Hu Yaobang was born on 20th of
November , 1915; a native of Liuyang County, Hunan Province;
joined
Communist Party of China (CPC) and started work in September, 1933.
Glorious life of Hu
Yaobang marked (Official Comments on Hu Yaobang)
A symposium was held
on Friday to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the birth of Hu Yaobang,
the late senior leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
Premier Wen Jiabao,
Vice-President Zeng Qinghong and Wu Guanzheng, secretary of the CPC
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, attended the official
commemoration organized by the CPC Central Committee.
"Comrade Hu Yaobang
was a long-tested and staunch communist warrior, a great proletarian
revolutionist and statesman, an outstanding political leader for the
Chinese army, and a prominent leader who had long held crucial leading
posts of the CPC," said Vice-President Zeng while addressing the event.
In his revolutionary
career of six decades, Hu "contributed all his life and built immortal
merits for the liberation and happiness of the Chinese people, for the
development and prosperity of Chinese socialism, for the implementation
of the reform and opening-up policy as well as for the country's
modernization drive," Zeng said.
"His historic
achievements and moral character will forever be remembered by the Party
and people," Zeng stressed, adding that Hu lived a glorious life of a
Marxist.
Hu
was born on November 20, 1915, to a poor peasant family in Central
China's Hunan Province. He joined the CPC in September, 1933.
At the landmark Third
Plenum of the 11th CPC Central Committee in December 1978, Hu was
elected a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.
In February, 1980, Hu
was elected general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, a post he
took again in September 1982.
In November 1987, he
was elected a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central
Committee. Hu died in April, 1989, of a heart attack.
After leading the CPC
Central Committee Organization Department at the end of 1977, Hu helped
correct numerous misjudged cases during the "cultural revolution"
(1966-1976).
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Daily Nov.19, 2005 |