Thirty years ago yesterday, the death of high-ranking official and former CCP General Secretary Hu Yaobang prompted thousands of Chinese students sympathetic to the liberal official to take to the ...

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 ...

What the West Misses About China’s Nuclear Build-up Xi Jinping’s fate as the son of Communist revolutionary Xi Zhongxun is a mixed bag of privilege and purge, both of which determined Xi Jinping’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

China's Communist party pays homage to one of its most reform-minded leaders, a man the party had practically erased from history. But Friday's ceremony for Hu Yaobang, whose death helped spark the ...