Yao Yilin

Yao Yilin (Chinese姚依林; born September 6, 1917 in Hong Kong, † December 11, 1994 ) was a Chinese Communist politician, former Deputy Prime Minister and former member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China.

Origin and time of the Second World War

The son of a landowner a Christian school. Later he studied at Tsinghua University. While still a student he joined in 1935 the Chinese Communist Party (CCP ) at. During the Civil War he was from 1937 to 1949 political commissar of the PLA.

Founding of the People 's Republic of China and the Cultural Revolution

After the founding of the People 's Republic of China, he was an employee of the party management and specialized increasingly on economic matters. In this area, he earned a reputation as a pragmatic economic planner.

Beginning of 1960 he was Minister of Trade. In 1967 he was released as part of the Cultural Revolution from his office, however. Only in 1973 was his rehabilitation.

Ascent to the member of the Standing Committee and loss of power

Yao Yilin was elected at the 10th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC ) in 1973 as a candidate of the Central Committee ( CC). At the 11th Party Congress in 1977, he was first elected to the Central Committee of the CCP in 1992, he belonged to the 13th Party Congress.

Since July 2, 1979, he was through the promotion of Deng Xiaoping Deputy Prime Minister of the People's Republic of China. In this capacity he was largely responsible for economic policy. From 1980 he was also a member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee and was there responsible for economic affairs. In these positions, he also joined for more intensive economic relations with the Soviet Union, which led to the signing of a trade agreement in 1985.

At the 12th Party Congress in September 1982, he was appointed candidate and 1985 as a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee. At the 13th Congress of the CPC in 1987, he was also elected a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China. He belonged to the closest control loop, the party leadership, in which he was the Group of the hardliners around the later General Secretary of the CCP, Jiang Zemin, and the then Prime Minister Li Peng and with these a violent crackdown on student riots demanded that and in the third June 4, 1989 led to the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

After the 14th Party Congress of the CCP in 1992, he lost all his offices because of his age.