１９９７年１０月１７日晚，中央组织部一位领导来电话告知，方毅同志下午３时０７分在北京医院去世，约我商谈撰写方毅生平事宜。噩耗传来，我木然地坐在电话机旁久久说不出话来。粉碎“四人帮”后，我曾长期在方毅身边工作，在他协助邓小平同志主管科学和教育工作的几年时间 On the night of October 17, 1997, a leader of the Central Organization Department called to tell that Comrade Fang Yi passed away at Beijing Hospital at 3.07 pm and asked me to negotiate for the compilation of her return to life. Bad news came, I am suddenly sitting in the telephone next to a long time speechless. After smashing the “Gang of Four,” I have been working with Fang Yi for a long time. In the few years he helped Comrade Deng Xiaoping to take charge of science and education