Word: hua
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...Central Committee is of the opinion that he is a suitable choice and worthy of our trust." With those words, China's Communist Party Chairman Hua Guofeng last week formally announced to the National People's Congress that, as expected, he would step down from his top government post to make way for a new Premier, former Sichuan province Governor Zhao Ziyang. Hua also made it official that seven Vice Premiers, including the architect of the transition, Deng Xiaoping, would retire from their government posts; among their successors will be the Westward-leaning Foreign Affairs Minister, Huang Hua...
This week China's Senior Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping was expected to step down from his government post, along with Premier Hua Guofeng, in favor of a new team of trusted, younger technocrats. But first Deng saw to it that the National People's Congress, whose 3,500 delegates have been meeting in Peking for the past ten days, approved a parcel of new measures. Among the miscellany: the debut of the personal income tax* and a raise in the legal marriage age (20 for women, 22 for men). The important changes, however, were a series of economic...
Some of the programs have already been tested successfully in Sichuan, the country's most populous province, under the governorship of Zhao Ziyang, 61, who is Deng's choice to replace Hua as Premier. In an interview with Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci, published in the Washington Post last week, Deng conceded that his program may well bring in "some decadent influences of capitalism, but I think that this is not so terrible." In any case, Deng added, "capitalism is superior to feudalism...
...most delicate part of the changeover was the removal of Hua, who is two years younger than the 62-year-old man who will replace him. Some analysts, in fact, think that some serious quarrels could yet break out between Hua and Deng's proteges. The Deng forces have lately taken to making oblique attacks against Hua in the press. Most of the old Maoist programs that are now being discredited, for example, were ardently supported by Hua, the last major leader who owes his power directly to the patronage of Mao. A recent Central Committee directive against excessive...
Over the past few months, Hua has been noticed meeting with military commanders, who are also suspected of being unhappy with Deng, in part because of the low priority being given to modernization of the military establishment. Thus while the Deng forces seemed supreme as the congress opened, they had yet to prove that they could avoid the sort of factionalism in the party that has bedeviled China's leaders so often in the past...