death_date blankname nationality birth_date term_end death_place order term_start namedata image spouse name caption deputy relations predecessor birth_place party successor native_name article_title
15 april 1989 chairman chinese 20 november 1915 january 12 , 1982 15 , 1987 september 11 , 1982 september beijing , china general party of china chairman of the central committee of the secretary communist party of china secretary-general of the cpc central secretariat of the central committee of the communist september 29 , 1980 11 , 1982 june 28 , 1981 february hua guofeng himself hu yaobang.jpg li zhao 0.2 em hu yaobang hu in april 1989 ye jianying hu second son -rrb- hu dehua -lrb- third son -rrb- li deping heng -lrb- daughter -rrb- -lrb- eldest son -rrb- hu liu -lrb- post -rrb- reestablished hua guofeng deng xiaoping -lrb- in 1966 liuyang , hunan , beiyang government communist party of china zhao ziyang post abolished post abolished 0.1 em hu yaobang

hu yaobang

hu yaobang -lrb- november 20 , 1915 -- april 15 , 1989 -rrb- was a high-ranking official of the people 's republic of china .
he achieved his most senior status within the communist party of china from 1981 to 1987 , first as party chairman from 1981 to 1982 , then as general secretary of the communist party from 1982 to 1987 .
hu joined the chinese communist party in the 1930s , and rose to prominence as a comrade of deng xiaoping .
during the cultural revolution -lrb- 1966 -- 1976 -rrb- , hu was purged , recalled , and purged again , following the political career of deng .
after deng rose to power , following the death of mao zedong , deng promoted hu to a series of high political positions .
throughout the 1980s hu pursued a series of economic and political reforms under the direction of deng .
hu 's political and economic reforms made him the enemy of several powerful party elders , who opposed free market reforms and attempts to make china 's government more transparent .
when widespread student protests occurred across china in 1987 , hu 's political opponents successfully blamed hu for the disruptions , claiming that hu 's `` laxness '' and `` bourgeois liberalization '' had either led to , or worsened , the protests .
hu was forced to resign as party general secretary , but was allowed to retain a seat in the politburo .
hu 's position as party general secretary was taken by zhao ziyang , who continued many of hu 's economic and political reforms .
a day after hu 's death , in 1989 , a small-scale demonstration commemorated him and demanded that the government reassess his legacy .
a week later , the day before hu 's funeral , some 100,000 students marched on tiananmen square , leading to the tiananmen square protests of 1989 .
following the government 's suppression of the 1989 protests , the chinese government censored the details of hu 's life inside mainland china , but it officially rehabilitated his image and lifted its censorship restrictions on the 90th anniversary of hu 's birth , in 2005 .
