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Glorious life of Hu Yaobang marked
(China Daily)
Updated: 2005-11-19 06:45
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).
Hu Yaobang | 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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