Du Yiming, the backbone of Huangpu Phase I, is a rare westernized general in the Kuomintang army. After the Northern Expedition, the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, he was captured by the PLA in the Huaihai Campaign in 1949.
In December 1959, Du Yuming, as the first batch of war criminals to be amnesty, received a notice of amnesty from the Supreme People’s Court and was elected as a deputy to the National People’s Congress and a standing member of the CPPCC. His wife Cao Xiuqing led his mother-in-law and children to Taiwan after Du Yiming was captured. After careful arrangement by Premier Zhou Enlai, Cao Xiuqing returned home from New York in 1963 via Geneva and Moscow, and met his pardoned husband Du Yuming long time ago. Du died of kidney failure in Beijing in 1981 at the age of 77. His eldest daughter: Du Zhili, son-in-law Yang Zhenning.
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