Wang Guangmei - Wang Guangmei

…In 1959, he succeeded Mao Zedong as president, and worked with General Secretary Deng Xiaoping to implement adjustment policies to overcome the economic stagnation caused by the failure of the Great Leap Forward and natural disasters. However, when the Cultural Revolution began in 1966, he was demoted to eighth place in the party hierarchy at the 11th Plenary Session of the 8th Central Committee in August, and was subsequently criticized as the most powerful faction in the party that was pursuing the path of capitalism, ``China's Khrushchev,'' and was publicly denounced by the Red Guards along with his wife, Wang Guangmei. At the 12th Plenary Session of the 8th Central Committee in October 1968, he was permanently expelled from the party. …

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…59年毛沢東の後をうけて国家主席に就任，大躍進政策の失敗と天災による経済の行きづまりを鄧小平党総書記と協力して調整政策を実施して切り抜けた。　しかし66年文化大革命が始まると，8月の8期11中全会で党内序列第8位に格下げされ，その後資本主義の道を歩む党内最大の実権派，〈中国のフルシチョフ〉という非難が集中し，王光美夫人とともに紅衛兵のつるし上げにあった。68年10月の8期12中全会では党から永久除名された。…

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