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Breaking News – Media Eulogized Hu Yaobang and Predicted Personnel Alterations

On the 19th of February during the conference of The CCP’s two national congress sessions, Xinhua Net (the official media) suddenly issued an article which highly praised Hu Yaobang, former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary. His quality and charm as a public servant are recognised through recalling a story of his demise in the early period. This comportment has triggered suppositions on CCP personnel changes from outside and a great number of applauded posts followed up on the net.

Selected from the CCP News Net, the article stated that although Hu Yaobang died 19 years ago, his great achievements of being a quality public servant are still widely praised. For the sake of evidence of his demise, the CCP News Net also attached a letter from Hu to Chen Yun and Deng Xiaoping, care of the Chairman and Original Secretary Office on the 22nd of September 1956.

On the anniversary of Hu’s 90th birthday in 2005, Hu Jintao and the CCP leadership wanted to hold a large-scale celebration for Hu Yaobang to show their goodness to reformists and in this way to consolidate their leading power. However, the resolution hasn’t been passed because of the Jiang’s favourites’ opposition at the meeting of the Standing Committee of Politburo. The proposal eventually was passed at the conference of Politburo finally, however, the celebration specifications were minimised and lowered under the compromisation of Hu Jintao by Zeng Qinghong, the Vice Chairman of the CCP.

According to sources, as the former General Secretary of The CCP Hu Yaobang averred moderate ways for the students’ protests when they advocated for democracy in 1987, Hu was attacked by the internal hardliners and was forced to resign his position. Because of that, Hu gained broad respect and esteem from citizens in China. On his death in April 1989, it triggered a larger scale and a wider range of demonstrations for democracy in various parts of China and was suppressed by the authorities on the 3rd of June 1989. Later, “Hu Yaobang” became a sensitive term in official media.

The above news is brought to you by Xia Yubing and Chris Thomas for Breaking News on the SOH Radio Network.