2nd Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, 2nd Premier of the People's Republic of China (1921–2008)
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.
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…
Sourced, dated quotes from Hua Guofeng
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.
During Chairman Mao’s lifetime, we united under his banner and fought victorious battles.
Marxism-Leninism holds that the completion of the democratic revolution opens the door to the socialist revolution.
The people’s democratic dictatorship led by the proletariat thus established was in essence the dictatorship of the proletariat.
China completed in the main the socialist transformation of the ownership of the means of production in 1956.
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