BIOGRAPHIES of the two new Members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the C.P.C.C.C. and the Members of the Secretariat, elected at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 11th Party Central Committee, follow:

Hu Yaobang

Born in a poor peasant family in 1915 in Liuyang County, Hunan Province, he joined the Communist Youth League in 1930 and was admitted into the Communist Party in 1933. At the age of 14, he left his home village 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 Long March which began in 1934 and served for a time as secretary of the general Youth League 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 (1937-45). During the War of Liberation (1946-49), 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 as 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.

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

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

Zhao Ziyang

Born in 1919 in Huaxian County, Henan Province, he joined the Communist Youth League in 1932 and the Communist Party in 1938. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he served as a county Party secretary and a prefectural Party secretary in the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Anti-Japanese Base Area. During the War of Liberation he was made deputy secretary of the Tongbai area Party committee.

In 1951, after liberation, he went to Guangdong Province to lead the land reform there.

Later, he served as Deputy Secretary of the South China Sub-Bureau of the Party Central Committee, Secretary and First Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, and Secretary of the Inner Mongolian Regional Party Committee in 1971. Later, he returned to Guangdong Province to become Secretary and then First Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee. Since 1975, he has been First Secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee, First Political Commissar of the Chengdu Units of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and Vice-Chairman of the Fifth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

He was elected a Member of the Tenth Party Central Committee and a Member of the 11th Central Committee and an Alternate Member of its Political Bureau. He was elected an additional Member to the Political Bureau at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 11th Party Central Committee.

Wan Li

Born in 1916 in Dongping County, Shandong Province, he joined the Communist Party in 1936. He worked as secretary of a county Party committee, secretary of a prefectural Party committee and secretary-general of the Party committee of Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Area. During the war against Japanese aggression, he organized guerrilla warfare and defended base areas behind the enemy lines. During the War of Liberation, he organized the masses for active support for the front.

After nationwide liberation, he served as deputy director of the financial commission, head of the Economic Department and director of the Construction Bureau of the Nanjing City Military Control Commission, and deputy head and head of the Industrial Department of the Southwest China Military and Administrative Commission. He became Vice-Minister of Building Construction in 1953, and Minister of Urban Construction in 1955. In 1958, he served as Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, Deputy Mayor of Beijing and Vice-Chairman of the Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Under the direct leadership of Premier Zhou Enlai, he took part in organizing and leading the construction of the Great Hall of the People and nine other major buildings and urban construction in general in the capital.

He was Minister of Railways in 1975 and guided the efforts to break the railway traffic tie-up at the time. He became First Vice-Minister of Light Industry in 1976. In 1977, he was made First Secretary of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee. He was elected Member of the C.P.C. 11th Central Committee.

Wang Renzhong

Born in 1917 in Jingxian County, Hebei Province, he joined the Communist Party in 1933. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he persevered in guerrilla operations on the plains in southern Hebei Province. During the War of Liberation, he served as secretary of a prefectural Party committee, deputy director of a prefectural administrative office and deputy secretary of a regional Party committee.

After nationwide liberation, he served as first secretary of the Wuhan city Party committee, First Secretary of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee and First Secretary of the Central-South China Bureau of the Party Central Committee.

In the summer of 1954, as commander of the flood prevention headquarters in Wuhan city, he led the masses in controlling an extraordinary Changjiang (Yangtze) River flood. He took part in 1958 in the research on the multiple-purpose water control project for the Changjiang gorges.

Starting in 1978, he has served successively as Second Secretary and then First Secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, Vice-Premier of the State Council and, concurrently, Minister in Charge of the State Agricultural Commission.

He was elected an Alternate Member of the Eighth Party Central Committee and a Member of the 11th Party Central Committee.

Fang Yi

Born in 1916 in Xiamen (Amoy) of Fujian Province, he joined the Communist Youth League in 1930 and the Communist Party in 1931. He served as head of the propaganda department and secretary of the municipal committee of the Youth League in Xiamen and took part in guerrilla war in southern Fujian Province.

During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he was head of the mass work department of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee, secretary of the special Party committee in eastern Hubei Province, secretary of the Party committee in eastern Anhui Province, and director of the political department of the fifth detachment of the New Fourth Army. He took part in and led the struggle to create and establish the east Hubei and Huainan anti-Japanese base areas.

During the War of Liberation, he served as Vice-Chairman of the Jiangsu-Anhui Border Area Government and of the Shandong Provincial People's Government.

After nationwide liberation, he served as Vice-Chairman of the Fujian Provincial People's Government, Deputy Secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, Deputy Mayor of Shanghai, Vice-Minister of Finance, Vice-Minister in Charge of the State Planning Commission, Minister of Economic Relations With Foreign Countries, Vice-Premier of the State Council, Minister in Charge of the State Scientific and Technological Commission, and President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

He was elected an Alternate Member of the Eighth and Ninth Central Committees of the Communist Party of China, a Member of the Tenth Central Committee and a Member of the 11th Central Committee and of its Political Bureau.

Gu Mu

Born in 1914 in Rong-cheng County, Shandong Province, he joined the Communist Youth League in 1931 and the Communist Party in 1932. He took part in activities of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Beiping and served as secretary of its Beiping branch.

After the War of Resistance Against Japan broke out, he joined in leading armed struggle and the building of base areas in the Binhai area of Shandong Province and the central-south area of Shandong Province. He served as secretary of the Binhai area Party committee, political commissar of the Binhai military sub-area, deputy secretary of the central-south Shandong area Party committee and deputy political commissar of the military area.

After liberation he served successively as secretary of the Jinan city Party committee, mayor of Jinan, political commissar of the Jinan garrison, Deputy Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, Minister in Charge of the State Capital Construction Commission and Vice-Premier of the State Council.

He was elected a Member of the Tenth C.P.C. Central Committee and a Member of the 11th Central Committee.

Song Renqiong

Born in 1909 in Liuyang County, Hunan Province, he joined the Communist Youth League in 1926 and became a Communist Party member the same year. During the First Revolutionary Civil War (1924-27), he took part in the peasant movement. In 1927, he participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising. In 1934, he was the political commissar of the cadre regiment during the Long March. After reaching northern Shaanxi Province, he was appointed political commissar of the 28th Army of the Red Army.

After the Xian Incident in 1936, he served as deputy director and then director of the political department of the 129th Division. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he fought in southeastern Shanxi and on the southern Hebei plain, where he successively served as political commissar and commander of the southern Hebei military area, director of the southern Hebei administrative office, commander of the Pingyuan military area, and acting secretary of the Pingyuan sub-bureau of the Party Central Committee.