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  China Plans To Honor A Reformer
Hu Jintao has approved plans for a series of events honoring the late party chief Hu Yaobang on the 90th anniversary of his birth on Nov. 20, the sources said.
Hu Dezi, one of Hu Yaobang's nephews in Hunan province, said local authorities received permission recently to build a memorial park that would include a statue, a spacious public square and an exhibition hall.
Hu Yaobang served as party chief from 1981 to 1987, and is remembered by many Chinese for overturning cases against millions persecuted during Mao Zedong's political movements and launching the economic and political reforms that ended the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090802120.html   (1051 words)

  
  CalendarHome.com - Hu Yaobang - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hu Yaobang joined the communist revolution in his early age as a young teenager and as a supporter of Mao Zedong, he was persecuted many times by the communist cadres of the faction returning from former-Soviet Union, who controlled the communist leadership and had the real power.
Hu Yaobang, along with the future defense minister of the PRC, and the future colonel general of PLA, Qin Jiwei, became two of the thousands prisoner-of-war captured by Ma clique's forces.
Hu was also made General Secretary of the Communist Party of China in 1980 but, until the mid-1990s, it was Deng who was calling the shots although his only official title was that of chairman of the Communist Party's Central Military Commission.
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  Hu Yaobang   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hu Yaobang (Chinese : 胡耀邦 Pinyin : Hú Yàobāng, Wade-Giles : Hu Yao-pang; November 20, 1915 – April 15, 1989) was a leader of the People's Republic of China.
Hu was also made General Secretary of the Communist Party of China in 1980 but, until the mid-1990s, it was Deng who was the most influential Chinese leader although his sole official title was that of chairman of the Communist Party's Central Military Commission.
Although Hu was a dedicated reformer and one of Deng Xiaoping 's most important associates, he was later forced to resign in 1987 from his post as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China ; leaving officially on January 16.
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 Hu Yaobang Summary
Hu organized the rehabilitation of intellectuals disgraced during the Cultural Revolution and presided over a radical liberalization of the party structure between 1982 and 1986.
Hu was also made General Secretary of the Communist Party of China in 1980 but, until the mid-1990s, it was Deng who was the most influential Chinese leader although his sole official title was that of chairman of the Communist Party's Central Military Commission.
Hu's ideas of freedom of speech and freedom of press in 1986 greatly influenced the students participating in the protests.
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 Hu Yaobang
Hu, born into a peasant family in Hunan province, was a political commissar during the 1934–35 Long March.
Hu was purged as a ‘capitalist roader’ during the 1966–69 Cultural Revolution and sent into the countryside for ‘re-education’.
In December 1978, with Deng established in power, Hu was inducted into the CCP Politburo and became head of the revived secretariat in 1980 and CCP chair in 1981.
www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0018945.html   (328 words)

  
 Born Uner the Red Flag - Segment 2
Hu Yaobang was in touch with the people and the youth which began to question communism.
Hu was the political leader who initiated this movement and attempted to protect students from police and he was later ousted for weak leadership.
Hu Yaobang suffered a heart attach and died and the feelings of reform and demands for democracy were resurfaced.
www-agecon.ag.ohio-state.edu /class/AEDE439/born_under_red_flag_2.htm   (2386 words)

  
 Tian An Men Square, Hu Yaobang
Hu Yaobang was often viewed as the leader most inclined to reform after the death of Mao Zedong.
Hu was born in Hunan province in 1915.
In 1966, Hu was purged with Deng as a capitalist roadster.
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 Hu Jintao at AllExperts
Hu Jintao was born in Jiangyan, Jiangsu, in 1942.
Hu was responsible for a political crackdown in early 1989 that lead to the deaths of several Tibetan activists.
Hu and Wen Jiabao have also attempted to move China away from a policy of favouring economic growth at all costs and toward a more balanced view of growth that includes factors in social inequality and environmental damage, including the use of the green gross domestic product in personnel decisions.
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 Chinese leadership plans to honour ousted party "reformer"
Hu was the CCP general secretary from 1981 to 1987 and an advocate of limited political liberalisation.
Hu Yaobang was a protégé of the late “paramount” leader Deng Xiaoping and played a key role in bringing Deng to power after Mao Zedong’s death in 1976.
Hu’s successor as party secretary, Zhao Ziyang, attempted to end the growing demonstration in Tiananmen Square with proposals for limited political reforms aimed primarily at reducing the role of the state bureaucracy, encouraging private enterprise and enlisting the support of layers of the middle class.
www.wsws.org /articles/2005/sep2005/chin-s26.shtml   (1418 words)

  
 Hu Jintao Summary
Hu Jintao was born in Jiangyan, Jiangsu, in 1942.
Hu was responsible for a political crackdown in early 1989 that lead to the deaths of several Tibetan activists.
Hu and Wen Jiabao have also attempted to move China away from a policy of favouring economic growth at all costs and toward a more balanced view of growth that includes factors in social inequality and environmental damage, including the use of the green gross domestic product in personnel decisions.
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 China's communist leaders laud figure who stirred reformist zeal | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Hu Yaobang was dismissed as Communist Party general secretary in 1987 by then-supreme leader Deng Xiaoping for allowing student protests.
Hu Yaobang was liked by party liberals, and analysts say that by honoring him, President Hu might be trying to reach out to liberals and revive stalled political reforms.
Hu Yaobang's successor, Zhao Ziyang, was dismissed for sympathizing with the Tiananmen Square protesters and lived under house arrest for 16 years until his death in January.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20051119/news_1n19hu.html   (451 words)

  
 求关于GEORGE.W.BUSH和胡锦涛的英文介绍!_百度知道
Hu Jintao (Chinese: 胡锦涛; Pinyin: Hú Jǐntāo, born December 21, 1942) is the current President of the People's Republic of China and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China serving since 2003, succeeding Jiang Zemin in the fourth generation leadership of the People's Republic of China.
Hu Deping even invited Hu Jintao to his home and met with Hu Yaobang, who was a standing member of the politburo at that time.
Hu's harsh stance towards in Tibet led him to be reputed as a leader of conviction, and further attracted attention from the Central Government in Beijing.
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Jiang called on Hu Yaobang's widow at her Beijing home in the spring of 1999 and agreed to her request for a quiet ceremony in Gongqingcheng to mark the 10th anniversary of his death.
Hu, born in central Hunan province and the son of a peasant, was a liberal reformer, making him popular among Chinese intellectuals but also a factor in his downfall.
Hu was also attacked for allowing 3,000 Chinese students to travel to Japan as part of a student exchange programme, a move which led to the lifting of a ban on Chinese studying abroad.
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 Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, Taiwan and Hong Kong News and Business.
Hu was sacked in 1987 for apparently leaning towards "Western, bourgeois" principles of democracy, and for indirectly encouraging questioning of the communist system, as well as for pushing economic reforms beyond their intended limits.
Zheng served as Hu Yaobang's political adviser in the 1980s, and for nine years he was Hu Jintao's deputy when the latter headed the Central Party School, a decisive position in the process of promotions and training in the communist organization.
The memory of Hu Yaobang, and all that he meant and stood for, could be a reason for people to stick with the party, and ultimately trust that it will give China what it expects.
www.atimes.com /atimes/China/GK09Ad01.html   (2078 words)

  
 Hu Yaobang - Encyclopedia.com
Hu Yaobang (1915–89) Chinese statesman, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (1980–87).
Hu became associated with Deng Xiaoping in the war against Japan (1937–45), during which he served as a political commissar.
Hu was born on Nov. 20, 1915, to a poor
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 Glorious life of Hu Yaobang marked
A symposium was held on Friday to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the birth of Hu Yaobang, the late senior leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
In his revolutionary career of six decades, Hu "contributed all his life and built immortal merits for the liberation and happiness of the Chinese people, for the development and prosperity of Chinese socialism, for the implementation of the reform and opening-up policy as well as for the country's modernization drive," Zeng said.
Hu was born on November 20, 1915, to a poor peasant family in Central China's Hunan Province.
www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2005-11/19/content_496065.htm   (460 words)

  
 Issue 21 – Portrait – Who’s Hu?
Hu was reportedly a keen student and in 1959 he successfully completed the entrance exam for Qinghua University, China’s leading institute for the study of science and technology.
Hu is reported to have undergone two months of “reform through labour” but he does not appear to have endured the more serious forms of punishment meted out to more senior figures at the university.
Hu had accompanied him on some visits, however his sudden death on 28 January significantly raised the tension in the region on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the March 1959 armed rebellion against Beijing.
www.gbcc.org.uk /iss21_2.htm   (3150 words)

  
 People's Republic of China: IV
as an additional vice chairman and Hu Yaobang as a member) while positioning Hu Yaobang as secretary general of the CCP and head of the party's Propaganda Department.
Under the title of secretary general, Hu Yaobang took over day-to-day running of the party.
Hu went on, however, to praise the contributions of Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi, Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, and a score of other erstwhile enemies of the late chairman.
www-chaos.umd.edu /history/prc4.html   (1863 words)

  
 The Peking Duck: Rehabilitating Hu Yaobang
Despite strong opposition from party insiders, Hu Jintao is going to start rehabilitating the reputation of Hu Yaobang, the man whose death ignited the 1989 demonstrations that came to a head on June 4 when, as you'll learn in the Chinese media, absolutely nothing happened.
Hu is unlikely to lead to a broad political opening soon - the party leadership has, after all, steadily tightened its grip over civil society and the media - it does provide a glimpse of the complex politicking that takes place among the ruling elite.
Hu has rejected ideas for political change and pursued a sustained crackdown on the press, nongovernment organizations, the legal profession and religious groups he views as threatening the party's hold on power.
www.pekingduck.org /archives/003155.php   (876 words)

  
 FT.com / World / Asia-Pacific - Beijing to honour reform-minded Hu Yaobang
Today’s ceremony, backed by Hu Jintao, the president and party secretary (who is not related to Hu Yaobang), has caused divisions within the top leadership, prompting it to be scaled back from an initial plan for a larger, more ambitious event.
Hu Jintao’s sanctioning of a ceremony to mark Hu’s birth date initially sparked surprise, as the president has overseen a tightening of control of the media and intellectuals since coming to power two years ago.
Hu was party secretary for seven years until 1987, before he was deposed on charges he was too soft on a series of student demonstrations that broke out that year.
www.ft.com /cms/s/2dd788f6-57c5-11da-8866-00000e25118c.html   (764 words)

  
 China to Give Memorial Rite to Hu Yaobang, Purged Reformer
While restoring the stature of Hu Yaobang is unlikely to lead to a broad political opening soon - the party leadership has steadily tightened its grip over civil society and the news media, for example - it does give a glimpse of the complex politicking within the ruling elite.
President Hu is said to have overruled the objections and ordered the commemoration to proceed, arguing that while students may have invoked the late Mr.
Hu was born, and Jiangxi Province, the historical base of the Communist Youth League.
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 Who's Hu? Assessing China's Heir Apparent, Hu Jintao
Hu Yaobang was purged during the campaign against "bourgeois liberalism" in January 1987, and Zhao Ziyang left office in the political meltdown surrounding Tiananmen in 1989.
Hu was merely a provincial-party secretary, but nevertheless entered the inner sanctum of power as a "cross-century cadre." In other words, at the same time that Deng, by removing the Yangs, paved the way for Jiang taking effective power, he also paved the way for Hu Jintao to take over ten years later.
Hu Jintao has been a member of the Politiburo Standing Committee for ten years and a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission for five; Zeng Qinghong is a ministerial-level cadre (head of the Organization Department) and an alternate member of the Politburo.
www.heritage.org /Research/AsiaandthePacific/HL739.cfm   (11008 words)

  
 Chinese change tune
BEIJING -- Chinese President Hu Jintao has agreed to restore the standing of the reform-minded Communist leader whose death triggered the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, a surprising reversal of party dogma that could prompt new calls for democratic change in China, according to people informed of the decision.
Hu has approved plans for a series of events honoring the late party chief Hu Yaobang on the 90th anniversary of his birth on Nov. 20, the sources said.
But last month, the General Office of the party's Central Committee issued a document outlining plans to mark the anniversary of Hu's birth with ceremonies in Beijing as well as in Hunan province, where he was born, and Jiangxi province, where he is buried, according to two sources who have seen the document.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/05254/568751.stm   (685 words)

  
 Glorious life of Hu Yaobang marked 
In his revolutionary career of six decades, Hu "contributed all his life and built immortal merits for the liberation and happiness of the Chinese people, for the development and prosperity of Chinese socialism, for the implementation of the reform and opening-up policy as well as for the country's modernization drive," Zeng said.
At the landmark Third Plenum of the 11th CPC Central Committee in December 1978, Hu was elected a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.
In February, 1980, Hu was elected general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, a post he took again in September 1982.
en.ce.cn /National/Government/200511/19/t20051119_5258772.shtml   (495 words)

  
 China to mark Hu Yaobang's birthday - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
Hu was born on 20 November 1915, and would have been 90 this Sunday.
Hu, who was general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in the early 1980s, was a key figure as China implemented economic reforms and emerged from the repression of the Cultural Revolution.
Yaobang was a good man, and I'm glad the BBC is being true with the numbers.
www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=51816   (592 words)

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