On April 15, 1989, 25 years ago today, former CCP General Secretary Hu Yaobang died days after suffering a heart attack at his final meeting in Zhongnanhai. At the New York Times’ Sinosphere blog, ...

It has been three decades since the death in 1989 of former prominent party official and Chinese liberal reformer Hu Yaobang triggered mass student demonstrations. Those rallies ultimately led to the ...

The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Thursday held a symposium to mark the 110th anniversary of the birth of Hu Yaobang, a former prominent leader of the Party, at the Great Hall of ...

At a symposium commemorating the centenary of Hu Yaobang’s birth, President Xi Jinping praised the former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary for his achievements and his contributions to the ...

China marked the centenary of the birth of late reformist leader Hu Yaobang on Friday with an unusually high-profile official ceremony attended by the Communist Party’s seven most powerful men, ...

China’s leaders finally honored Hu Yaobang, a former Communist Party General Secretary who fell from grace in 1987, by commemorating the 90th anniversary of his birth on Friday. The small seminar at ...

Ceremonies to commemorate Hu's birthday are scheduled for November 20. Some observers view this as an attempt by President Hu Jintao to wear the mantle of Hu Yaobang's legacy. Beijing ...

Today's China owes him a great deal: he was the one who shifted China from Maoist ideology to economic reform. His calls for political reform generated great expectations and demonstrations, until the ...

China's ruling Communist Party has issued a collection of speeches and other works by reformist leader Hu Yaobang, whose death catalyzed the 1989 pro-democracy protest movement that was brutally ...