Pan Fusheng

Pan Fusheng
潘复生
First Secretary of the Pingyuan Province Committee of the Communist Party
In office August 1949 – March 1950
Succeeded by	Wu De
First Secretary of the Henan Province Committee of the Communist Party
In office 1952–1958
Preceded by	Zhang Xi
Succeeded by	Wu Zhipu
First Secretary of the Heilongjiang Province Committee of the Communist Party (Head of Revolutionary Committee 1966–71)
In office 1965–1971
Preceded by	Ouyang Qin
Succeeded by	Wang Jiadao
Personal details
Born	December 1908 Wendeng, Shandong
Died	April 1980 (aged 71) Harbin, Heilongjiang
Political party	Communist Party of China

Pan Fusheng (Chinese: ; December 1908 – April 1980) was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician. He was the first party secretary of the short-lived Pingyuan Province of the People's Republic of China, and also served as the First Secretary (i.e. party chief) of Henan and Heilongjiang provinces.

During the Great Leap Forward, Pan sympathized with Marshal Peng Dehuai, a critic of Mao Zedong's collectivization policy. As a result, in 1958 he was dismissed as party chief of Henan and subjected to persecution, but was later rehabilitated.

When the Cultural Revolution began, Pan, then party chief of Heilongjiang province, embraced the rebel Red Guards movement and gained the support of Mao. However, he was soon involved in major factional violence, and was dismissed again in 1971 and put under investigation. In 1982, the Communist Party of China posthumously criticized him for committing "serious mistakes" during the Cultural Revolution.

Pan Fusheng was born in December 1908 to a poor peasant family in Wendeng, Shandong province. His original name was Liu Kaijun (Chinese: 刘开浚), and courtesy name Juchuan (巨川). Pan was an excellent student in Wendeng County Senior Elementary School, and was admitted to Wendeng County Normal School with the highest score in the entrance examination; however, he was later forced to drop out owing to poverty, and taught in a rural senior elementary school for five years.

In 1929, he was admitted to the Shandong Number One Rural Normal School, where he was influenced by communist classmates, and joined the Communist Party of China in 1931. After the Mukden Incident, which led to the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, Pan organized the Shandong students to join the anti-Japanese and anti-Kuomintang (KMT) protests in the capital Nanjing. In March 1932, he was arrested by the KMT government and held at the Jinan Number One Prison. He was sentenced to ten years for "endangering the Republic", but was released in late 1937, after the eruption of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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