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[[File:yjy.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ye Jianying]]
'''Ye Jianying''' ('''叶剑英''') was one of the founders of the [[People's Liberation Army]] in [[China]]. He held many important offices in the [[Communist Party of China]] and government.

On [[April 28]], [[1897]], Ye was born in Meixuan County, [[Guangdong]]. As a child, he witnessed the [[revolution of 1911]] and became determined to serve the country. With his father, Ye went to Southeast Asia in 1916 but returned home one year later and became a cadet of the Army Officials School in [[Yunnan]]. After graduation, he threw himself into the democratic revolution and dedicated himself to following Dr. [[Sun Yat-sen]]. In [[1922]], Ye and his troops saved Dr. Sun from the military coup that Chen Chiung-ming masterminded.

When [[Chiang Kai-shek]] and [[Wang Ching-wei]] turned traitors of the revolution in [[1927]], Ye risked his life to inform [[He Long]] and [[Ye Ting]] that Wang had plotted to liquidate their troops, so they promptly led their troops to withdraw from Jiujiang and bound for Nanchang to launch the [[Nanchang Uprising]]. Subsequently, he also led the [[Guangzhou Uprising]].

During the [[Long March]] in [[1935]], Zhang Guotao attempted to split the Party and the Red Army and set up a separate central committee. Standing at the crucial moment, Ye resolutely supported the CPC Central Committee's policy of marching north, ultimately maintaining the revolutionary order and furthermore completing the unprecedented Long March.

In [[1976]], the [[Gang of Four]] attempted to seize power after Mao's death. Ye Jianying led the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to smash the counter-revolutionary cliques of the Gang of Four and put an end to the "[[Cultural Revolution]]."

Ye Jianying was a scholar-general, both a civil and military man, and a great strategist and statesman.

[[File:yjy2.jpg|thumb|300px|left|People line the streets to bid farewell to Ye Jianying as the hearse drives along Guangzhou Boulevard to the crematorium.]]
On [[CIIC:Selected anniversaries/October 22, 2009|October 22]], [[1986]], Ye Jianying died in [[Beijing]] at the age of 89.

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