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HU YAOBANG

CONFIDENTIAL

胡耀邦

General Secretary of the Central Committee

Born in Liuyang county, Hunan province

Joined the Chinese Communist Party

Long March

DSR 11C

Head of the Organisation Department of General Political Department of Military Commission

Political Officer in the 2nd Field Army (under Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping).

Secretary of North Sichuan Regional Party Committee

Chairman of North Sichuan Regional Administrative Office

Secretary of the New Democratic Youth League (from 1957 renamed Communist Youth League)

Member of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee

Member of the Central Committee

First Secretary of Shaanxi provincial Party Committee

Rehabilitated and appeared in Peking as a member of the NPC Standing Committee until 1975

Leading member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

1977-

1977-

Member of the Central Committee (11th-12th)

Vice-President of the Central Party School

1977-79

Director of the Organisation Department of the Central Committee

1978

Member of the Politburo

1978-83

Third Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Comm- ittee of the Central Committee

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1978-80

1979-80

Secretary General of the Central Committee

Director of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee

1980-

Member of the Politburo Standing Committee

1980-

1981-82

General Secretary and member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee

Chairman of the Central Committee

Hu Yaobang is one of Deng Xiaoping's closest

/collaborators.