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Zhao Ziyang
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Students, we came too late. We are sorry. You talk about us, criticize us, it is all necessary. The reason that I came here is not to ask for your forgiveness.
Zhao Ziyang
Former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
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Lived 1919–2005, aged 86China
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Updated 2026-06-09
The Communist Party general secretary who stood with the students in Tiananmen Square in 1989, then spent the last sixteen years of his life under house arrest for it.
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Zhao Ziyang joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1938 and rose through military and regional posts during the war years and the early People's Republic. Persecuted during the Cultural Revolution, he was later rehabilitated and appointed to lead Guangdong and then Sichuan, where he broke with Maoist orthodoxy and pioneered free-market reforms that caught Deng Xiaoping's eye. He became premier in 1980 and general secretary in 1987, pushing privatization, bureaucratic reform, and the separation of party and state. But his sympathy for the student protesters in 1989 put him at odds with party eld…
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