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Li Menghua (1922-2010), a native of Pingshan, Hebei Province, participated in the revolution when he was young and engaged in youth movement work for a long time. In 1950, he was deputy secretary of the Southwest Working Committee of the China New Democratic Youth League, director of the Southwest Office of the All-China Youth Federation and deputy director of the Southwest Sports Committee. In 1954, he became the director of the Sports Competition Department of the State Sports Commission. In 1956, he served as vice president of All-China Sports Federation and chairman of Chinese Swimming Association, Chinese Wushu Association and Chinese Weiqi Association. In 1960, he was appointed deputy director of the State Sports Commission. He was appointed vice president of the Chinese Olympic Committee in 1979. 1981-1988 Director of the State Sports Commission. He has led many Chinese sports delegations to participate in major international sports competitions and attended international sports conferences. In 1980, he led the delegation to the 13th Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, USA. In 1984, he led the delegation to Los Angeles to participate in the 23rd Summer Olympic Games. He was elected to the Fifth National People's Congress in 1978. He was awarded the Gold Medal by the International Wrestling Federation in June 1984. He was the Executive Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the 11th Asian Games from 1985 to 1988. In March 1986, he was appointed president of the Chinese Olympic Committee and the All-China Sports Federation. On July 6, 1988, he was awarded the "Gold Medal and Certificate of Excellence" by the Asian Weightlifting Federation. In 1988, he was the head of the Chinese delegation to the 24th Olympic Games. He retired in December 1988. In 1989, he was re-elected president of the All-China Sports Federation and made great contributions to the development of Chinese sports. He was awarded the Olympic Silver Medal by the International Olympic Committee. He died in Beijing in 2010 at the age of 88.
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- Chinese name
- Li Menghua
- nationality
- China
- Be educated and educated
- Pingshan in Hebei Province
- Date of birth
- The year 1922
- Date of death
- November 9, 2010
- Political status
- CPC member
- gender
- male
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On November 10, 1922, Li Menghua was born into a farmer's family in Pingshan County, Hebei Province. In September 1936, 14-year-old Li Menghua graduated from primary school and was admitted to Pingshan County Simple Normal school with excellent results. In November 1937, influenced by progressive ideas, he joined the 35th Brigade propaganda team of the Eighth Route Army and served as a propagandist. In January 1938, he joined the Communist Party of China and was appointed by the District Committee as Party Branch secretary and Central District Branch secretary of Hequ Village, Pingshan County.
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Soon, was transferred to Pingshan County Party district Committee as an organization member, publicity member. In 1939, he began to engage in the party's youth work, and successively served as the Minister of Youth Department of Pingshan County Party Committee and the instructor of the Youth anti-Japanese National Salvation Vanguard team, the director of the Youth Committee of Beiyue District Party Committee, and the secretary of the Youth branch of the Party School of the District Party Committee. In 1941, he successively served as deputy secretary of the Youth Committee of Beiyue District Jinbei Northeast Special Area, Director of the Youth anti-Japanese Salvation Congress, Minister of Organization Department and Minister of Youth of the anti-Japanese National Salvation Federation of all circles in the Special Area, Director of Regional office of Jinbei Northeast Special Area Guoshan Mountain and deputy director of the special Area Resistance Union. In July 1945, he worked as a reporter in the Jijin News Agency of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Area, and later took over as the head of the Organization Department of the Youth Federation of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Area. During this period, he went to the countryside to participate in land reform and served as deputy secretary of Wuzhuang District Party Committee of Jizhongding County. In August 1948, he was transferred to the Youth League Central League School and successively served as deputy Section chief and director of the School Affairs Department.
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Li Menghua (left)
From November 1950 to November 1954, Li Menghua served as the Minister of the Youth Labor Department of the Southwest Working Committee of the Youth League, the minister of the Military Sports Department, the secretary-general of the Southwest General Branch of the National Sports Federation, and the secretary of the General Party branch of the organ. In April 1953, he served as deputy secretary of the Southwest Working Committee of the Youth League, director of the Southwest District Office of the National Democratic Youth Federation, deputy director of the Sports Committee of the Southwest Administrative Committee, and was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Youth League and the Central Committee of the National Democratic Youth Federation. Responsible for the preparation of the first People's Sports Conference in Southwest China, the formation of Southwest volleyball team, football team and track and field team, and made important contributions to the development of Southwest sports. In November 1954, after the central government abolished the big administrative region, Comrade Li Menghua was transferred to the Director of the Sports Competition Department of the State Sports Commission. in
He Long
Under the leadership of comrades, he and his colleagues worked hard to start their own business and strive for self-improvement, laying a solid foundation for the development of New China's sports cause. In December 1960, Comrade Li Menghua was appointed deputy Director of the State Sports Commission.
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In July 1961, he published a special article "Play style, play level" in the "Sports newspaper". From July 3-29, 1962, he led the Chinese Weiqi delegation to visit Japan. On November 11, the Chinese Weiqi Association was established in Hefei, Anhui province. The association elected Vice Premier Chen Yi as its honorary president and Li Menghua as its first president.
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On December 4-5, 1964, according to the instructions of He Long, presided over the national training work conference in Shanghai, at which the Japanese women's volleyball training competition was observed, and the principle of implementing the "three from one" (from difficulty, strict, from actual combat, large amount of exercise training) and the "three fear" (not afraid of fatigue, not afraid of pain, not afraid of injury) were determined. "Five excellent" (thought, body, technology, training, competition) training style. From April 15 to 25, 1965, he served as deputy head of the Chinese Table Tennis delegation to participate in the 28th World Table Tennis Championships held in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. Chinese players won five gold MEDALS. After the competition, he led some athletes of the delegation to visit Yugoslavia, Greece, UAE and Pakistan respectively.
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After the outbreak of the "Cultural Revolution" in 1966, it was attacked and persecuted. He was first detained, then sent to Shanxi Province to supervise the "May 7th" cadre school, and resumed work in 1971. In April 1972, he served as deputy head and Party branch secretary of the Chinese Table Tennis delegation visiting the United States. "Ping-pong diplomacy" has played a positive role in building a bridge of friendship between the Chinese and American people. From March 26 to April 21, 1973, he served as the head of the Chinese Table Tennis delegation to attend the 32nd World Table Tennis Championships in Yugoslavia. The men's and women's teams won the second place, and the men's singles, women's singles and mixed doubles won the championship. In June 1974, in the "Criticism of Lin and Kong", Jiang Qing said that "the Sports committee should focus on Wang Meng and Li Menghua, especially to isolate Li Menghua, his power is too big", and was once again "overthrown". On March 5, 1978, he was elected as a deputy to the National People's Congress and attended the Fifth National People's Congress in Beijing. In March, he was again appointed deputy director of the State Sports Commission by the Central Government.
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On September 10, 1981, the 20th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress approved the appointment and removal of Li Menghua as director of the State Sports Commission. From February 12 to 24, 1980, he served as the head of the Chinese Winter Sports delegation to participate in the 13th Winter Olympic Games held in Lake Placid, USA, which was the first time for Chinese winter sports to participate in the Winter Olympics. In June 1982, at the report meeting of the Director of the National Sports Commission, he made a summary speech on the construction of spiritual civilization, the construction of excellent sports teams and a number of issues that needed to be clarified at that time. From September 1 to 11, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee at the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. From February 23 to March 4, 1983, he presided over a meeting of the National Sports Union in Beijing, at which he discussed the future goals of sports and the recent work. In the concluding speech, it was especially emphasized that "school sports and amateur training should be taken as a strategic focus." On September 18, the 5th National Games was grandly held in Shanghai. As the director of the Organizing Committee of the National Games and the director of the National Sports Commission, he presided over the opening ceremony. On October 1, he delivered the closing speech for the successful closing of the 5th National Games. From November 1 to 5, the National Amateur sports School advanced collective and individual commendation conference was held in Beijing, Li Menghua attended and awarded.
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On March 30, 1984, in order to strengthen the research on sports development strategy and further create a new situation in China's sports cause, the State Sports Commission decided to establish a sports development Strategy Research Committee, with Li Menghua as the director. From July 16 to 25, he served as the head of the Chinese Sports delegation and led a delegation to Los Angeles to participate in the 23rd Olympic Games. Chinese athletes won 15 gold MEDALS, achieving the breakthrough of "zero" gold MEDALS in China's participation in the Olympic Games, and made a historic major achievement. On September 18, the seventh meeting of the Standing Committee of the Sixth National People's Congress reported the Chinese sports delegation's participation in the 23rd Olympic Games.
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On March 25, 1985, with the approval of The State Council, the Organizing Committee of the 11th Asian Games was formally established, with Li Menghua as the executive chairman. On March 15-16, 1986, the Standing Committee of the General Committee of Sports of China and the Executive Committee of the Chinese Olympic Committee held a joint meeting in Beijing. The meeting unanimously elected Li Menghua as the chairman of the All-China Sports Federation and the Chinese Olympic Committee. On September 10, for the "Sports newspaper" wrote "noble profession, glorious task", to the national physical education teachers congratulations on Teachers' Day. In May 1987, the 92nd plenary session of the IOC Executive Board passed a resolution awarding Li Menghua the Olympic Order in recognition of his contribution to the development of sports in China.
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From May 25 to 27, 1988, he led a Chinese congratulatory delegation to participate in the celebration of the successful joint climbing of Mount Qomolangma between China, Japan and Nepal held in Kathmandu, Nepal. On June 3, 1988, he attended the celebration in Beijing and presented awards to the meritorious personnel. On June 27, attended the tea party to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the founding of "Sports News" and renamed "China Sports News", and wrote a special congratulatory article. On July 14, he issued a statement welcoming the decision of the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee to send a delegation to the 11th Asian Games to be held in Beijing in 1990, and hoped that mainland athletes would come to Taiwan to compete. On December 29, according to the decision of the fifth session of the Standing Committee of the Seventh National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China, Li Menghua was removed from the post of director of the State Sports Commission.
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On March 26, 1989, a training course for sports administrators sponsored by the International Olympic Committee was held in Beijing. At the closing ceremony, Chinese Olympic Committee President Li Menghua and other accepted the special certificate issued by the International Olympic Committee President Samaranch. On October 3, 1990, the founding conference of the International Wushu Federation was held in Beijing. The conference elected Li Menghua as the first president of the International WUF. On March 26, 1993, at the sixth plenary meeting of the first session of the eighth CPPCC National Committee, he was elected to the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee.
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May 24-31, attended the International Wushu Federation Executive Committee meeting held in Chengdu. January 7-11, 1997, attended the fifth batch of national sports advanced counties naming and commendation conference. On January 16, at the sixth National Congress of the All-China Sports Federation, he was elected honorary president of the All-China Sports Federation. In May 2002, in the ceremony to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Chinese Table Tennis team and the Chinese Table Tennis Association, Li Ruihuan, then the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and the Chairman of the CPPCC, presented the highest honorary awards to Li Menghua, Rong Gaotang and other seven leaders. On July 9, 2003, the plenary session of the Chinese Olympic Committee was held in Xianghe, Hebei Province, and he was appointed as the honorary president of the Chinese Olympic Committee.
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On November 9, 2010, Li Menghua, former Director of the Physical Education and Sports Commission of the People's Republic of China and secretary of the Party Leadership Group, died in Beijing at the age of 88. During the period of Comrade Li Menghua's serious illness and after his death, the relevant leading comrades of the Central Committee expressed condolences and condolences in different ways.
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