Deng was born on 15 November 1900 in
Libo County,
Guizhou,
Qing dynasty. At the age of sixteen, he left Guizhou for
Shandong. In 1918, he enrolled into the Shandong Jinan No.1 High School at
Jinan. After the
May Fourth Movement, he began to participate in student strikes, and became the editor of his high school's newspaper. In November 1920, along with
Wang Jinmei, he co-founded the Lixin Society, a communist organisation which heavily promoted the
October Revolution in Russia. In the spring of 1921, Deng participated in the creation of a communist organisation in
Jinan. In July, along with Wang Jinmei, he represented the province in the
1st National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party at
Shanghai. In January 1922, Deng went to
Moscow and was received by
Vladimir Lenin. He went to
Qingdao later that year to found the province's communist party division, and was appointed as party-secretary of the organisation. During the
Northern Expedition, Deng led a major strike by the workers of the
Qingdao–Jinan railway. In April 1927, he went to
Wuhan as a representative of the
5th National Congress. After returning to
Shandong, he was promoted as party secretary of CCP Shandong. Following the outbreak of the
Chinese Civil War, Deng led several communist insurrections across Shandong. He was arrested in Jinan in December 1928, and was one of the 23 people executed by forces under
Han Fuju on 5 April 1931. == References ==