Mao Zedong's successor Hua Guofeng August 20 died of illness in Beijing

Beijing August 20, outstanding party members of the Communist Party of China, a long-tested loyal communist fighter, a proletarian revolutionary, has held important party and state leadership positions Comrade Hua Guofeng, illness treatment ineffective, in August 2008 At 12:50 on the 20th death in Beijing, the age of 87-year-old.

January 21, 1976, Mao Zedong proposed the State Council Hua Guofeng as acting prime minister and chaired the day-to-day work.

January 21, 1976 Hua Guofeng, Ji Dengkui, three Vice-Premier Chen Xilian to ask the President to identify a principal responsible comrades of the lead deal with the work of the State Council, three of them to do specific work. Mao Zedong's instructions: Please head with Hua Guofeng, Deng Xiaoping's exclusive foreign affairs.

July 1955, when Mao Zedong made a "Cooperative on agriculture issues," the report, then-secretary of the CPC Party Committee of Xiangtan, 34-year-old Hua Guofeng was made "in the Cooperative Movement must firmly rely on Pinnong" and other articles, Mao Zedong to read quite cordial and Hua Guofeng's name first aroused the attention of Mao Zedong. The Lushan Mountain in 1959 after the end of the meeting, Hua Guofeng Mao Zedong personally nominated as secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee. "913 incident", from Hunan, Mao Zedong transferred to the State Council Hua Guofeng as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Security.

[Experience in politics] Hua Guofeng was born in 1921, Shanxi Jiaocheng people. In 1938 to join the anti-Japanese, the Chinese Communists Jiaocheng, Yangqu county party secretary and political commissar of the county armed group. 1949 with the People's Liberation Army move south, in the county party secretary of Hunan, Area Commissioner, the secretary of the Hunan Provincial Committee, and other grades. "Great Cultural Revolution" during the first secretary of the Hunan Provincial Committee. 1975 Vice-Premier of the State Council, April 1976, first vice chairman of the CPC Central Committee, State Council Premier, in October the same year as Chairman of the CPC Central Committee, Chairman of the Central Military Commission. September 1980 resigned as premier of the State Council office, in June 1981 and resigned as Chairman of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission.