Ruijin - The Cradle of the People’s Republic of China
The Communists fled to Ruijin in the late 1920’s, and it’s here where the Chinese Soviet Republic was established. From here the “Long March” began, and the rest is history.
We spent the day at the Ruijin Revolutionary Memorial Museum.
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DENG XIAOPING - WikiVidi Documentary
Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese revolutionary and politician. He was the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 until his retirement in 1989. After Chairman Mao Zedong's death, Deng led his country through far-reaching market-economy reforms. While Deng never held office as the head of state, head of government or General Secretary , he nonetheless was responsible for economic reforms and an opening to the global economy. Born into a peasant background in Guang'an, Sichuan province, Deng studied and worked in France in the 1920s, where he was convinced of Marxism-Leninism. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1923. Upon his return to China he joined the party organization in Shanghai, then was a political commissar for the Red Army in rural regions and by the late 1930s was considered a revolutionary veteran, because he participated in the Long March. Following the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, Deng worked in Tibet and the southwest region to con...
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00:03:23: Early life and family
00:05:31: Education and early career
00:08:37: Return to China
00:10:06: Political rise
00:10:45: Activism in Shanghai and Wuhan
00:12:04: Military campaign in Guangxi
00:13:14: At the Jiangxi Soviet
00:15:42: The Long March
00:17:22: Japanese Invasion
00:18:47: As Mayor of Chongqing
00:20:46: Political rise in Beijing
00:23:44: Cultural Revolution
00:26:37: 'Criticize Deng' campaign
00:28:43: Re-emergence post-Cultural Revolution
00:33:12: Opening up
00:41:48: Economic reforms
00:46:42: Export focus
00:50:26: Role in the Tiananmen Square protests
00:55:03: Resignation and 1992 southern tour
00:59:15: Death and reaction
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Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping (Pinyin: Dèng Xiǎopíng, [tɤŋ˥˩ ɕjɑʊ˩ pʰiŋ˧˥] ( ); 22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a Chinese politician and reformist leader of the People's Republic of China who, after Mao Zedong's death, led his country towards a market economy. While Deng never held office as the head of state, head of government or General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (de jure leader of the Communist Party of China), he nonetheless was the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to 1992. As the core of the second-generation leaders, Deng shared his power with several powerful older politicians commonly known as the Eight Elders.
Born into a peasant background in Guang'an, Sichuan, Deng studied and worked in France in the 1920s, where he was influenced by Marxism-Leninism. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1923. Upon his return to China he worked as a political commissar in rural regions and was considered a revolutionary veteran of the Long March. Following the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Deng worked in Tibet and other southwestern regions to consolidate Communist control.
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Deng Xiaoping (UK: ; US: ; 22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997), courtesy name Xixian, was a Chinese politician. He was the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 until his retirement in 1989. After Chairman Mao Zedong's death in 1976, Deng led China through far-reaching market-economy reforms. While Deng never held office as the head of state, head of government or General Secretary (that is, the leader of the Communist Party), he nonetheless was responsible for economic reforms and an opening to the global economy. During his paramount leadership, his official state positions were Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 1978–1983 and Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China from 1983–1990, while his official party positions were Vice Chairman of the Communist Party of China from 1977–1982 and Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China from 1981–1989.
Born into a peasant background in Guang'an, Sichuan province, Deng studied and worked in France in the 1920s, where he became a follower of Marxism–Leninism. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1923. Upon his return to China he joined the party organization in Shanghai, then was a political commissar for the Red Army in rural regions and by the late 1930s was considered a revolutionary veteran because he participated in the Long March. Following the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, Deng worked in Tibet and the southwest region to consolidate Communist control.
As the party's Secretary General in the 1950s, Deng presided over anti-rightist campaigns and became instrumental in China's economic reconstruction following the Great Leap Forward of 1957–1960. However, his economic policies caused him to fall out of favor with Mao, and he was purged twice during the Cultural Revolution. Following Mao's death in 1976, Deng outmanoeuvred the late chairman's chosen successor Hua Guofeng in December 1978. Inheriting a country beset with social conflict, disenchantment with the Communist Party and institutional disorder resulting from the chaotic policies of the Mao era, Deng became the paramount figure of the second generation of party leadership. Some called him the architect of a new brand of thinking that combined socialist ideology with pragmatic market economy whose slogan was socialism with Chinese characteristics. Deng opened China to foreign investment and the global market, policies that are credited with developing China into one of the fastest-growing economies in the world for several generations and raising the standard of living of hundreds of millions. Deng was also criticized for ordering the crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, but praised for his reaffirmation of the reform program in his Southern Tour of 1992 and the reversion of Hong Kong to Chinese control in 1997. He was the Time Person of the Year in 1978 and 1985, the second Chinese leader (after Chiang Kai-shek) and the sixth communist leader (after Joseph Stalin, picked twice, and Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and Ho Chi Minh) to be selected. He died in February 1997, aged 92.
Chinese Official Media Commemorate Hu Yaobang
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April 15 is the 24th anniversary of the death of former Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Hu Yaobang.
Many Chinese official media published articles to
commemorate Hu Yaobang.
They included photos of students gathered on Tiananmen
Square to commemorate Hu Yaobang when he passed away.
However, the alley of Hu Yaobang's home was blocked.
People who went to pay a visit were intercepted and expelled.
Zhongnanhai former secretary Yu Meisun recalled Hu Yaobang
once said to prevent the law toward reactionary.
It seems to be today's reality.
CCP Shanghai Municipal official newspaper Liberation Daily
published two articles on April 15th commemorating the 24th
anniversary of the death of Hu Yaobang.
Shanghai media veteran Zhou Ruijin, former Liberation Daily
party secretary and People's Daily deputy editor-in-chief,
wrote an article to commemorate Hu Yaobang:
China's reform is at a new stage that needs relentless push
and heavy punch.
To commemorate Hu Yaobang has
a very strong practical significance.
In addition, China Newsweek also published an article titled
Hu Yaobang's Funeral And Students Demonstration.
It disclosed that the media did not know how to cover
the death of Hu, as well as the history of the student movement.
The article says, In the morning, looking at Tiananmen Square
from the Great Hall, students filled the square.
They held up banners stating: Young Fighters, Democratic
Leaders, Blood for Democracy etc. A big storm is inevitable!
According to former Zhongnanhai secretary Yu Meisun,
on April 15th, he went to Hu Yaobang's home at Kuiji Alley.
He saw a big iron gate set up about 200 meters from the place.
It was blocked by the police.
About 20 to 30 petitioners holding flowers were stopped
outside the gate. Yu Mei-Sun was also and not allowed to enter.
Yu Meisun: There were about 20 to 30 petitioners,
holding flowers.
Petitioners are very poor, but they gathered 150 yuan as
each of them contributed 5 yuan, to get some flowers.
Yu Meisun said the police kept taking pictures and
shooting videos of them.
Several police cars and a bus came. Petitioners told him
the bus was to take people away.
Yu Meisun asked the petitioners to take a picture of him.
They were expelled by the police.
After Yu Meisun left, some friends who stayed behind said
petitioners were taken away by the bus.
Hu Yaobao's eldest son, member of the Standing Committee
of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference,
declined NTDTV's interview. He thanked them for the
intention of a memorial for his father.
Hu Deping: Let's not talk about it now. We can meet up
later and chat about something more relaxed.
Many people came today. We know how they feel.
We are also grateful to everyone.
Yu Meisun once worked at the State Department doing
legislative work for ten years, and reported to Hu Yaobang.
Hu Yaobang told him that Legislative work does not need
to be too much. It is important to let people remember.
Yu Meisun: In 1985, I was responsible for drafting the
legislative plan for the 7th Five Year Planning.
It was sent to HuYaobang. He said, you wrote so many articles.
One article is about 3,000 to 4,000 words.
Over 300 articles will be 1.2 million words.
How can people remember them?
Before then, Hu Yaobang also commented on
preventing the law from being anti-revolutionary.
Yu Meisun: In 1982, Hu Yaobang also provided his input
to the legislative plan for the 6th Five Year Planning.
He said there should not too many legal articles. We should
prevent the law to be against revolution.
I did not take it seriously. I thought he did not understand law.
Nine years later, Yu Meisun was slandered by Wen Wei Po
and was sent to prison.
When the police refused to show him any legal books,
he suddenly realized Hu Yaobang's understanding of the law.
Yu Meisun: After the interrogation, I come back from the
police station. The iron prison cell door slammed behind me.
Suddenly, I felt Yaobang was right, I was wrong.
I as a legislative professional cannot understand the law,
let alone the people.
In 1989, people commemorated Hu Yaobang voluntarily
after he passed away.
It was the beginning of the student democratic movement,
which led to the Tiananmen Square Incident.
In recent years, the calling to return innocence to the
Tiananmen Square Incident has got louder and louder.
Analysts believe official media's article praising Hu Yaobang's
achievements to return innocence to millions of people after
the Cultural Revolution implies that the authorities should
return innocence to the June 4th Movement.
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Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping ; 22 August 1904 -- 19 February 1997) was a politician and reformist leader of the People's Republic of China who, after Mao Zedong's death, led his country towards a market economy. While Deng never held office as the head of state, head of government or General Secretary of the Communist Party of China , he nonetheless was the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to 1992. As the core of the second generation leaders, Deng shared his power with several powerful older politicians commonly known as the Eight Elders.
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