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Wang Hongwen
Wang Hongwen | |||||||||||
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王洪文 | |||||||||||
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| Vice Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party | |||||||||||
| In office 30 August 1973 – 6 October 1976 | |||||||||||
| Chairman | Mao Zedong Hua Guofeng | ||||||||||
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| Born | 6 December 1935 Xinjing, Manchukuo (now Changchun, Jilin, China) | ||||||||||
| Died | 3 August 1992 (aged 56) Beijing, China | ||||||||||
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party (1953–1976) | ||||||||||
| Spouse | Cui Gendi | ||||||||||
| Children | 3 (2 sons and 1 daughter) | ||||||||||
| Military service | |||||||||||
| Branch/service |  People's Liberation Army Ground Force | ||||||||||
| Years of service | 1950-1956 | ||||||||||
| Rank | Second Lieutenant | ||||||||||
| Battles/wars | Korean War | ||||||||||
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| Chinese | 王洪文 | ||||||||||
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Wang Hongwen (6 December 1935 – 3 August 1992) was a Chinese labour activist and politician who was the youngest member of the "Gang of Four". He rose to prominence during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), after organizing the Shanghai People's Commune, to become one of the foremost members of national leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
At the pinnacle of his power he was the second Vice Chairman of the CCP, and ranked third in the Communist Party's hierarchy. Following Mao's death in 1976, Wang was deposed in an intra-party coup, arrested and charged with "counterrevolutionary activity", then sentenced to life imprisonment in 1981.
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