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That struggle will evidently continue to be led by Mao's relatively youthful (56) designated heir, Hua Kuo-feng, who is both Premier and Party Chairman. At week's end reports out of Peking said that Hua had been re-elected Premier, while Party Vice Chairman Yeh Chien-ying, 79, would also be China's equivalent to chief of state. Earlier, there had been speculation that the third member of the ruling troika, Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, 73, the wily pragmatist who had been a leading victim of the Cultural Revolution, might get Hua...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Hundred Flowers, Part 2 | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

Still, much of the congress bore Teng's stamp. In his 3½-hr. address, Chairman Hua stressed a favorite Teng program: the "four modernizations" of agriculture, industry, defense, and science and technology. And a draft of a new national constitution for China introduced by Yeh hinted at wage increases and other incentives for workers, which Mao had opposed. Since coming to power, the troika has given some 20 million workers their first pay raises in almost two decades (though average urban salaries still remain in the $20-to $30-a-month range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Hundred Flowers, Part 2 | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...group, shooting photographs for TIME as they traveled, visited a silk weaving mill and a tea commune in Hangchow, a prison in Shanghai, and the Great Wall. In addition to seeing the sights, the Senator looked up relatives of some Massachusetts constituents and conferred with Foreign Minister Huang Hua and Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing. "I can't help being impressed by the motivation, the drive, the organization and the commitment of these people for modernization," says Kennedy. Caroline, a Radcliffe sophomore, and Michael, a Harvard sophomore, both plan to write term papers on their China jaunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 23, 1978 | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

...reached the conclusion this will not solve the problem of the psychological barrier between us and Israel, because I'm inviting the five big powers as if I am going to hide behind them. And the Israelis have no confidence in Brezhnev if he comes. [China'sChairman] Hua Kuo-feng supports the Arab cause, and the Israelis will not be happy with him. At that same time I was thinking of praying [during Greater Bairam, the Feast of Sacrifice] in Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. This is one of the three holiest places in the Muslim world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Anatomy of a Bold Action | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

...attempts of Mao's successors to revise the Chairman's teachings. For his enterprise, Munro was pointedly dropped from a government press trip to Tibet this summer. Two months ago, he received a rare official reprimand for "maliciously slandering Chairman Mao and the Central Committee headed by Chairman Hua"?though he was never told exactly how he had offended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: China Without Gee Whiz | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

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