Zhao Ziyang

American  

[jou zœ-yahng] / ˈdʒaʊ ˈzœˈyɑŋ /

noun

1. 1919–2005, Chinese Communist leader: premier 1980–87; general secretary of the Communist Party 1987–89.

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Example Sentences

As Mr. Bird tells us, Fok explained to Zhao Ziyang, China’s premier in the 1980s, that in Hong Kong “the government owned all of the land and funded its own capital expenditures with an extensive land-leasing program.”

From The Wall Street Journal

In 1989, Yan was a member of the four-person Secretariat under then-General Secretary Zhao Ziyang when student-led protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square appealed for a public voice in government and an easing of strict social and political controls.

From Seattle Times

Party elders picked Jiang to replace General Secretary Zhao Ziyang amid the party’s greatest crisis in the post-Mao era.

From Washington Post

His two immediate predecessors as party boss, Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang, had been purged.

From Washington Post

Acting outside normal party rules, Mr. Deng and a handful of retired elders decided to replace the party general secretary, Zhao Ziyang, who had resisted authorizing the use of armed force against the students.

From New York Times