Word: ziyang
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...chief of the Communist Youth League and his occasional bridge partner. Since then, Deng has chosen to operate largely behind the scenes, stressing that the reform program is not his work but that of the party. He has thus allowed his two deputies, General Secretary Hu and Premier Zhao Ziyang, 66, to establish themselves as the leading lights of the "second echelon" that has assumed the full mantle of power. With a little help from Deng, Hu and Zhao have in turn been grooming a "third echelon" of pragmatists, who should see the reforms into the 21st century...
...more "Red expert" on the fast track is Li Peng, 57, considered the man most likely to succeed Zhao Ziyang as Premier. A Soviet-trained engineer and a technocrat who once headed China's nuclear-energy program, Li became one of the country's four Vice Premiers two years ago. His principal rival for the premiership is Vice Premier Tian Jiyun, 56. Tian's main credential is that he helped to run Sichuan province for ten years as deputy to Zhao...
...piece of the action that the firm had to turn away thousands of individuals who responded to an advertisement posted at the store's entrance. The stock offering had official approval: it was orchestrated by the State Commission for Restructuring the Economic System, which is headed by Premier Zhao Ziyang...
...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" (so called because of their belief that whatever Mao said...
...stress Deng's emphasis on education, the Education Ministry was upgraded to a State Commission, a body with higher status than a ministry. It will be headed by Deputy Prime Minister Li Peng, 56, an engineer who is widely regarded as a possible successor to Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang. More important changes may come at a September party conference, when reformists will attempt to make leadership changes in party organizations by including more young, well-educated men and women in the Central Committee and even in the ruling Politburo...