Word: zhao
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jinglun Zhao, a Nieman Fellow from China, said the trial "implies the negation of the Cultural Revolution," adding, "It certainly will implicate the Chairman...
...Zhao said the next Party Congress will also evaluate Mao. "The evaluation will probably be 70 per cent good and 30 per cent bad. "They will be cutting him down to size...
...whole life, and I am continuing to make revolution." So said Vice Premier Wan Li, 64, at the beginning of an hourlong meeting in Peking's Great Hall of the People. Wan, a tall, affable, silver-haired man, is widely regarded as the key official below Premier Zhao Ziyang in China's new government. Until early this year he was the governor of Anhui province in the eastern part of China; there, as in Premier Zhao's Sichuan, the new national economic policies were first tested. Wan was brought into the central government when Party Vice Chairman...
...Zhao now faces the formidable task of making China's backward economy productive and of shaking up a stifling bureaucracy. He has his work cut out for him. Recently, for example, a foreigner imported a car. The exercise involved three visits to the Public Security Bureau, three to the country's only insurance company, three more to the customs office. The final mandatory stop-the car must be clean before it can be licensed-was at Peking's only car wash, where the bill came to $40. Exclaimed a Chinese intellectual on hearing the story...
...given the chance. But there is also an astonishing lack of bitterness toward the regime, even among those who suffered terribly during the past two decades. Indeed there is an almost palpable desire among the Chinese to restore the greatness of their civilization. That kind of patriotism provides Premier Zhao, who also suffered during the Cultural Revolution, with a powerful asset as he sets himself to the chore of making China's "Four Modernizations" work...