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On April 15, 2013, the anniversary of Hu Yaobang's death, official media in mainland China, including the Liberation Daily and the People's Daily, published articles mourning Hu Yaobang, marking the first time such mourning has appeared since General Secretary Xi Jinping and other new CCP Central Committee leaders came to power. [30] [31] [32]
In April 2010 (the 21st anniversary of Hu's death), Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao wrote an article in the People's Daily titled "Recalling Hu Yaobang when I return to Xingyi". [38] Presented as an essay, it recollected an investigation of ordinary people's lives by Hu Yaobang and Wen Jiabao in Xingyi County, Guizhou, in 1986. Wen, who worked with ...
The death of Hu Yaobang on April 15, 1989, coupled with growing economic hardship caused by high inflation and other social factors, provided the backdrop for a large-scale protest movement by students, intellectuals, and other parts of a disaffected urban population.
The protests were precipitated by the death of pro-reform Chinese Communist Party (CCP) general secretary Hu Yaobang in April 1989 amid the backdrop of rapid economic development and social change in post-Mao China, reflecting anxieties among the people and political elite about the country's future.
The student movement in Beijing in the spring of 1989 was triggered by the death of former CCP General Secretary Hu Yaobang on April 15. Well before martial law was declared on May 19, the government called army troops into the city to help the police maintain order.
"Li's sudden death definitely came as a surprise, as he was merely 68. Top level Chinese leaders have a track record of longevity - both of Li's last two living predecessors, Premier Zhu Rongji ...
On April 17, 1989, small posters related to Hu Yaobang's death started to show up around Shanghai university campuses. During the next day several impromptu groups comprising thousands of students started to publicly mourn Hu. One group went so far as to demand to meet officials of the municipal government but ended up unsuccessful. [30]
Hu Yaobang, 73, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, heart attack. [12] Bernard-Marie Koltès, 41, French playwright and theatre director, AIDS. Freda Lingstrom, 95, British BBC Television producer (Flower Pot Men, Andy Pandy). Alita Román, 76, Argentine film actress (Mujeres que trabajan, Concierto de almas).