Pan Fusheng | |
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| 潘复生 | |
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| First Secretary of the Pingyuan Province Committee of the Communist Party | |
| In office August 1949 – March 1950 | |
| Succeeded by | Wu De |
| First Secretary of the Henan Province Committee of the Communist Party | |
| In office 1952–1958 | |
| Preceded by | Zhang Xi |
| Succeeded by | Wu Zhipu |
| First Secretary of the Heilongjiang Province Committee of the Communist Party (Head of Revolutionary Committee 1966–71) | |
| In office 1965–1971 | |
| Preceded by | Ouyang Qin |
| Succeeded by | Wang Jiadao |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 1908 Wendeng, Shandong |
| Died | April 1980 (aged 71) Harbin, Heilongjiang |
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party |
Pan Fusheng (Chinese: 潘复生; December 1908 – April 1980) was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician. He was the first party secretary of the short-lived Pingyuan Province of the People's Republic of China, and also served as the First Secretary (i.e. party chief) of Henan and Heilongjiang provinces.
During the Great Leap Forward, Pan sympathized with Marshal Peng Dehuai, a critic of Mao Zedong's collectivization policy. As a result, in 1958, he was dismissed as party chief of Henan and subjected to persecution, but was later rehabilitated.
When the Cultural Revolution began, Pan, then party chief of Heilongjiang province, embraced the rebel Red Guards movement and gained the support of Mao. However, he was soon involved in major factional violence, and was dismissed again in 1971 and put under investigation. In 1982, the Chinese Communist Party posthumously criticized him for committing "serious mistakes" during the Cultural Revolution.[1]