Wang Jiayou

Wang Jiayou — biography

Wang Jiayou (April 2, 1925 -), male, native of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, political figure of the People's Republic of China. In his early years, he was influenced by his elder brother Wang Jiamo and came into contact with the revolution. In 1943, 18-year-old Wang Jiayou skipped his senior year of high school and entered the first-year Civil Engineering Department of Nanjing Central University. He also met Jiang Zemin, who was also admitted to Central University from Yangzhou Middle School. Because they both belonged to the Polytechnic Institute, they quickly got to know each other. Wang Jiayou joined the Youth National Salvation Society organized by his brother Wang Jiamo, and together with Jiang Zemin launched a drug eradication campaign against the proliferation of drugs in Nanjing at that time. In the late autumn of 1944, the Jiangnan District Party Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Sixth Division of the New Fourth Army, in accordance with the instructions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, decided to send Li Difei, an enemy cadre, to sneak into Nanjing and secretly organize an "underground army" to prepare for an armed uprising when conditions were ripe. Cooperate with the New Fourth Army outside the city to seize Nanjing. After Li Difei came to Nanjing, he adopted the pseudonym Li Yongfu and began to form an underground army by relying on the underground party organization of the Chinese Communist Party and his relationships with relatives and friends. Li Difei found Li Enyu and Wang Jiamo through Shu Cheng, the head of the Nanjing Underground Party Committee, and the two of them approached Wang Jiayou and others to participate. In August 1945, the three people joined the Youth Group of the Anti-Enemy Support Association and entered the Nanjing Liaison Station of the Southeast Commissioner's Office of the Kuomintang Military Commission, obtained guns and ammunition, and found out about the bunkers in Nanjing city.

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