Word: zhao
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...make that statement. Among the more sensational advance reports on the congress's actions was that Hua, who is also Chairman of the Communist Party, would formally be relieved of his government duties as Premier and replaced by former Governor of Sichuan province Zhao Ziyang, 62. That was likely to be the most dramatic step taken to accomplish the ambitious goal of transferring government power from one group to another. Along with the resignation of Hua, who, at 60, is himself relatively young, will come the voluntary departure from their government posts of some half a dozen old revolutionaries...
Even before the congress opened last week, the new officials had quietly taken up the day-to-day operations of their posts. All are close associates of Deng's. The best known is Premier-designate Zhao, who enjoys a national reputation for his innovations with free markets, bonuses and a relatively liberal system of local autonomy in Sichuan, China's most populous province. Wan Li, 64, former head of Anhui province-and, as it happens, a reputed bridge partner of Deng's-will become head of the state agricultural commission...
...young scholar (Fu Peng) passes the door of a farmer's daughter (Zhao Yanxia) and starts the usual boy-meets-girl talk. The situation progresses, and they burst into song, both in falsetto, until a matchmaker comes along and provides the mandatory happy ending...
...suffered during the Cultural Revolution, the fact that the Peking company exists at all is a kind of miracle. Mao Tse-tung's wife, the arrogant and mischievous Jiang Qing (Chiang Ch'ing), barred all classical productions as antirevolutionary, and a major artist like the enchanting Zhao Yanxia had to spend five years planting wheat in the provinces. Thankfully, Jiang herself has now fallen out of favor, and Zhao and her colleagues can now delight Americans, as they and their predecessors have been thrilling the Chinese for generations...
...will resign as Premier when the People's Congress meets later this month. Though Hua will reportedly retain the post of Chairman that was held by Mao, the party leaders are expected to act on proposals to reduce greatly the power of that office. Hua's successor, Zhao Ziyang, 61, is the hand-picked candidate of the Senior Vice Premier, Deng Xiaoping. Like Deng, Zhao is one of the many who have once again risen to power in China, after being ignominiously purged by Mao during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s...