Jiang Zhujun was born into a peasant family in Dashanpu, Zigong, Shichuan Province on August 20, 1920. She went to high school affiliated to China Public School in 1939, where she met Dai Keyu, an underground member of the Communist Party of China and her sponsor for party membership. China Public School closed in 1940, so she went to China Vocational School to attend an accounting training class and acted as an underground communist party leader in and near her school. Tracked down by the Kuomingtang spy in 1944, she had to transfer to Chengdu, where she called herself Jiang Zhiwei. In the same year, she was admitted to Agricultural School, Sichuan University in Chengdu and majored in diseases and pests of plants when it was time that the student movements were surging. Meanwhile, she was required to conceal her true identity in Sichuan University and carry out the masses work secretly as an ordinary student by the East Sichuan Underground Party Organization. In addition, she was required not to recruit new members of CPC, but to cooperate with her university communist party organization to expand the revolutionary forces. Acting on the party’s requirements, she grew into a hard-working straight A student and one of the undercover planners in the student movement as well.
As an ordinary member in college, Jiang Zhujun joined progressive Nvsheng Society and Literature Association, and also became a member of Democratic Association, a peripheral organization led by the Communist Party of China, but she did not take on any leadership role. She tried not to stand out in the student movement, but to pay very close attention to the whole process of the movement. Whenever the problem arose, she would consult with her schoolmates and put forward her solution so that the revolutionary team became stronger than never.
In the summer vacation of 1946, she was assigned to leave Sichuan University for Chongqing by the communist party in order to cooperate with her husband. As his assitant, she helped her husband Peng Yongwu to start the anti-civil war, anti-hunger, anti-persecution students movement , assisting him in leading the students to support the teachers and students who had fallen victim to Nanjing May 20 Murder. Meanwhile, she fetched contributions and arranged for the articles to be published for the underground Tinjin Newspaper under the leadership of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China.
The couple Jiang Zhujun and Peng Yongwu went to East Sichuan to organize the armed uprising to contain the Kuomingtang forces and open up a second battlefield in the autumn of 1947. At the beginning, the uprising was successful, but later on the revolutionaries were besieged and attacked by the enemy. Peng Yongwu sacrificed his life when he led his army to break through the siege. Jiang Zhujun was overwhelmed with grief at the news of her husband’s death, but she still decided to stay in East Sichuan to go on fighting against the enemy.
Jiang Zhujun was sold out by a traitor and was arrested in Wanxian. She was imprisoned and tortured in Zhazidong Prison, but she kept all her knowledge secret. The day before the rout of the Kuomintang, the revolutionaries were slaughtered by the Kuomintang and Jiang Zhujun and other 30 revolutionaries were no exception. Jiang Zhujun died on an execution place at the foot of Gele Mountain in Chongqing on November 14，1940 at the age of 28. It is a place that has witnessed the Chinese revolutionaries devoting themselves to their revolutionary cause.
