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Hua Guofeng

2nd Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, 2nd Premier of the People's Republic of China (1921–2008)

  • Fame58.9
  • Momentum0.0
  • China rank#180
Source-basedFalling
  • Fame58.9
  • Momentum0.0
  • China rank#180
  • Politicians rank#249
  • Wikipedia64.1K
Lived 1921–2008, aged 87China
China flagChinaPoliticiansPolitician
  • Wikipedia
    63 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Rank in China
    #180
    Politicians
  • Era
    1921–2008
    Aged 87
Summary
Updated 2026-06-21

He took the throne after Mao died, arrested the Gang of Four within a month, and held every lever of power in China at once — party chairman, premier, military chief. Then Deng Xiaoping quietly dismantled him, and he spent the next three decades as a living ghost in the party, insisting Mao had been right all along.

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Profile type
Politician
Category
Politicians
Country
China
Country rank
#180
Category rank
#249
Last updated
2026-06-21
Biography

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Born Su Zhu in Jiaocheng, he joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1938 and fought as a guerrilla through the war years. In 1948 he became party secretary of Xiangtan in Hunan — a posting that included Shaoshan, Mao's birthplace — and rose through provincial administration until the Cultural Revolution pushed him to Hunan's top post and then the national stage: Ministry of Public Security in 1973, vice premier in 1975. When Zhou Enlai died in January 1976, Mao made Hua premier and first vice chairman, the designated heir. A month after Mao's death in October 1976, Hua arrested the Gang of Four…

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Hua Guofeng
said · 23 Oct 1977
In a word, the revolutionary committees elected must be good so that the people will rejoice and support them and feel encouraged when the lists of the members are announced.
— Speech at the Fourth Session of the Standing Committe of the Fourth National People's Congress (23 October 1977) (excerpts)
Hua Guofeng
said · 1977
During Chairman Mao’s lifetime, we united under his banner and fought victorious battles.
— Continue the Revolution Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat to the End (1977) (excerpts)
Hua Guofeng
said · 1977
Marxism-Leninism holds that the completion of the democratic revolution opens the door to the socialist revolution.
— Continue the Revolution Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat to the End (1977) (excerpts)
Hua Guofeng
said · 1977
The people’s democratic dictatorship led by the proletariat thus established was in essence the dictatorship of the proletariat.
— Continue the Revolution Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat to the End (1977) (excerpts)
Hua Guofeng
said · 1977
China completed in the main the socialist transformation of the ownership of the means of production in 1956.
— Continue the Revolution Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat to the End (1977) (excerpts)
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58.9
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Historical26.3
Source confidence60.0
Completeness70.0
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#180
Category rank
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#249
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  • Pantheon 2.0
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    High confidence
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China
Category
Politicians
Profile type
Politician
Status
deceased
Born
February 16, 1921
Died
August 20, 2008
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Last updated
26d ago
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