Chen Yun (1905-95), a native
of Qingpu (now part of Shanghai), is a great proletarian revolutionist,
politician, smart Marxist, one initiator and founder of Chinese
socialist economic construction, and excellent leader of Chinese
Communist Party and the People’s Republic of China.
In 1919, he began to contact and accepted the communist ideology.
In 1925, he became a member of Chinese Communist Party. After
the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, he served
as member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, Vice-Premier
of the Government Administration Council and concurrently the
head of the Central Financial and Economic Committee, and Vice-Premier
of the State Council. He made great contribution to unite the
national finance and economy, to stabilize financial price and
to rehabilitate the national economy. In 1987, he served as
Chairman of the Central Advisory Commission. On April 10th,
1995, he died in Beijing.
To commemorative the centenary of the birth of Chen Yun, and
cherish the contribution he has made to the national liberty
and the country’s prosperity, the People’s Bank of China is
to issue a set of coins, including a gold coin and a silver
coin, in June 2005. |
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