Hui Wen, a native of Sichuan, graduated from Renmin University of China and was assigned to work at the Institute of Modern and Contemporary History of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In the second half of 1960, Hui Wen, as a Communist Party cadre, went to Jianyang County, Sichuan Province as part of a working group on rural commune remediation, during which he witnessed the situation of peasants amidst the Great Famine. At the end of 1962, Hui Wen was reassigned to work at the Chongqing Party school. After his retirement, Hui Wen compiled a book on what he witnessed during his time in Jianyang, titled *Chronicle of Rural Remediation of Communes in Difficult Times*.
