperson and then executive vice chairperson of the seventh Standing Committee of the TSL between 2002 and 2005, and elected chairperson of the Central Committee of the League in December 2005.

She has been a member of the ninth National Committee of the CPPCC, member and deputy secretary general of the tenth Standing Committee of the CPPCC, member of the eighth Beijing PPCC, deputy to the eleventh Beijing People's Congress and vice chairperson of the Standing Committee of the twelfth Beijing People's Congress.