Fang Zhimin was a Chinese communist military and political leader.

Born in a poor peasant household in Yixian

Yixian

Yixian may refer to:*Yi County, Anhui, in China*Yi County, Hebei, in China*Yi County, Liaoning, in China*Yixian Formation, a geological formation in Liaoning Province*Empress Yixian, Liang Nüying , Chinese empress during the Han Dynasty...

, Jiangxi

Jiangxi

' is a southern province in the People's Republic of China. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze River in the north into hillier areas in the south, it shares a border with Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei to...

 Province, he joined the CPC

Communist Party of China

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 in 1924 and assisted in setting up a provincial Party organization. After the failure of the Shanghai Uprising in 1927, Fang returned to Jiangxi

Jiangxi

' is a southern province in the People's Republic of China. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze River in the north into hillier areas in the south, it shares a border with Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei to...

, where he worked in organizing the peasantry and urged them to take part in armed uprisings

Rebellion

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. From 1928 to 1933 Fang conducted guerrilla

Guerrilla warfare

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 operations, enacted land reforms, established a base area in the border area of Jiangxi

Jiangxi

' is a southern province in the People's Republic of China. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze River in the north into hillier areas in the south, it shares a border with Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei to...

 and Fujian

Fujian

' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...

 provinces, and organized a section of the Chinese Red Army. He was later elected a member of the Central Committee during the Sixth Session of the Fifth Party Congress. Fang was captured by the Kuomintang

Kuomintang

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in January 1935 and executed on August 6, 1935.