Chen Yonggui | |||||||
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| 陈永贵 | |||||||
 Chen in 1966 | |||||||
| Vice Premier of China | |||||||
| In office 17 January 1975 – 10 September 1980 | |||||||
| Premier | Zhou Enlai Hua Guofeng | ||||||
| Personal details | |||||||
| Born | 14 February 1915 Xiyang County, Shanxi, Republic of China | ||||||
| Died | 26 March 1986 (aged 71) Beijing, People's Republic of China | ||||||
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 陳永貴 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 陈永贵 | ||||||
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Chen Yonggui (Chinese: 陈永贵; pinyin: Chén Yǒngguì; Wade–Giles: Ch'en Yung-kuei; circa 1914 – 26 March 1986) was a Chinese politician. Though he was an illiterate peasant, he became a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party and Vice Premier of China because of Mao Zedong's recognition of Chen's leadership, during the Cultural Revolution, in turning Dazhai into a model for socialist agriculture.[1][2][3]
According to official record of the Xiyang County in Shanxi Province, from 1967 to 1979, under Chen's leadership, the county completed 9,330 projects of agricultural and hydraulic infrastructure construction, extending the total arable land by 98,000 mu (around 16,144 acres), but at the cost of 1,040 casualties including 310 deaths.[3][4]
After Deng Xiaoping initiated the Reforms and Opening up of China in the late 1970s, Chen gradually lost power and resigned in September 1980.[4][5] He died of lung cancer in Beijing in 1986.[2]
- ^ Feng Dongshu, Wenmang zaixiang Chen Yonggui, Beijing: Zhongguo Wenlianchubanshe, 2001.
- ^ a b "Chen Yonggui Dies in China; Peasant Who Rose to the Top". The New York Times. 1986-03-27. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-11-29.
- ^ a b "The illiterate former vice premier: Chen Yonggui". cpcchina.chinadaily.com.cn. Archived from the original on 2021-08-04. Retrieved 2019-11-29.
- ^ a b "陈永贵升职后骄横：批过邓小平，骂过胡耀邦". history.people.com.cn (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2019-06-08. Retrieved 2019-11-29.
- ^ Tsou, Tang; Blecher, Marc; Meisner, Mitch (1982). "The Responsibility System in Agriculture: Its Implementation in Xiyang and Dazhai". Modern China. 8 (1): 41–103. doi:10.1177/009770048200800102. hdl:2027.42/69144. ISSN 0097-7004. JSTOR 188833. S2CID 145666647.