Word: yaobang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the opening of last week's party conference, only the fourth of its kind since 1921, it was clear that Deng was thoroughly in charge. As red flags outside the building snapped in a crisp autumn breeze, General Secretary Hu Yaobang, 70, told the 992 delegates that the leadership reshuffle that had begun in 1982 was now "nearly completed." Hu praised the retirees for their "exemplary role" in relinquishing their positions and suggested that "it is in response to the needs of the party that most veterans have retired...
...rising star in the political firmament today, is Hu Qili (pronounced Chee-lee), 55, a gifted Communist Youth League activist. Even before the Communist takeover in 1949, Hu Qili was recruited for the league's secretariat while a student at Peking University. ! There he attracted the attention of Hu Yaobang. Hu Qili is now the General Secretary's protege and, according to Politburo Member Peng Zhen, the likely successor. Hu Qili is described as a smooth and charismatic man. "He is what we call both Red and expert," says a middle-level party cadre. "He has good party credentials...
...levels, Deng has tried to ensure that his reforms will outlast him by weeding out opponents or gently moving them to the sidelines. In 1981 he eased out Party Chairman and Premier Hua Guofeng, Mao's choice for the succession, and installed in Hua's place General Secretary Hu Yaobang. The premiership, which Hua also held, went to Zhao Ziyang, the former governor of Sichuan. Last July, Propaganda Chief Deng Liqun, who had missed no opportunity in recent years to reaffirm "the purity of Communism," was ousted from his post. Deng Xiaoping has defanged other neo-Maoists, or "whateverists...
...collectively run enterprises were cheating on their taxes. Deng's government is concerned that jealousies could grow even further among China's many regions, thus affecting the pace of reform. This may intensify the need for the Deng leadership to forge a national vision that goes beyond Communism. Hu Yaobang recently told the party's propaganda department that "the most important political task of literary and artistic creation and performance is to inspire patriotism." But patriotism without a / higher goal can easily curdle into ugly nationalism. "There are obvious dangers to using nationalism here," says a Western diplomat. "The main...
...factional jousting has intensified as the Dengists have sought to expand their reform program. Last October, the government extended to urban areas and to certain large industries a system of economic incentives that had been extremely successful in the countryside. In April, the party's General Secretary, Hu Yaobang, announced that by the end of 1986 the People's Liberation Army would discharge a quarter of its 4 million men, thus becoming a more modern, streamlined and, by implication, more efficient force. In May, the government launched a new education plan and followed it with the pledge that China...