Wang Dongxing

Wang Dongxing (Chinese汪东兴; * 1916) is a Chinese communist politician and former member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China.

Cultural Revolution and the overthrow of the Gang of Four

Wang Dongxing was originally bodyguard of Mao Zedong. During the Cultural Revolution, he was at the 9th Congress of the CPC in April 1969 as a candidate of the Political Bureau and member of the Central Committee of the CCP. Four years later, he became in 1973 a member of the Politburo at the 10th Party Congress of the CCP in August.

As commander of the 8341st Special Regiment, the bodyguard of the party leadership, he was instrumental in September and October 1976 at the fall of the Gang of Four, who wanted to seize power after the death of Mao Zedong.

Member of the Standing Committee and loss of power

Under Mao's successor as chairman of the Communist Party of Chin's (CCP ), Hua Guofeng, who since January was also the successor to the late Premier Zhou Enlai, Wang was in August 1977 at the 11th Congress of the CCP as a member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China and Deng Xiaoping selected next, and Ye Jianying Li Xiannian one of the Vice-Chairman of the CCP. He was a member of the senior executives, the party leadership.

With the growing influence of Deng Xiaoping Wang lost even in the late fall of 1977 from his position as Deputy Leader of the Party to Hu Yaobang. In February 1980, he eventually lost before the next Congress established in the Standing Committee of the Politburo.

At the 12th Congress of the CPC in 1982, he was elected in recognition of his role in the coup against the Gang of Four and a sign that political opponents will no longer face, at least not to the candidates of the Central Committee ( CC) of the CCP. After the 13th Party Congress in 1987, he retired from politics but from.