Tao Zhu

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Tao Zhu (1908-1969) is a Former Member of the 8th Communist Party of China Politburo Standing Committee.

He was Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee and Commander of the Guangzhou Military Region.

He later became First Secretary of the Central-South region, and in 1965 was moved to Beijing to replace Lu Dingyi as Director of the Central Propaganda Department. He was a Vice Premier of the State Council and Secretary of the Central Secretariat of the CCP, as well as an advisor to the Central Cultural Revolution Group.

He became a member of the Politburo Standing Committee at the Eleventh Plenum in August 1966, but was purged during the Cultural Revolution in 1967 and died under house arrest in 1969.

He was posthumously exhonerated in 1978. He was remembered as a great man of integrity.

[edit] Family in politics

• Tao Siliang, daughter. Secretary, China Association of Mayors