page_title: Fu Zhong
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Fu Zhong / Biography / Early life
caption_attribution_description: 中文（简体）‎: 抗日战争初期，部分八路军将领合影。左一黄克诚、左二邓小平、左四傅钟。
context_page_description: Fu Zhong was a general in the People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China from Sichuan.
  Fu Zhong joined the Chinese Communist party in 1921, and graduated from the Moscow Sun Yat-sen University in 1930. He was appointed as the head of the political department in the Counter-Japanese Military and Political University and served in various positions in the Eighth Route Army as the political commissar. During the Chinese Civil War, he was the deputy head of the political department in the Central Military Commission. He was one of the earliest military leaders that joined the communist party.
context_section_description: Fu enrolled to Secondary School in 1919 and went to Shanghai in 1921 to study French. During this period, he was affected by the May Fourth Movement and by the winter of 1921, he joined the newly founded Communist Party of China. After returning from Russia in 1930, he assisted Zhou Enlai in Shanghai's personnel and military transport work and at the same time participated in the translation of the "Soviet Infantry Fighting Order" and "Soviet Political Work Regulations".
  During the Long March in 1935, Fu was responsible for communal distribution and conducting preparatory work for combat. In August, he was elected as an alternate member of the 6th Central Committee. Upon Zhang Guotao's attempt to set up an alternate communist base, Fu classified him as an "alternate member of the Politburo" but refused to work for his branch of the central committee. Following the rendezvous between the 4th Red and 2nd Red Armies in July 1937 he became the director for Central Committee Northwest Organization Department that was based in Shaanbei. He was then appointed as the head of the political department in the Counter-Japanese Military and Political University.
caption: A picture of Eighth Route Army leaders during the Sino-Japanese War. From left, Huang Kecheng, Deng Xiaoping, Fu Zhong
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