The 10-year catastrophe of the "Cultural Revolution" created a large number of unjust, false and wrongly decided cases in Guangdong, and the successive political movements before this have also formed many unjust, false and wrongly decided cases and problems left over from history. Therefore, it is a very urgent and important task to solve these problems in a step-by-step manner. Before Xi Zhongxun came to Guangdong, the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee had already begun this work in accordance with the instructions of the central government. However, due to the limitations of historical conditions and especially the influence of the "two whatevers" thinking, the party's guiding ideology and the efforts to put things in order on all fronts are still in their infancy, and Guangdong Province has not taken much step in redressing unjust, false and wrongly decided cases.

After Xi Zhongxun took office in Guangdong, he publicly stated in his "inaugural speech": "We must resolutely implement the party's cadre policy, intellectuals policy, united front policy, overseas Chinese affairs policy, and ethnic policy." The vast number of aggrieved people also have high hopes for Xi Zhongxun, believing that he himself is a victim of "leftist" mistakes and can understand and understand the situation and suffering of the victims. As a result, letters of appeal were sent to the provincial party committee, and one appalling case after another was raised. During this period, redressing unjust, false and wrongly decided cases became one of the key points of the work of the provincial party committee.

Xi Zhongxun first organized the members of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee, the United Front Work Department of the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial People's Court and other relevant departments to conscientiously study a series of documents of the Central Committee on the implementation of the policy, and to carry out work in accordance with the requirements of Hu Yaobang, director of the Organization Department of the Central Committee, for the implementation of the cadre policy. Second, he gave a detailed and in-depth understanding of the situation in the United Front Work Department, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, religion, and overseas Chinese affairs, and gave targeted guidance. At the same time, rely on the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection to conduct case reviews, resolve them one by one, and increase the intensity of efforts to correct unjust, false and wrongly decided cases.

Xi Zhongxun was not satisfied with reading the letters sent by the Provincial Party Committee's Letters and Visits Office. He instructed his secretary Jia Yanyan to frequently go to the Letters and Visits Office to check the people's letters, listen to the visitors' complaints in the reception room, and go out to copy big-character posters calling for rehabilitation. Jia Yanyan recalled: "1978 was the second year after the end of the 'Cultural Revolution,' and the strongest demand of the people in society was to redress unjust, false and wrongly decided cases. According to Secretary Xi's clear requirements, during that period, the provincial party committee department I went to the most was the Letters and Visits Office, and the most work I went out to was copying big-character posters. ”

At that time, both sides of Zhongshan No. 3 and No. 4 Roads and the entire Beijing Road in Guangzhou were plastered with big-character posters demanding that unjust, false and wrongly decided cases be redressed. One day, at the intersection of Beijing Road, Jia Yanyan, who was about to copy a big-character poster, was attracted by a group of people who had just posted a big-character poster dressed in linen and filial piety. The big-character poster is about a bloody case that involves human life. After Jia Yanyan saw it, out of sympathy and righteous indignation, he couldn't help but quietly give these people ideas, asking them to go to the Provincial Party Committee's Petition Reception Room to appeal directly, and point out the route to the Provincial Party Committee. His approach was criticized by his colleagues, saying that he was emotional, and how could the secretary of the leader ask the people to make trouble at the provincial party committee! After listening to Jia Yanyan's report, Xi Zhongxun said solemnly: "You have done nothing wrong, how can the ** organs, the ** cadres be afraid of the people, and they are still the best cadres if they have no feelings for the people?" Such an official is not a good official in a feudal society! ”

On 29 May, Xi Zhongxun systematically listened to a report by the United Front Work Department of the Provincial Party Committee on the province's united front work, and instructed them to conscientiously implement the party's united front policies. On 18 June, Xi Zhongxun and relevant responsible persons of the provincial party committee specially listened to reports on the Haifeng issue and the underground party issue on the South Road (i.e., Zhanjiang, Maoming and other places). These two unjust, false and wrongly decided cases were typical cases created by the minions of the "Gang of Four" during the "Cultural Revolution" in Guangdong.

SITC is the hometown of Peng Pai, a famous revolutionary in China's early days. In the twenties of the twentieth century, Peng Pai carried out the peasant movement in the Hailufeng area, and was the pioneer of the Chinese peasant movement, and was known as the "king of peasant movement". During the "Cultural Revolution", in order to oppose Zhou Enlai and Ye Jianying, the anti-party clique of Lin Biao and Jiang Qing opposed Peng Pai in Haifeng, framed Peng Pai as a "traitor", brutally persecuted Peng Pai's mother and her relatives, and wantonly slandered the Hailufeng peasant movement, and those cadres and masses who defended the heroic name of revolutionary martyrs were also attacked and persecuted. At the same time, in Zhanjiang and other places, the "traitor network" was vigorously launched, and the Guangdong South Road Party organization, which was subordinate to the leadership of the Southern Bureau of the Central Committee with Zhou Enlai as its secretary, was branded as a "traitor party" during the Anti-Japanese War. Xi Zhongxun attaches great importance to these two cases. Soon after, during his in-depth investigation and study in Shantou, he gained a deeper understanding of the situation of the two unjust cases on the spot and urged the departments concerned to speed up the correction of mistakes and rehabilitation.

On 30 June, Xi Zhongxun also arranged for Li Jianzhen, secretary of the provincial party committee and secretary of the provincial party committee's discipline inspection commission, to make a special speech at the first enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee of the Fourth Provincial Party Committee on the implementation of cadre policies. In his speech, Li Jianzhen stressed: It is necessary to uphold the principle of seeking truth from facts, strictly distinguish and correctly handle two types of contradictions of different natures, resolutely rehabilitate unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, resolutely correct everything that should be corrected, and correct as many mistakes as possible. After the meeting, in accordance with Xi Zhongxun's instructions, the provincial party committee approved Li Jianzhen's speech and asked all parts of the province to conscientiously implement it.

On 11 July, Xi Zhongxun once again presided over a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee to listen to a report on the work of the united front and give instructions on the implementation of policies. He said that these people of the national bourgeoisie were the hardest hit by the "Cultural Revolution," and comrades who were engaged in united front work should know this situation: their confiscated property and occupied private houses must be done in accordance with the party's policy, and those who should be compensated must be returned. We must resolutely act in accordance with the spirit of the central document and take off all rightist hats as wrongly classified. In the work of ethnic minorities, it is necessary to conscientiously resolve the issue of disputes over land in the mountains and forests between the state-run agricultural and forestry farms in Hainan, Shaoguan, and other places and the social units of minority nationalities. He demanded that the funds allocated by the state for minority nationality areas be earmarked, saying that in this way "a lot of things can be done, and the construction of minority nationality areas can be carried out in a few years." Xi Zhongxun attaches great importance to the work of the CPPCC and proposes that the United Front Department should do a good job of connecting the masses and people in all walks of life through the CPPCC organization. He demanded that some representative old people and veteran cadres should be assigned to work in the CPPCC, and that they should not keep talking about their shortcomings but should look more at their achievements. With regard to old intellectuals outside the party, stop mentioning that they are "from the old society" and directly call them "senior intellectuals who are old outside the party." He urged the united front department to find out the distribution of members of the democratic parties and carry out their work in a targeted manner. He also instructed to do a good job in religious work, to act in accordance with the Constitution, and to have the freedom to believe in religion and the freedom to propagate scientific principles and atheism. With regard to the work of overseas Chinese affairs, he demanded that the United Front Work Department should also take charge of the implementation of the policy on overseas Chinese affairs. He also called on the responsible persons of the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Planning Commission, the Provincial Public Security Bureau, the Provincial Finance Bureau, the Provincial Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, and the United Front Work Department of the Guangzhou Municipal CPC Committee attending the meeting as observers to conscientiously implement the spirit of the meeting and assist in the implementation of various policies on united front work.

Xi Zhongxun paid attention to the rehabilitation of some high-impact cases. Under his supervision, Zhuang Xinxin's unjust case was rehabilitated and was praised by the people. In early April 1976, when the "Tiananmen Square Incident" occurred in Beijing, the people of Guangzhou mourned Zhou Enlai in various ways, supported Deng Xiaoping, and opposed the "Gang of Four." One of the prominent ones was Zhuang Xinxin, a young worker at the Guangzhou Semiconductor Materials Factory. On April 7, he openly wrote to the "People's Daily" and "Red Flag" magazines: "Support Deng Xiaoping! Down with Zhang * Chunqiao! Support Deng * Xiaoping! Down with Yao * Wenyuan! Support Deng * Xiaoping! Down with Jiang *Qing! "Dear Premier Zhou, you will always live in the hearts of our revolutionaries!" "We want real Marxism-Leninism! Let's not castrate Marxism! Zhuang Xinxin was arrested and criticized, and sentenced to prison for "counter-revolutionary crimes." On 14 July 1978, the Standing Committee of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee held an enlarged meeting to study the case of Zhuang Xinxin and decided to completely rehabilitate him. Xi Zhongxun attended the meeting and said: "During the 'Cultural Revolution', Zhuang Xinxin was still a child, and he cared about national affairs so much, can we compare with him? I'm not as good as him. It is not easy for such a person to take such a firm stand and take a clear-cut stand in the fierce class struggle and line struggle, and it is very worthy of our study. On the same day, the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee held a meeting attended by 5,000 people at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, and Li Jianzhen, secretary of the provincial party committee, was appointed by Xi Zhongxun to attend the meeting, announcing that Zhuang Xinxin was completely rehabilitated and his reputation was restored. Guangdong Province has publicly rehabilitated Zhuang Xinxin's case, which is the first case of the kind in the whole country to be handled.

At the end of 1978, the Central Committee convened a work conference and the Third Plenary Session of the 11 th CPC Central Committee to rehabilitate the unjust cases of Peng Dehuai, Tao Zhu, Yang Shangkun, and others, the unjust cases of the 61-member traitor clique including Bo Yibo, and the major unjust cases of the "February Countercurrent" and the Tiananmen Square incident.

In January 1979, the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee held the Second Enlarged Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Fourth CPC Central Committee to implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee. At the meeting, while making arrangements for various tasks in the province, Xi Zhongxun focused on the issue of reversing unjust, false and wrongly decided cases. He unequivocally denied the "22 January" seizure of power in Guangdong during the "Cultural Revolution" and the "Counter Right-leaning Trend of Overturning Cases" movement, and announced that the people and events that had been persecuted and involved because of these problems would be completely rehabilitated. On behalf of the provincial party committee, he also expressed his attitude toward the important cases and problems left over from Guangdong's history.

Xi Zhongxun said that during the "Cultural Revolution", Huang Yongsheng and others adhered to the will of Jiang and Qing and his gang and set up a special agency in Guangdong to "try the underground party in Guangdong" and crack down on the "Southern Traitor Network", with the purpose of opposing and negating Zhou Enlai. He solemnly declared that the comrades who were persecuted because of these cases should be rehabilitated; During the Anti-Japanese War, the Guangdong Party organization engaged in revolutionary struggle under the leadership of the Southern Bureau with Zhou Enlai as secretary, and was an important part of our Party. The people's armed forces active in various parts of Guangdong before the liberation of the whole country were all revolutionary armed forces under the leadership of the party and played an important role in the revolutionary struggle. Now that this unjust case has been redressed, the history of the party that has been turned upside down must be restored, and Hong Guiwen, who frantically took class revenge and brutally murdered Peng Ke, the nephew of the martyr Peng Pai, and several other murderers who were extremely angry with the people, will be handed over to the dictatorship organs for severe punishment according to law.

Xi Zhongxun also once again emphasized the policy of dealing with the problems left over from the anti-rightist struggle and the "Four Cleanups" movement. He said: With regard to the problems existing in the struggle against the rightists in 1957, the central authorities have issued a document clearly pointing out that all mistakes must be corrected. Guangdong Province should, in accordance with the spirit of the central authorities' instructions, correct as many mistakes as they may be, and correct all those who are wrong, leaving no tail. It is also necessary to correct the punishment of some comrades who were too heavy or wrong in the "four clean-up" movement in the spirit of seeking truth from facts. All the class elements that were added in the "Four * Cleanup" movement do not count, and should be based on the class elements defined during the land reform.

Xi Zhongxun also made special demands on the handling of Guangdong's so-called "black six" issue in overseas relations. He said: As soon as the "Cultural Revolution" began, Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao slandered the past that "the policies on overseas Chinese affairs were all reactionary" and persecuted returned overseas Chinese and their relatives. In 1970, the Provincial Revolutionary Committee issued the "Six Opinions on Handling Cadres with Overseas Relations with Hong Kong, Macao, and Macao," which were implemented throughout the province after being piloted in Shunde, Taishan, and other places. The "Black Six" made people panic. Relatives of overseas Chinese relatives, returned overseas Chinese, Hong Kong and Macao compatriots, and cadres with overseas ties have been labelled as "connecting with foreign countries" in their normal correspondence with their relatives overseas, and remittances from overseas relatives to support their families are described as "spy funds." "Overseas relations" have become a trumped-up charge, and a number of cadres with overseas connections, their relatives, and returned overseas Chinese have been treated as "spies" and have been attacked and persecuted, creating a number of appalling political false cases, which have had an extremely bad impact at home and abroad. He stressed: Guangdong is a well-known hometown of overseas Chinese, and the vast majority of overseas Chinese and their relatives are working people. Overseas Chinese have a glorious tradition of patriotism, and the "Black Six Articles" are reactionary and should be thoroughly criticized, and all those who are persecuted because of the "Black Six Articles" must be rehabilitated.

At the same time, Xi Zhongxun also put forward a request to solve the problem of rural grassroots cadres being unfairly treated in the "Cultural Revolution". He said: Due to the guidance of ultra-left ideology, some cadres have been wrongly handled, and in the handling of some problems, the scope of the attack has been too broad and the punishment has been too severe, which has hurt some comrades. For these problems, the rehabilitation should be rehabilitated, and the correction should be corrected. The party committees of all localities, cities, and counties shall handle some major cases in accordance with the situation and in a realistic manner. It is also necessary to resolve the problems left over from the movement of cleaning up the ranks of the class, "striking three antis" and "retreating and inserting one."