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Luo Longji (; July 30, 1898 – December 7, 1965) was a Chinese politician and famous intellectual. Luo has been called "China's number two rightist". He and Hu Shih collaborated to research and promote human rights in China, which made them one of the earliest prolific liberals in the People's Republic of China. Because he advocated for setting committees to rehabilitate the wronged people in previous Communist repressions, he was attacked by Wu Han during the Anti-Rightist Campaign and persecuted accordingly.
After the 1931 Mukden incident, Luo Longji advocated resistance against Japan. In January 1932, he accepted Liu Huoxuan's invitation and went to Tianjin to serve as the editorial editor of Yi Shi Bao. He was also invited by Zhang Boling, the president of Nankai University, to serve as a professor of the Department of Politics. Luo Longji continued to publish fierce editorials in Yi Shi Bao, such as "One country and three officials lead to a deadlock in politics", "It's time to fight", "On the policy toward Japan again", "Victory in suppressing the Communists is not glorious", "Resisting foreign aggression can bring peace to the country", etc., criticizing the government's policy toward Japan. In the autumn of 1933, Luo Longji's car was shot at near Haiguang Temple, and Luo Longji was almost assassinated. Shortly thereafter, Yi Shi Bao was forced to dismiss Luo Longji due to pressure. After Song Zheyuan, who advocated resistance against Japan, took control of the Beijing and Tianjin areas, Yi Shi Bao once again hired Luo Longji as the editorial editor until Tianjin was occupied by the Japanese army in August 1937, and Yi Shi Bao ceased publication.
After World War II, he moved to the rear. He was a member of the National Political Consultative Conference and one of the early leaders of the China Democratic League. After the Chinese victory in the war, he engaged in the democratic movement and had close contacts with Zhou Enlai, Dong Biwu and others. He once joined the National Socialist Party, but later withdrew with Zhang Dongsun.
In September 1949, he attended the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference as a representative of the CDL. Later, he served as vice chairman of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League, member of the State Council of the Central People's Government, Minister of the Ministry of Forestry and Industry, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. In 1954, he was elected as a representative of the 1st National People's Congress. In September, he attended the first session of the First National People's Congress to discuss the draft constitution and made a speech during the meeting.
On May 22, 1957, the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee held a symposium. Luo Longji spoke at the meeting and suggested that the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference set up a committee to examine the mistakes and deviations in the "Three Antis", "Five Antis" and "Anti-Counterrevolutionary" movements. The committee must be composed of the ruling party, democratic parties and non-party democrats. This is the famous "establishment of a redress committee" proposal, which was called the three major right-wing political theories by Mao Zedong, along with Zhang Bojun's "Political Design Institute" and Chu Anping's "Party World".
In June 1957, he was labeled a "rightist" and was criticized three times a week. In July 1957, his girlfriend Pu Xixiu, who had lived with him for ten years, publicly "exposed" and criticized Luo Longji at the request of the CCP. The most fierce criticism was titled "Luo Longji is a wolf in sheep's clothing", calling him a "wolf in sheep's clothing" and severing ties with him. On January 26, 1958, he was dismissed from his position as vice chairman of the Democratic League Central Committee. On the January 31, he was dismissed from his position as a representative of the National People's Congress and the position of Minister of Forest Industry. His salary was reduced from level 4 to level 9.
At midnight on December 7, 1965, he died of a heart attack at his home in Beijing.
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