A Red capitalist who wanted to join the Party four times and quit three times revealed the truth about the Chinese Communist Party in his last words

Rong Yiren, deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee, asked to resign from the party three times

During the Republican era, Rong’s enterprises were famous. The two brothers Rong Zongjing and Rong Desheng started from nothing and established more than 20 private enterprises in Wuxi and Shanghai, and were known as the “Flour King” and “Cotton King” for decades, which had a profound impact on China’s national economy. He had a profound impact on China’s national economy. Rong Desheng’s son was Rong Yiren, who was called the “Red Capitalist” by the Chinese Communist Party.

During the late Communist civil war, the Kuomintang’s monetary and price restriction policies caused serious inflation and a major shock to the Rong family. Shanghai industrialists moved their capital overseas to find a new way out, and the Rong family was no exception. Rong Zongjing’s eldest son Rong Hongyuan, Rong HonSan, Rong Honqing and Rong DeSheng’s sons Rong Erren and Rong Yanren left Shanghai one after another, while Rong DeSheng and Rong Yiren decided to stay on the mainland after repeated deliberations.

Due to their special background, Rong Desheng and Rong Yiren were supported and reused by the Chinese Communist Party at the beginning, such as providing raw materials, purchasing products for commissioning and processing, etc. Rong Yiren also served as a member of the Finance Committee of the Military Commission of East China, Vice Mayor of Shanghai, Vice Chairman of the Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Textile Industry, and Vice Chairman of the First to Fourth Central Committee of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong. However, in 1956, he had to hand over all 56 textile and flour mills, which were the assets of his ancestors, to the Chinese Communist Party for the purpose of consolidating power, under the banner of “implementing public-private partnership in private industry and commerce” but in fact forcibly plundering private enterprises. Chen Yi, then mayor of Shanghai, took him as a role model in a general meeting and declared that “Rong Yiren is a red capitalist”.

I don’t know if it was because he had seen the miserable fate of the entrepreneurs around him, or because he had already understood the viciousness of the Chinese Communist Party, but Rong Yiren applied for membership four times, but was not approved until he was 69 years old in 1985.

According to Hong Kong’s Trend magazine, Rong Yiren first applied for membership in June 1951, when he was 35 years old and a member of the Finance Committee of the East China Military Commission. Chen Yi advised him in a very revealing way: “It’s more convenient for you to stay outside the Party, you can do more, and in another 10 years, when you have your 45th birthday, I will be your introducer to the Party.”

In December 1957, Rong Yiren, who had experienced the “anti-rightist” struggle and was the vice mayor of Shanghai, felt the urgency of joining the CPC, and applied for membership for the second time. But Ke Qingshi, then secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee, said, “You’d better stay in the democratic parties and the industrial and commercial circles. If you join the Party, all capitalists, big and small, will join the Party, and then it will be difficult for me to sit in my position as secretary of the municipal party committee.”

In October 1962, when Rong Yiren was Vice Minister of the Ministry of Textile Industry, he once again mentioned to Zhou Enlai that Chen Yi had introduced him to the Party. Zhou Enlai’s reply was, “Chen Laozi is not a broken promise. My opinion, you are still free outside the Party, if you enter the Party, too much political activity will bury your expertise, which is a pity.”

At the beginning of the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, Rong Yiren’s family was also hit. Rong Yiren’s right index finger was broken by an iron pillar, his wife Yang Jianqing even fainted several times, and even their fourth daughter Zhiyuan, who was mentally impaired due to cerebritis, was not spared. Although Mr. and Mrs. Rong Yiren later saved their lives, Rong Yiren was still assigned to carry coal to the boiler room and fell ill with back pain, while his fundus hemorrhage was not treated in time, leading to blindness in his left eye. After losing the sight in his left eye, he was assigned to scrub toilets.

After the end of the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese Communist Party, eager to develop the economy, once again thought of the Rong family’s overseas connections, and Rong Yiren was once again promoted by the Chinese Communist Party. 1978, Rong became vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and in 1979, he became president of the China International Trust and Investment Corporation, which was directly under the State Council. With his business strategies and overseas connections, Rong Yiren made a great contribution to the economic development of the CCP and other countries.

In April 1985, at the age of 69, Rong Yiren applied to join the Party again and finally got what he wanted, with his introducer being Wan Li, then Vice Premier of the State Council, and Peng Chong, Vice Chairman of the National People’s Congress.

But what people did not expect was that Rong Yiren, who had easily joined the Party, applied for resignation from the Party three times. The first request was related to the June 4 Incident; the second was due to a disagreement with Jiang Zemin; and the third was in June 2000, when Rong Yiren, already retired, came forward on behalf of the major vase parties and asked the Central Politburo to open up the democratic parties to political participation, and Jiang Zemin told him to cool off. In a fit of rage, Rong Yiren stopped participating in party activities until Jiang stepped down in December 2002.

In October 2005, Rong Yiren died in Beijing. He left behind a last message entitled “I want to say a few words to the Party,” which reads: A party that has lost its faith, a party that is not bound by the law, a party that is detached from the people, a party that pursues monetary interests, is hopeless and betrays the People’s Republic.

This is true.