On Aug 2, 1973, Hua Guofeng, Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai were seated in the first row of the podium. At the First Plenary Session of the 10th CPC held on Aug 30, Hua was elected as the member of CPC ...

Hua Guofeng, an obscure functionary who briefly served as the handpicked successor to Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong, died Aug. 20 in the Chinese capital. He was reportedly 87, and no cause ...

Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as Mao Zedong's handpicked successor before being toppled by reformists, died Wednesday. He was 87. IE 11 is not supported.

Hua Guofeng, who succeeded Mao Zedong as China's Communist Party leader for a short period before being brushed aside by economic reformers 30 years ago, died in the Chinese capital ...

Hua Guofeng briefly ruled China as the successor to Mao Zedong but was pushed aside as a prelude to reforms that led to an economic boom. He died at age 87 on Aug. 20, 2008.He took power after Mao ...

BEIJING – Hua Guofeng, one of the last of the early generation of Communist revolutionaries who was named briefly to succeed Chairman Mao Zedong, died Wednesday, Chinese state media reported.

BEIJING–The man who tried, but failed, to fill the shoes of Mao Zedong, died yesterday. State television announced last night Hua Guofeng – once briefly the most powerful man in China after he ...

Hua Guofeng, Mao Zedong's hand-picked successor, has died in Beijing at age 87, following an unspecified illness, according to Xinhua, the Chinese state news agency. Hua was one of the last of the ...

BEIJING - Hua Guofeng, handpicked by a dying Mao Zedong in 1976 to succeed him as Chinese Communist Party chairman but later toppled by reformist leader Deng Xiaoping, died in Beijing on Wednesday.

BEIJING — Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as communist founder Mao Zedong's successor but was pushed aside as a prelude to reforms that launched an economic boom, died Wednesday ...

Why did Mao Zedong choose Hua Guofeng as his successor? Maybe the answer spans Hua Guofeng's whole life. As China's top leader after Mao, Hua had played a role turning the tide in Chinese history.

Hua Guofeng briefly ruled China as the successor to Mao Zedong but was pushed aside as a prelude to reforms that led to an economic boom. He died at age 87 on Aug. 20, 2008.He took power after Mao ...