Hua Guofeng

[hwah gwaw-fuhng]

noun

1. 1920?–2008, Chinese Communist leader: premier 1976–80.

Example Sentences

At that time, many compared Jiang to Chairman Hua Guofeng, Mao's chosen successor, who was ousted by Deng in the late 1970s after a few short years at the helm.

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The first two Chinese leaders to succeed Mao, Hua Guofeng and Hu Yaobang, had the chairman title.

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Under the Communist leader’s successor, Hua Guofeng, Mr. Yuan rose to prominence in China for the first time.

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In 1976, it was announced in China that Hua Guofeng had been named to succeed the late Mao Zedong as chairman of the Communist Party; it was also announced that Mao’s widow and three others, known as the “Gang of Four,” had been arrested.

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Xi is the party’s general secretary, but not its chairman, a title Mao Zedong and his two successors, Hua Guofeng and Hu Yaobang, both held.

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