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UPDATED: April 18, 2011
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Hu Yaobang

Born in a poor peasant family in 1915 in Liu-yang County, Hunan Province, Hu Yaobang joined the Communist Youth League in 1930 and was admitted into the Communist Party in 1933. He left his home village at the age of 14 to join the revolution at the Red base area where he did work among children and later became Secretary-General of the Central Committee of the Young Communist League in the central Soviet base area.

He took part in the famous Long March in 1934 and served for a time as secretary of the Youth League general branch in a Red Army unit. He served as deputy director of the political department of the Chinese People's Anti-Japanese Military and Political College and head of the organization department of the General Political Department of the Military Commission during the War of Resistance Against Japan. During the War of Liberation, he served as political commissar of a column and director of the political department of an army group of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

During the early post-liberation period, he served as secretary of the north Sichuan regional Party committee and concurrently chairman of the regional administrative office. In 1952, he became Secretary of the Central Committee of the Youth League, and in 1965 First Secretary of the Shaanxi provincial Party committee.

Since the downfall of the gang of four, he has served successively as Head of the Organization and Propaganda Departments of the CPC Central Committee, Third Secretary of the Central Commission for Inspecting Discipline and Secretary-General of the CPC Central Committee.

He was elected Member of the Eighth and 11th Party Central Committees, Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee at the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee and General Secretary of the Party Central Committee at the Fifth Plenary Session.

Zhao Ziyang

Born in 1919 in Huaxian County, Henan Province, Zhao Ziyang joined the Communist Youth League in March 1932 and the Communist Party in February 1938.

During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he served as secretary of the working committee of the Chinese Communist Party in Huaxian County, secretary of the county Party committee, head of the organization and propaganda departments of the north Henan prefectural Party committee and secretary of the second and fourth prefectures' Party committees in the Hebei-Shandong-Henan base area.

During the War of Liberation, he was made secretary of the fourth prefecture's Party committee in the Hebei-Shandong-Henan base area, deputy secretary of the Tongbai area Party committee and secretary of the Nanyang prefectural Party committee.

After the founding of New China, he served as member, standing committee member and secretary-general of the South China Sub-Bureau of the Party Central Committee, head of its rural work department and deputy secretary of the sub-bureau. He later became member of the secretariat, Second Secretary and First Secretary of the Guangdong provincial Party committee; Secretary of the Party committee and Vice-Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region; Secretary and First Secretary of the Guangdong provincial Party committee, Chairman of the provincial revolutionary committee and Political Commissar of the Guangzhou Units of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Then he became First Secretary of the Sichuan provincial Party committee, Chairman of the provincial revolutionary committee and First Political Commissar of the PLA Chengdu Units. After that he was elected Vice-Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and appointed Vice-Premier and Premier of the State Council.

Zhao Ziyang was a Member of the 10th Party Central Committee and of the 11th Central Committee and an Alternate Member of its Political Bureau. He was elected a Member of the Political Bureau at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 11th Party Central Committee and a Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau at the Fifth Plenary Session of the Central Committee.

Xi Zhongxun

Born in Fuping County, Shaanxi Province, in 1913, Xi Zhongxun joined the Communist Youth League in 1926 and the Communist Party in 1928.

He engaged in the student movement after joining the revolution in 1926, and did Party work among soldiers in the Northwest Army from 1930 to 1932. He led the peasant movement and carried out guerrilla war in Shaanxi and Gansu from 1932 to 1936. As chairman of the Shaanxi-Gansu border area Soviet government, he directed the battles that smashed the first, second and third encirclement campaigns launched by enemy troops against the area. He served as secretary of the central Shaanxi prefectural Party committee and political commissar of the garrison of the central Shaanxi military sub-area from 1936 to 1943.

From 1943 to 1949, Xi Zhongxun served successively as political commissar of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border area army group, deputy head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, Secretary of the Northwest Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Political Commissar of the Northwest Field Army and Political Commissar of the Northwest China Military Area. Along with Comrades Peng Dehuai and He Long, he took part in directing the campaigns to defend Yanan and the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border area and to liberate northwest China.

After the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, he served as First Secretary of the Northwest Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Acting Chairman of the Northwest China Military and Administrative Commission and Chairman of the Northwest China Land Reform Committee, directing the land reform and democratic reform movements in the northwest region. After 1952, he served successively as Head of the Propaganda Department of the Party Central Committee, Secretary-General of the State Council and Vice-Premier.

After the downfall of the gang of four, he became Member of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, First Secretary of the Guangdong provincial Party committee, Chairman of the provincial revolutionary committee, Governor of Guangdong, First Political Commissar of the PLA Guangzhou Units and Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

Xi Zhongxun was an Alternate Member of the Seventh Party Central Committee and a Member of the Eighth Central Committees. He is now a Member of the 11th Party Central Committee.

(NO. 27 JULY 6, 1981)

 



 
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