Hua Guofeng

✶February 16, 1921

†August 20, 2008

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About their life

Hua Guofeng was a Chinese politician who served as chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and the premier of China. As the successor of Mao Zedong, Hua held the top offices of the government, party, and the military after the deaths of Mao and Premier Zhou Enlai, but was gradually forced out of power between December 1978 and June 1981, and subsequently retreated from the political limelight, though still remaining a member of the Central Committee until 2002.

Leader of China from 1976 to 1978

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Biography from the article Hua Guofeng on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.