Ren Zhongyi
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Ren Zhongyi (任仲夷) (September, 1914 to November 15, 2005), a famous Chinese politician, born in Weixian, Hebei province of North China, was a most able and respected leader in China's reform period since the late 1970s. He is widely regarded as the bold reformer who led Guangdong to come 'one step ahead' in China's reform. He served as the First Communist Party secretary of Harbin, Heilongjiang (1956-77), the First Party Secretary of Liaoning province (1977-80), and the First Party Secretary of Guangdong (1980-1985).
After he retired, Ren Zhongyi remained active in public affairs and was remarkably bold and outspoken. He was amongst a few influential people in China who still publicly advocated political reform. Due to the degree of reputation and influence that he had, the Party leaders could only tolerate and to some extent accommodate his views, whilst at the same time use other means (such as sacking the editors who published his views in their magazines) to minimise the effect of his speeches.
Ren Zhongyi was, like first and foremost a pragmatic politician, instead of being a rigid ideologue attached to the faith of dogmatic Marxism-Leninism and communism. This is in fact true for many outstanding reformers at the time, such as Deng Xiaoping, Hu Yaobang, Zhao Ziyang, Wan Li, Xiang Nan etc.
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