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Zhao Ziyang

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Zhao Ziyang or Chao Tzu-yang (both: zhou zēyäng), 1919–2005, Chinese Communist leader. Active as a local party leader during World War II, by the 1960s he was party secretary of Guangdong prov. Persecuted during the Cultural Revolution Cultural Revolution, 1966–76, mass mobilization of urban Chinese youth inaugurated by Mao Zedong in an attempt to prevent the development of a bureaucratized Soviet style of Communism.
..... Click the link for more information. , he held a variety of party posts after 1971, and was known for reviving agricultural and industrial production in Sichuan prov. A member of the Communist Party Central Committee from 1973, he became premier in 1980 and joined the Standing Committee of the Politburo in 1982. Named general secretary of the party in 1987, he persisted in advocating economic reforms and an open foreign policy. Li Peng Li Peng , 1928–, Chinese Communist leader, premier of China (1988–98), b. Chengdu, Sichuan prov., China. Orphaned at age three when his father was executed by the Kuomintang, Li became the adopted son of Zhou Enlai.
..... Click the link for more information.  succeeded Zhao as premier in 1987. Opposing a policy of repression, Zhao called for dialogue with the students demonstrating in Tiananmen Square Tiananmen Square, large public square in Beijing, China, on the southern edge of the Inner or Tatar City. The square, named for its Gate of Heavenly Peace (Tiananmen), contains the monument to the heroes of the revolution, the Great Hall of the People, the museum of
..... Click the link for more information. . Consequently, he was ousted from all posts on June 23, was placed under house arrest until Oct., 1989, and subsequently had his movements and visitors restricted until his death. Nonetheless, the economic reforms he promoted were ultimately adopted and led to sustained growth and development in China.
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He added that Li Jinping, who every year tries to organise commemorations of deposed former leader Zhao Ziyang, who opposed the use of force to quell the 1989 protests, had also been detained.
China dissidents 'detained ahead of Obama visit' by AFP / AFP Asian Edition
Yet as he traveled the booming coastal provinces, then-Premier and Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang, an architect of several key reforms, was troubled by mounting evidence of rampant corruption, which he considered a symptom of a structural flaw in China's model.
China: A Look Back at a Missed Opportunity by Pete Engardio / BusinessWeek
Zhao Ziyang, then general secretary of the Communist Party, who was dismissed and put under house arrest for the rest of his life, believed that to the day he died: "Most people were only asking us to correct our flaws, not attempting to overthrow our political system".
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