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

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politician. He was born in

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

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, Zhao was political

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for a guerrilla force in his home county and became a battalion commander in the

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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

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, 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), born Zhang Zongke (), was a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official, politician and calligrapher best known for having overseen the work of the CCP's internal security and intelligence appara ...

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 Alternates of the 8th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party

Zhao Jianmin Spy Case

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