Word: yaobang
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...palace intrigue had indeed toppled Hua from his post, though the change may not formally take place until a party Congress can be convened next year. Hua's most likely successor is a man who has lately been receiving unusually prominent treatment in the Chinese press: Hu Yaobang, 65, the party's current Secretary-General and an ally of China's dominant leader Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping...
...most immediate sign that Chairman Hua is in trouble was that he has not been seen in public for more than three weeks. Last week he even failed to turn up for a visit by a Greek Communist Party delegation; the group was received instead by Hu Yaobang. Hu, like Deng, is one of the few survivors of the Long March. Like Deng, too, the peasant-born Hu has been twice purged and twice rehabilitated. His resurgence was signaled last February when he was named head of a restored party secretariat, a post that gives him control of the party...
...against Hua also seemed to presage a stepped-up purge of other party officials considered by Deng's forces to be disloyal or inept. Last week every major newspaper in China frontpaged a toughly worded statement by Vice Chairman Chen Yun that was cited by Secretary-General Hu Yaobang. It warned that changing the bad "work style" of some leaders was a "matter of life and death for our party...
...Central Committee also reconstituted the Communist Party Secretariat that had been dissolved during the Cultural Revolution. Many analysts believe that the Secretariat will soon become a key decision-making authority within the Politburo. Its new head, Hu Yaobang, is one of Deng's key allies. The Central Committee also elevated Hu and another Deng protege, Zhao Ziyang, to the powerful Standing Committee of the Politburo. Zhao, 61, is considered to be a rising star in Chinese politics and a potential successor to Deng...