Wang Zhen

Wang Zhen (Chinese王震, Pinyin Wang Zhen, born April 11, 1908 in Liuyang, Hunan Province, Imperial China, † March 12, 1993 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China) was a Chinese politician.

Life

Wang Zhen in 1927 joined the Communist Party of China (CPC ) and was a participant in the Long March of the Red Army in the years 1934 to 1935, the 12,000 -kilometer march from Jiangxi to escape from the National Army under the command of Chiang Kai- shek. After that he was in the war against the Imperial Japanese Army political commissar of a brigade that a wasteland in Nanniwan took in Shaanxi Province in 1941 and operated there by the agriculture could supply itself with food. During the Chinese Civil War, he was from 1945 to 1949 commander of troops against the national army of Chiang Kai- shek. In this position, it was possible in 1949 the production of communist rule in the Xinjiang region.

After the founding of the People 's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, he served in the People's Liberation Army and in 1955 was promoted to general. In 1956 he became a member of the CPC Central Committee and at the same time Minister of municipalities and cultivation in the government of Prime Minister Zhou Enlai. This office he retained during the lasting 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution.

Subsequently, he was from 1975 to 1980 Deputy Prime Minister and helped in this function Deng Xiaoping in 1977 to strengthen its position of power until 1978. This also meant that he himself was from 1978 to 1985 member of the Politburo of the CCP. After 1982 he became director of the Central Party School and called as one of the first politicians to the removal of existing as a " liberal" General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Hu Yaobang. However, it was during the power struggles of the different stock in 1987 initially to his own dismissal as director of the Central Party School.

In 1988 he became the successor of Ulanhu Vice President of the People 's Republic of China and remained during his term of office lasting until 1993, an influential spokesperson in favor of the People's Liberation Army and the Maoists and surviving veterans of the Long March. He was also a supporter of the initiated by Deng Xiaoping Tiananmen Square Massacre to end the months- long occupation of the square of Heavenly Peace in Beijing and even suggested that "all bourgeois - liberal counter-revolutionaries in remote regions such as Qinghai and Xinjiang should be banned. on the other hand, he belonged to a small group of old party functionaries of the first generation of leaders that its reform and opening-up policy practiced constantly, but without much success, to limit pressure on Deng.

Zhen is one of the "Eight Untsterblichen of the Communist Party of China ".