Bo Gu (1907-46), otherwise known as Qin Bangxian, was a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. From September 1931 to January 1935 he served as the principal leader in the provisional central leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. During this period he devoted all his efforts to pursuing Wang Ming's ``Left'' adventurist line. After the Zunyi Meeting he was dismissed from the top leadership of the Party and Red Army. In the early days of the War of REsistance AGainst japan he worked in the Changjiang Bureau and the Southern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. After 1941 he founded and then headed the Liberation Daily and the New China News Agency. At the Seventh National Congress of the CPC in 1945 he made a self-criticism of his previous errors and was again elected to the Central Committee. In April 1946 he died in a plane crash.