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Bo Yibo

1908 - 2007

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Bo Yibo (Chinese: 薄一波; pinyin: Bó Yībō; Wade–Giles: Po2 I1-po1; 17 February 1908 – 15 January 2007) was a Chinese politician. He was one of the most senior political figures in China during the 1980s and 1990s. After joining the Chinese Communist Party when he was 17, he worked as a Communist Party organizer in his native city of Taiyuan, Shanxi. He was promoted to organize Communist guerrilla movements in northern China from a headquarters in Tianjin in 1928, but he was arrested and imprisoned by Kuomintang police in 1931. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bo Yibo is the 9,485th most popular politician (down from 9,003rd in 2019), the 632nd most popular biography from China (up from 636th in 2019) and the 350th most popular Chinese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Bo Yibo ranks 9,485 out of 19,576Before him are Chea Sim, Conon de Béthune, Han Myeong-sook, Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies, Bera, Count of Barcelona, and Gaius Antonius Hybrida. After him are Safra Catz, Susanna Agnelli, Chuan Leekpai, Faure Gnassingbé, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, and Jacob Hutter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Bo Yibo ranks 131Before him are Anna Sten, Karl Hein, Gisèle Freund, Michael, Prince of Montenegro, Ivan Yefremov, and Yevgeny Vuchetich. After him are Krystyna Skarbek, Jack Williamson, David Marshall, Vazgen I, Françoise Dolto, and Juan López Fontana. Among people deceased in 2007, Bo Yibo ranks 140Before him are José Luis de Vilallonga, 9th Marquess of Castellbell, Andrej Kvašňák, Charles Lane, June Almeida, Fernando Fernán Gómez, and Barbara West. After him are Malietoa Tanumafili II, Mikhail Ulyanov, Evel Knievel, John P. Ryan, Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, and Jörg Immendorff.

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In China

Among people born in China, Bo Yibo ranks 632 out of 1,610Before him are Du Yuesheng (1888), Gu Yanwu (1613), Lie Yukou (-449), Tang Xianzu (1550), Cai Yuanpei (1868), and Li Kui (-500). After him are Boris Blacher (1903), Yi-Fu Tuan (1930), Li Hongzhi (1951), Zheng Jing (1642), Sergei Stepashin (1952), and Shi Pei Pu (1938).

Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, Bo Yibo ranks 350Before him are Huang Xing (1874), Zhu Yujian (1602), Wang Ming (1904), Konstantin Rodzaevsky (1907), Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei (408), and Cai Yuanpei (1868). After him are Zheng Jing (1642), Sergei Stepashin (1952), He Long (1896), Bo Gu (1907), Zhu of Xia (null), and Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama (1938).