What is Hu Yaobang?
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific-prefix = [[His Excellency]] | name=Hu Yaobang | native_name={{nobold|{{lang|zh-hans|胡耀邦}}}} | image=Hu Yaobang 1953.jpg | caption=Hu Yaobang in 1953 | order=[[General Secretary of the Communist Party of China]] | term_start=11 September 1982 | term_end=15 January 1987 | president=[[Li Xiannian]] | premier=[[Zhao Ziyang]] | predecessor=Post reestablished | successor=[[Zhao Ziyang]] | order1=[[Chairman of the Communist Party of China]] | term_start1=June 28, 1981 | term_end1=September 11, 1982 | deputy1=[[Ye Jianying]] | predecessor1=[[Hua Guofeng]] | successor1=Post abolished | order3=Secretary-General of the [[Secretariat of the Communist Party of China Central Committee|CPC Central Secretariat]] | term_start3=February 29, 1980 | term_end3=September 12, 1982 | 1blankname3 = Chairman | 1namedata3 = [[Hua Guofeng]]<br />Himself | predecessor3=[[Deng Xiaoping]] (in 1966) | successor3=Post abolished | birth_date={{Birth date|df=yes|1915|11|20}} | birth_place=[[Liuyang]], [[Hunan]], [[Beiyang Government]] | death_date={{Death date and age|df=yes|1989|4|15|1915|11|20}} | death_place=[[Beijing]], [[China]] | nationality=Chinese | spouse=Li Zhao | party=[[Communist Party of China]] | signature= |footnotes = }} '''Hu Yaobang''' (20 November 1915 – 15 April 1989) was a Chinese politician and a high-ranking official of the [[People's Republic of China]]. Hu Yaobang was a political ally of [[Deng Xiaoping]]. They fought together in the [[Chinese Civil War]]. Both were part of the [[communist]] force that took power of [[Sichuan]] in 1949. Hu became the leader of the [[Communist Youth League]] from 1952–1966. During the [[Cultural Revolution]], Hu Yaobang was said to not be true to the [[Communist Party of China]] and [[Mao Zedong]]. He was [[:en:Political_rehabilitation|rehabilitated]] twice. He was an important supporter of Deng Xiaoping's rise to power. Hu Yaobang's death in 1989 was a cause for the [[Tiananmen Square protests of 1989|Tiananmen Square