Hu Yaobang, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
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Place of Birth: Liuyang, Hunan, China
About Hu Yaobang
- Hu Yaobang (20 November 1915 – 15 April 1989) was a high-ranking official of the People's Republic of China.
- He held the top office of the Communist Party of China from 1981 to 1987, first as Chairman from 1981 to 1982, then as General Secretary from 1982 to 1987.
- Hu joined the Chinese Communist Party in the 1930s, and rose to prominence as a comrade of Deng Xiaoping.
- During the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Hu was purged, recalled, and purged again by Mao Zedong. After Deng rose to power, following the death of Mao Zedong, Hu was promoted to a series of high political positions.
- Throughout the 1980s Hu pursued a series of economic and political reforms under the direction of Deng.
- Hu's political and economic reforms made him the enemy of several powerful Party elders, who opposed free market reforms and attempts to make China's government more transparent.
- When widespread student protests occurred across China in 1987, Hu's political opponents successfully blamed Hu for the disruptions, claiming that Hu's "laxness" and "bourgeois liberalization" had either led to, or worsened, the protests.
- Hu was forced to resign as Party general secretary in 1987, but was allowed to retain a seat in the Politburo. Hu's position as Party general secretary was taken by Zhao Ziyang, who continued many of Hu's economic and political reforms.
- A day after Hu's death, in 1989, a small-scale demonstration commemorated him and demanded that the government reassess his legacy.
- A week later, the day before Hu's funeral, some 100,000 students marched on Tiananmen Square, leading to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests which were a part of the Chinese Democracy Movement.
- Following the government's violent suppression of the 1989 protests, the Chinese government censored the details of Hu's life within mainland China, but it officially rehabilitated his image and lifted its censorship restrictions on the 90th anniversary of Hu's birth, in 2005.
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