Liu Shaoqi

Liu Shaoqui

President of the People's Republic of China ( April 28, 1959 - October 31, 1968)

             

Chinese Communist Party

• Past positions include being Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (1956-57), Vice Chairman of the Communist Party of China (1956-66), and Member of the National People's Congress (1954-68). 
• He led numerous political campaigns and strikes in Hubei and Shanghai, helped organize the 16 month long Canton-Hong Kong strike and reorganized underground activites in northern China centered around Beijinh and Tianjin.   Liu was an orthodox Soviet-style Communist who had favored state planning, development of heavy industry, ect.  In his writings [How to be a Good Communist (1939), On the Party (1945), and Internationalism and Nationalism (1952)] he expressed his political and economic beliefs
• In October 1968, Liu was officially denounced as "a renegade, traitor and scab hiding in the Party, a lackey of imperialism, modern revisionism and the Guomindang reactionaries", formally stripped all his positions and permanently expelled from the Party. He died in a Kaifeng prison, allegedly because he was refused medication for diabetes.