Deng Fa

He was born in Yuncheng District, Yunfu, Guangdong, and participated in the Canton–Hong Kong strike and the Guangzhou Uprising in his youth.

After 1931, he was active in the Jiangxi Soviet and worked as the Party Committee Secretary of Fujian, and head of the State Political Security Bureau.

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, he was an alternate Politburo member, but by the Zunyi Conference he had already lost influence and made many enemies due to his campaigns.

In March 1943 he was dismissed from this position and started serving as nominal secretary of the Mass Movement Work Committee.

[1]: 408–409  He died in a plane crash in 1946, along with other senior Communist leaders including Ye Ting, Bo Gu, and Wang Ruofei.