People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Soong Ziwen 宋子文 A Nationalist technocrat who bridged finance and diplomacy
- Gao Gang 高岗 The second-most powerful man in the CCP who wielded virtually autonomous power in Manchuria, then walked into Mao's trap and fell
- Chen Yun 陈云 CCP elder who designed China's socialist economic system with his 'bird-cage economy' concept
- Bo Yibo 薄一波 First finance minister and central figure of the “61 renegades” case, who returned in the reform era as a conservative elder
- Li Xiannian 李先念 The finance chief who survived the Cultural Revolution, helped arrest the Gang of Four and became president; one of the “eight elders”