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Yang Yin'sBiography
Yang Yin, also known as Guan'en, Dianle orMingkui, was born in Cuiheng Village on August 12, 1892. In his early years, he took part in the revolutionary movements led by Sun Yat-sen. In the autumn of 1922, he joined the Communist Party of China and actively devoted himself to workers' movement. From 1925 to 1926, he participated in launching and leading theCanton–Hong Kong Strike in the capacity of member of the CPC Committee of Guangdong Province, which shocked both China and foreign countries. In May 1927, he served concurrently as Chairman of the Guangdong Counter-revolutionary Elimination Committee. In October, he led the Military Committee and the Counter-revolutionary Elimination Committee of the South China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and was a member of the provincial CPC committee. In December 1927, he initiated and led the Guangzhou Uprising of national influence, and served as Acting Chairman of the Guangzhou Soviet People's Counter-revolutionary Elimination Committee and that of the Soviet People's Committee during the Guangzhou Soviet Government period.. In June 1928, Yang went to Moscow to attend the sixth CPC national congress, and was elected as a member of the CPC Central Committee, a candidate member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and its standing committee, and Head of the Central Military Department. In November of the same year, he served as an executive member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.
On August 24, 1929, he was arrested together with his companions Peng Pai, Yan Changyi, Xing Shizhen and Zhang Jichundue to a traitorby the municipal council of the Japanese imperialist colluded with the Chinese Nationalist Party, but they remained unyielding despite of intimidation and inducement. On August 30, Peng Pai, Yan Changyi, Xing Shizhen and he were killed secretly by the reactionaries of the Chinese Nationalist Party in Longhua, Shanghai, when he was 37 years old. Before the execution, Yang told his companions calmly, "I have no pity because I know the truth!" This showed a communist fighter's boldness and heroism. After the death of Yang Yin and Peng Pai,the Communist Party of China published a special commemorative articleon the Party magazine Red Flag and established Peng Yang Military Commemorative School in the revolutionary bases in west Fujian, Danan Mountain in Guangdong and Yangxin County of Hubei to commemorate the two superstars of workers and farmers of the Chinese revolutionary movement -Matyrs Yang Yin and Peng Pai.
