Soong Ching Ling's parents are both Christians. His father Song Yaoru went to America with his relatives when he was a teenager. /kloc-received a gift from the Methodist Church in North Carolina at the age of 0/4, and then went to Trinity College of Duke University in Wilmington, USA to study theology. A year later, he transferred to Vanderbilt University Theological School in Nashville, Tennessee to continue his theological research until graduation. 1886 returned to Shanghai to continue missionary activities and became a formal priest two years later. My mother is studying in Peiwen Women's College, which is run by the Anglican Church in Shanghai. After graduation, she taught in a missionary school and devoted herself to charity.
The process of Soong Ching Ling's education is also related to religion. When I was a teenager, I studied in Shanghai Chinese and Western Girls' School, which was the first fee-paying girls' school founded by foreign churches in China, and religious courses and activities accounted for a certain proportion. She spent her college life at Wesleyan Women's College, a private college affiliated to the United Methodist Church in Georgia, USA. Therefore, her thoughts and activities have obvious religious imprint and fraternity spirit of a certain class, which has played an important role in the formation of her world outlook.
The Revolution of 1911 overthrew the autocratic rule of the Qing Dynasty and made Soong Ching Ling, who was far away in the United States, look forward to the independence, freedom, democracy and prosperity of the motherland. Letters and newspaper clippings sent by her father set up a bridge in her heart for the revolutionary cause led by Sun Yat-sen.. However, the revolution was strangled in the cradle, the wave of revolution has subsided, and Soong Ching Ling's ambition of returning to China to reform and build the motherland has not been put into practice. In this case, Soong Ching Ling went straight to Tokyo, where exiled revolutionaries were concentrated, and soon became Sun Yat-sen's assistant, starting her 70-year revolutionary career.
19151kloc-0/On October 25th, Soong Ching Ling decided to marry Sun Yat-sen, who was in exile, regardless of her parents' opposition, and followed Sun Yat-sen on the road of hard struggle to defend the system with firm steps. 1925 March 12 Sun Yat-sen passed away in Beijing. He entrusted "peace, struggle and saving the country" to Soong Ching Ling and his comrades.
1927 In August, Soong Ching Ling visited the Soviet Union and lived in Europe for four years. He inspected the world's first socialist country and several major capitalist countries, studied Marx's works, and studied the core issues of the China Revolution-land and farmers with many China revolutionaries in exile in Europe, which made a qualitative leap in his thoughts.
When Japan's war of aggression against China continued to expand and ethnic contradictions rose to the main social contradictions, Soong Ching Ling made a judgment and made a decision, saying that "the national disaster is at the forefront and we should forget the past." The whole country must unite, resist Japan and strive for final victory. " She also paved the way for the second cooperation between the two sides and played an irreplaceable special role.
1949 September 2 1 30, the first plenary session of China People's Political Consultative Conference was held in Beijing, and Soong Ching Ling was elected as the vice chairman of the Central People's Government of People's Republic of China (PRC) and the standing committee member of the first China People's Political Consultative Conference.
1949 After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Soong Ching Ling undertook a lot of state affairs for a long time. At the same time, she devoted a lot of energy to culture, education, health and the welfare of women and children. Since then, she has served as honorary chairman of the All-China Democratic Women's Federation, honorary chairman of the All-China Women's Federation of People's Republic of China (PRC) and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People for the Defence of Children. 1950, she was elected to the World Peace Council. 1952, elected chairman of the Asia-Pacific Liaison Committee. 1954 In September, Soong Ching Ling was elected as the first vice chairman of the NPC Standing Committee. 1959 On April 7th, the first meeting of the Second National People's Congress was held, and Soong Ching Ling was elected as the vice chairman of People's Republic of China (PRC). 1965 10, the third national people's congress was held, and she once again served as the vice chairman of People's Republic of China (PRC). 1975 65438+ 10. In the 4th National People's Congress, she was re-elected as the vice chairman of the NPC Standing Committee. 1978 In February, the Fifth National People's Congress was re-elected as the vice chairman of the Standing Committee. 1August 30, 980, served as the executive chairman of the third session of the Fifth National People's Congress.
1981May14th, Soong Ching Ling suffered from coronary heart disease and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. On June 5438+05, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee announced that she accepted Soong Ching Ling as the official party member of China * * * Production Party. On June 6th, 65438, the NPC Standing Committee awarded Soong Ching Ling the honorary title of People's Republic of China (PRC). 198 1 passed away in Beijing at 20: 00 on May 29th, and was called the mother of the country by the people.
1893 65438+1On October 27th, Soong Ching Ling was born in a family of priests and industrialists in Shanghai. As a friend and comrade of Sun Yat-sen, her father was her first teacher. When she was a teenager, she was born in a foreign country and received "European education" and democratic baptism in the United States. The Revolution of 1911 overthrew the autocratic rule of the Qing Dynasty and made her look forward to the independence, freedom, democracy and prosperity of the motherland. Letters and newspaper clippings sent by her father set up a bridge in her heart for the revolutionary cause led by Sun Yat-sen.. However, * * * and the country have been strangled in the cradle, and the wave of revolution has subsided, and Soong Ching Ling's ambition to return to China to reform and build the motherland has not been put to good use. She went straight to Tokyo, where exiled revolutionaries were concentrated, and soon became Sun Yat-sen's assistant, starting her 70-year revolutionary career.
19151kloc-0/On October 25th, Soong Ching Ling decided to marry Sun Yat-sen, who was in exile, regardless of her parents' opposition, and followed Sun Yat-sen on the road of hard struggle to defend the system with firm steps. 1925 March 12 Sun Yat-sen passed away in Beijing. He entrusted "peace, struggle and saving the country" to Soong Ching Ling and his comrades.
1927 In August, Soong Ching Ling visited the Soviet Union and lived in Europe for four years. He inspected the world's first socialist country and several major capitalist countries, studied Marx's works, and studied the core issues of the China Revolution-land and farmers with many China revolutionaries in exile in Europe, which made a qualitative leap in his thoughts.
When the Japanese imperialist aggression against China continued to expand, ethnic contradictions rose to the main social contradictions, Soong Ching Ling quickly made a scientific judgment and made a correct decision, thinking that "the national disaster is just around the corner, and we should put aside our differences. The whole country must unite, resist Japan and strive for final victory. " Her thought of national unity in the Anti-Japanese War is consistent with the strategic policy of the China Producer Party to establish an anti-Japanese national united front, which overcomes the "Left" dogmatism. She also paved the way for the second cooperation between the two sides and played an irreplaceable special role.
1949 September 2 1 30, the first plenary session of China People's Political Consultative Conference was held in Beijing, and Soong Ching Ling was elected as the vice chairman of the Central People's Government of People's Republic of China (PRC) and the standing committee member of the first China People's Political Consultative Conference.
1949 After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Soong Ching Ling undertook a lot of state affairs for a long time. At the same time, she devoted a lot of energy to culture, education, health and the welfare of women and children. Since then, she has served as honorary chairman of the All-China Democratic Women's Federation, honorary chairman of the All-China Women's Federation of People's Republic of China (PRC) and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People for the Defence of Children. 1950, she was elected to the World Peace Council. 1952, elected chairman of the Asia-Pacific Liaison Committee.
1954 In September, Soong Ching Ling was elected as the first vice chairman of the NPC Standing Committee. 1959 On April 7th, the first meeting of the Second National People's Congress was held, and Soong Ching Ling was elected as the vice chairman of People's Republic of China (PRC). 1965 10, the third national people's congress was held, and she once again served as the vice chairman of People's Republic of China (PRC). 1975 65438+ 10. In the 4th National People's Congress, she was re-elected as the vice chairman of the NPC Standing Committee. 1978 In February, the Fifth National People's Congress was re-elected as the vice chairman of the Standing Committee. 1August 30, 980, served as the executive chairman of the third session of the Fifth National People's Congress.
1981May14th, Soong Ching Ling suffered from coronary heart disease and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. On June 5438+05, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee announced that she accepted Soong Ching Ling as the official party member of China * * * Production Party. On June 6th, 65438, the NPC Standing Committee awarded Soong Ching Ling the honorary title of People's Republic of China (PRC). 198 1 passed away in Beijing at 20: 00 on May 29th.
Soong Ching Ling is a great fighter of patriotism, democracy, internationalism and productism, and a world-famous great woman in the 20th century. 19 13, graduated from Soong Ching Ling University with a bachelor of arts. She resolutely returned to China with patriotic enthusiasm and the ideal of rejuvenating China, and devoted herself to the democratic revolutionary struggle of "seeking freedom and equality in China".
In the early days of the People's Republic of China, Soong Ching Ling presided over the establishment of the English version of China Construction magazine to convey the real situation of the people of China to the people of the world. Today's China Construction (now named China Today) has increased from 1 English edition to 7 language editions, and has been distributed to more than 50 countries and regions in the world. In the long and arduous struggle of the China revolution, she stood firmly on the side of China's * * * production party. China * * * Party leaders Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi, Zhu De and other comrades have always regarded her as their close comrades-in-arms, comrades-in-arms and proletarian vanguard fighters. 1981may 15, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee decided to accept her as party member of China producers' party, and on June 16, the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) decided to award her the title of honorary chairman of People's Republic of China (PRC).
When she was young, she followed Sun Yat-sen and joined the revolution. In her revolutionary career of nearly 70 years, she was indomitable, determined and fought bravely. She has always stood firmly with the people of China and the China Production Party, and worked hard for the liberation of the people of China, the health care and cultural and educational welfare of women and children, the reunification of the motherland, safeguarding world peace and promoting human progress.
1981On May 29th, Soong Ching Ling died in her Beijing apartment. According to her last words, the ashes were buried in the east side of her parents' mausoleum in Shanghai Wanguo Cemetery. China * * * production party, National People's Congress the State Council wrote an inscription for her:
Her great achievements for the country and the people will go down in history forever.