Interview With Huang Bingrui

Born in 1929 on Kinmen Island, Taiwan, Huang Bingrui later followed his father to East Kalimantan, Indonesia, where his father ran a grocery store. Huang studied mainly in Chinese schools in Indonesia, and, during his studies, was gradually influenced by left-wing ideas. He eventually established a youth study club with his fellow Kinmen Huang clansmen. The club commemorated the Chinese National Day in 1951 and 1952. It was because of his left-wing ideology and his yearning for a new socialist China that he returned to China in 1953 to the anguish of his parents. Unexpectedly, he did not have the opportunity to return to his hometown of Kinmen, until the 1990s. 

After returning to China, Huang attended a crash course in an overseas Chinese school and then entered a junior college, and was assigned to Fuzhou after graduation. He began working at the Fuzhou Overseas Chinese Lacquer Factory, and later helped start the Overseas Chinese Plastics Factory in 1958, where he served in the general affairs section. During the Cultural Revolution, the scale of the Overseas Chinese Plastics Factory was not very large. However, the factory workforce was divided in their political allegiances. Although clashes between opposing factions occurred in the factory from time to time, production was never halted.