page_title: Zhu Rui
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Zhu Rui / Early life
caption_attribution_description: 中文（中国大陆）‎: 朱瑞指挥作战使用的怀表。一级文物。
context_page_description: Zhu Rui was born in Suqian, Jiangsu province. He was an artillery commander of the Chinese People's Liberation Army from October 1946 to October 1948.
context_section_description: When he studied at Xuzhou Peixin Middle School, he was expelled from academic status. After that, he went to study in Nanjing. In the summer of 1924, he joined the Socialist Youth League. In the same year, he was admitted into Guangdong University. In 1925, he passed an entrance examination of Zhongshan University in Moscow. After his graduation from Zhongshan University in 1927, he furthered his studies in artillery barracks in the Soviet Union. In 1928, he joined the Communist Party of Soviet Union, and then switched to Chinese Communist Party.
  In 1929, Zhu came back to China. He was once Chinese special correspondent, the chief of Red Army’s general headquarters, a teacher of Red Army’s schools, a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau so on.  At the end of the year 1932, he was appointed as Red Army Committee.  In August, 1934, he was appointed as political director of legion one. Then he joined the Red Army.
  After the Anti-Japanese War (1937-1945), Zhu led teachers and students of Yanan artillery school to the Northeast, collecting weapons abandoned by Japanese soldiers and developing artillery (troops) actively.  In 1946， he took on the position of Artillery Commander and the president of artillery school.
caption: A pocket watch Zhu Rui used.
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