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Hu Yao⋅bang

[hy you-bahng]
–noun
1915–89, Chinese Communist leader: general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party 1981–87.
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Hu Yao·bang   (hōō' you'bäng')   
Chinese politician who served as general secretary of the Communist Party from 1980 until he was forced to resign in 1987. His death sparked the Tiananmen Square protests (1989).
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Hu Yaobang

general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1981 to 1987.

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