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Hu Yaobang
(ho͞oˈ youˈbängˈ) also Hu Yao-pang (-pängˈ) 1915-1989.
Chinese politician who served as general secretary of the Communist Party from 1980 until he was forced to resign in 1987. His death sparked the Tiananmen Square protests (1989).