Former consultant of the Academy of Military Sciences.
Comrade Yu Guangwen was a native of Pingjiang County, Hunan Province. He joined the Pingjiang County Farmers Association and the Farmers' Self-Defense Army in 1925, and joined the Communist Party of China in 1926. He participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising on the border between Hunan and Jiangxi, the anti-"encirclement and suppression" struggle in the revolutionary base areas of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou, as well as the world-famous 25,000-mile Long March. During the Anti-Japanese War, he served as the minister of the Anti-Corruption Department of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and was elected as a representative of the "Seventh National Congress" of the Communist Party of China. During the ten years of turmoil, Comrade Yu Guangwen was framed and persecuted by the counterrevolutionary groups of Lin Biao and Jiang Qing. In 1978, the party organization rehabilitated him and restored his reputation. In the same year, he was elected as a member of the Fifth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
During the war years, Comrade Yu Guangwen fought bravely and tenaciously, went through life and death, and was wounded many times. When he died, there were still bullets from the enemy on the inside of his carotid artery. Comrade Yu Guangwen has been engaged in anti-corruption and defense work for a long time since the Red Army period. During the sharp and complicated struggles, he made important contributions to the construction of our army's defense work and the purity and consolidation of the army.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he made significant achievements in the construction of the public security team, especially in the logistical support of the public security front. While presiding over the work of the Academic Affairs Department of the Academy of Military Sciences, he made due contributions to the construction of the Academy of Military Sciences and ensuring the completion of military scientific research tasks.
Comrade Yu Guangwen died in Beijing on December 2, 1985 due to illness, at the age of 84.