biography
pronunciation:
[jow zeeyang]
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| male
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| (1918– )
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| biography:
| Chinese politician and prime minister (1980–7), born in Henan, C China. He joined the Communist Youth League in 1932, rose to prominence implementing land reform in Guangdong (1951–62), and became provincial first party secretary in 1964. He was dismissed during the Cultural Revolution (1966–9), rehabilitated in 1973, and appointed first party secretary of China's largest province, Sichuan, in 1975. Here he introduced radical and successful market-orientated rural reforms, which led to his induction into the Politburo as a full member in 1979 and his appointment as prime minister a year later. As premier, he oversaw the implementation of a radical new ‘market socialist’ and ‘open door’ economic programme, and in 1987 replaced the disgraced Hu Yaobang as Communist Party general secretary (until 1989). He was controversially dismissed for his allegedly over-liberal handling of student pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing. |
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