Zhu Shaolian () (1887 – January 8, 1929) courtesy name Hanying () was a member of the

3rd Central Executive Committee of the Chinese Communist Party The 3rd Central Executive Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (Chinese: 中国共产党第三届中央执行委员会) was in session from 1923 to 1925, while China was a a republic. The 2nd Central Executive Committee of the Chinese Communis ...

. Born in Hengyang,

Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to ...

Province, Zhu joined the

Communist Youth League of China The Communist Youth League of China (CYLC), also known as the Young Communist League of China or simply the Communist Youth League (CYL), is a youth movement of the People's Republic of China for youth between the ages of 14 and 28, run by the ...

in 1921 and the

Chinese Communist Party The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victoriou ...

in February 1922. He was introduced into the party by Li Lisan at Anyuan. Originally a railway engineer, Zhu was the first worker to join the party's central committee. At the beginning of September 1927, he was made commanding officer of the 4th Regiment, 1st Division of the

Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army The Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army or Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, commonly known as the Chinese Red Army or simply the Red Army, are the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party. It was formed when Communist ...

in Hunan. He was captured by the

Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Tai ...

on January 4, 1929, and killed 4 days later.

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1887 births 1929 deaths Politicians from Hengyang Republic of China politicians from Hunan Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hunan Members of the 3rd Central Executive Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Executed people from Hunan Executed Republic of China people People executed by the Republic of China {{China-politician-stub