Zhao Jianmin () (June 24, 1912 – April 8, 2012) was a

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politician. He was born in

Guan County, Shandong Guan County () is a county of western Shandong province, People's Republic of China, bordered by Hebei province to the west. It is administered by Liaocheng City. The population was in 1999. History As an isolated county, with relatively low ...

Province. He was governor of his home province. During the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Th ...

, Zhao was political comissar for a guerrilla force in his home county and became a battalion commander in the

Eighth Route Army The Eighth Route Army (), officially known as the 18th Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China, was a group army under the command of the Chinese Communist Party, nominally within the structure of the Chinese ...

129th Division. He was Committee Secretary for

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as part of the Shandong-

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border region military district. During the

Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goal ...

, he became the provincial

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, but was falsely accused and persecuted by his predecessor as governor,

Kang Sheng Kang Sheng (; 4 November 1898 – 16 December 1975) was a Chinese Communist politician best known for having overseen the CCP's internal security and intelligence apparatus during the early 1940s and again at the height of the Cultural Revolut ...

Zhao Jianmin Spy Case

In 1967 Zhao Jianmin, then provincial secretary of the Communist Party in Yunnan, suggested to Kang Sheng that the massacres in the Cultural Revolution should be resolved democratically and peacefully, Sheng relayed to Mao Zedong that Jianmin was a spy. The ensuing purges of pro-Jianmin followers and alleged spies killed over 17,000, injured or crippled 61,000, and implicated nearly 1.4 million people.

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*Peter T. Y. Cheung, Chae-ho Chŏng, Zhimin Lin. Provincial Strategies of Economic Reform in Post-Mao China: Leadership. *Sherman Xiaogang Lai. A Springboard to Victory: Shandong Province and Chinese Communist Military. *Wolfgang Bartke. Who was Who in the People's Republic of China: With more than 3100 Portraits. *David Goodman. Deng Xiaoping and the Chinese Revolution: A Political Biography. *Peter Truhart. Asia & Pacific Oceania. *Frederick C. Teiwes. Politics and Purges in China: Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms. *Yang Jisheng. Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962. {{DEFAULTSORT:Zhao, Jianmin 1912 births 2012 deaths People's Republic of China politicians from Shandong Chinese Communist Party politicians from Shandong Governors of Shandong Zhao Delegates to the 1st National People's Congress Alternate members of the 8th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party

Zhao Jianmin Spy Case

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