Remarks Made to Peng Bai’s Mother
(November 16, 1956)

Source: JFJB (Nov. 17, 1956).

This remark was made at a reception for delegates to the national congress of family
members of revolutionary martyrs, family members of soldiers, disabled soldiers, demobilized service personnel, and activists for socialist construction.

Peng was an early member of the Communist Party whose work was primarily in the
area of organizing peasants in revolutionary activities. In 1923 he organized the Haifeng
Federation of Peasant Associations. He was elected to the Central Committee of the CPC
in April 1927 at the Fifth National Party Congress. In November of the same year, he
founded and became chairman of the Hailufeng Soviet government, which lasted only until
May 1928, when it was completely crushed by KMT troops. Peng was arrested in Shanghai
in August 1928 and was executed one year later. For biographical information on Peng Bai,
see H. Boorman et al., eds. (1970), III, pp. 70–73, and Zhonggong renming lu, appendix,
p. 93.

Comrade Peng Bai was our good comrade and you have been a good mother to us.