People of the Revolution and the USSR
Government and administration
People’s Republic of China state institutions
Background: China
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- Soong Ching-ling 宋庆龄 Sun Yat-sen’s widow who stayed with the Kuomintang left and became a vice-chair of the People’s Republic
- Zhou Enlai 周恩来 The PRC's first premier and an architect of its foreign policy
- Xi Zhongxun 习仲勋 A founder of the northern Shaanxi base, purged for sixteen years, who opened Guangdong’s special economic zones
- Li Peng 李鹏 The premier who declared martial law in May 1989, called “the butcher of Beijing”; Zhou Enlai’s ward