Hu Yaobang's rise to power was engineered by Deng Xiaoping, and Hu rose to the highest levels of the Party after Deng displaced Hua Guofeng as China's "paramount leader". In 1980 Hu became General Secretary of the Central Committee's Secretariat , and was elected to the powerful Politburo Standing Committee .

Apr 5, 2025 · Hu Yaobang (born November 1915, Liuyang, Hunan province, China—died April 15, 1989, Beijing) was the general secretary (1980–87) and chairman (1981–82) of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Born into a poor peasant family, Hu received little formal education.

Apr 15, 2014 · The death in 1989 of Hu Yaobang, a former general secretary of the Communist Party who had been accused of being too soft on student protests, became a vehicle for the Chinese public to voice...

Apr 16, 2014 · Hu Yaobang, whose death 25 years ago triggered the Tiananmen Square protests, served China in an era of unprecedented openness.

On April 8, 1989, Hu Yaobang, the former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), was hospitalized in Beijing [1] due to a sudden heart attack. He died at 7:53 a.m. on April 15 at the age of 74, and his death served as a catalyst for the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. [2]

Apr 15, 1989 · Hu Yaobang, who helped navigate China away from orthodox Marxism and led the world's largest Communist Party for six years until he was forced to resign in disgrace in January 1987, died today...

Biography: Hu Yaobang was a Chinese reformist Communist leader and a close ally of party leader Deng Xiaoping, who helped liberalize China from its strict Marxist past under Mao Zedong. Hu Yao Bang joined the Communist party in 1933 and had been part of the Long March in 1934-5.

"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.

Feb 6, 2025 · What If Hu Yaobang Had Lived? The former Chinese Communist Party leader’s ousting and death led to the Tiananmen protests, but his life reveals a deeper push and pull between reformist and conservative impulses.

Hu Yaobang ho͞oˈ youˈbängˈ , 1915–89, Chinese Communist political leader, b. Hunan prov. Hunan prov. A protegé of Deng Xiaoping , Hu became general secretary of the Communist party in 1980 and party chairman in 1981, effectively replacing Hua Guofeng as leader of the Communist party.