Lu Dingyi | |
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![]() Lu Dingyi in 1942
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Deputy Vice Premier of the PRC | |
In office April 1959 – May 1966 |
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Premier | Zhou Enlai |
Vice Premier |
Chen Yun Lin Biao |
Minister of Culture of the PRC | |
In office February 1965 – May 1966 |
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Premier | Zhou Enlai |
Preceded by | Shen Yanbing |
Succeeded by | Xiao Wangdong |
Head of Central Propaganda Department | |
In office December 1944 – 1952 |
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Leader |
Zhang Wentian Mao Zedong |
Preceded by | Zhang Wentian |
Succeeded by | Xi Zhongxun |
In office July 1954 – December 1966 |
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Leader | Mao Zedong (chairman) |
Preceded by | Xi Zhongxun |
Succeeded by | Tao Zhu |
Personal details | |
Born |
Wuxi, Jiangsu, Qing China |
9 June 1906
Died | 9 May 1996 Beijing, China |
(aged 89)
Alma mater | University of Nanjing |
Lu Dingyi (simplified Chinese: 陆定一; traditional Chinese: 陸定一; pinyin: Lù Dìngyī; June 9, 1906 – May 9, 1996) was a leader of the Communist Party of China. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China and before the Cultural Revolution, he was credited as one of the top officials in socialist culture.
Lu Dingyi joined the Communist Party of China in 1925, while he was studying electrical engineering at the Nanyang Public School. After graduation, he fully joined revolutionary activities, being mainly involved in the Communist Youth League, writing articles for its newspaper Chinese Youth (later renamed Proletarian Youth and then Leninist Youth). In 1927 he took part at both the 5th CPC National Congress and the CYL Congress, being elected a member of the CYL Central Committee working with its Propaganda Department. He was actively involved in countering Chiang Kai-shek's anti-communist coup, organizing communist unities in Guangdong. In 1928 Lu Dingyi took part at the 6th CPC National Congress and the CYL Congress, both of which were held in Moscow, remaining in the Soviet Union until 1930 as a junior representative of the CYL to the Comintern.