He Maojin was born into a landlord family in Hekou Town in Wanxian county in February 1917. As a boy, he was an active learner and thinker. He began to read classic books under the guidance of his grandpa at 5 and he went to school at 8. The schools where he successively learned in were Tianyuansi, Wanxian County Middle School, Zhiyuan Middle School and Qiujing Middle School in Chongqing. During his middle school days, the country plunged into the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, so he joined the school organization of the Anti-Japanese Chorus, broadcasting the firm resistance to Japanese aggression. During summer and winter holidays, he went back to his hometown establishing Anti-Japanese National Salvation Promotion Group. He taught students to sing national salvation songs, rehearse street drama, draw cartoons and work on the blackboard newspaper. He also made use of the village fair in Kekou in Hekou, Rangdu, Liangfeng, Yanghexi etc. to go on a performing tour in order to expose the crimes committed by the Japanese aggressors with their performances. He collected clothes and raised fund for the soldiers in the war. He Maojin went to Jinling University in Chengdu in 1944, originally located in Nanjing and majored in agricultural economics with the desire to reform agriculture. He often discussed the rural problems in China with his professors and schoolmates in university. He also read literature about land reform and rectification in the liberated area and revolutionary books like Das KapitalandPublic Philosophysecretly. After Japan surrendered, Jinling University moved back to Nanjing. Mr. He transferred to Agricultural School, Sichuan University and majored in agricultural economy. At that time he was actively involved in progressive activities. He founded the Li Li Cao Association and acted as a main leader of the association. As its chief leader, he often organized his schoolmates in the association to read progressive books, discuss current affairs, work on the column and wall newspapers and publicize the ideas of the communist party. In the winter of 1946, he joined the Communist Party of China.
As one of the leaders of Sichuan University communist party organization during the Liberation War, he enjoyed high prestige in the party among his schoolmates with his enthusiasm for his work and easy-going personality. He made much contact with the masses. His frequent contact with the masses strengthened the revolutionary forces and laid a good foundation for the cultivation of the revolutionary talents of the Communist Party of China.
After he graduated from Sichuan University in July 1948, Mr. He was assigned to his hometown by Ma Shitu, deputy secretary of Chuankang Special Committee, and Mr. He decided to initiate the armed struggle in the countryside in the form of working groups. Later on, Mr. He set up East Sichuan Working Group and the Communist Party Branch, and the members from different working groups went back to their own hometowns to start peasant movements respectively which turned out to be fruitful. At the beginning of 1949, his new revolutionary chapter began, but unfortunately，on March 25, 1949, he was arrested in Hekou, Wanxian County for the betrayal of a student. The student was arrested in Danling County, could not stand the torture of the enemy, and sold out Mr He, who had recommended the student for Party membership. On November 27, 1949, Mr. He was killed in Zhazidong Prison and he was only 32 years old.
