# Hu Yaobang

> The Chinese Communist Party leader whose death sparked the Tiananmen Square protests. Forced out in 1987 for tolerating "bourgeois liberalization," Hu Yaobang's funeral in April 1989 became the flashpoint for student demands that Beijing could not contain.

*Chinese politician (1915-1989), former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Country:** China
- **Born:** 1915-11-20
- **Died:** 1989-04-15
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Hu Yaobang joined the Chinese Communist Party in the 1930s and survived Mao Zedong's purges during the Cultural Revolution — thrown out, brought back, thrown out again. After Mao's death, he rose as Deng Xiaoping's close ally and became party Chairman in 1981, then General Secretary in 1982. He oversaw the rehabilitation of wrongful convictions and pushed economic and political reforms through the 1980s, making enemies among party elders opposed to free-market changes. When student protests swept China in late 1986, those elders blamed Hu's tolerance and convinced Deng to remove him in early 1987. He died 15 April 1989; a week later, 100,000 students marched on Tiananmen Square the day before his funeral, igniting the protests that ended in the June massacre. The government censored his life until 2005, when it marked his 90th birthday by lifting restrictions and commemorating him.

## Fame
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- **Country rank:** #156

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## Topics
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