Political figures

Deng Xiaoping (August 22, 1904 - February 19, 1997), formerly known as Xiansheng and scientific name Xixian, was officially renamed Xiaoping in 1927. His former name was Deng Bin. He was male and a native of Guang'an, Sichuan. He was a political figure of the Communist Party of China and the People's Republic of China and a former national-level leader. He established his leadership position at the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held in 1978 and became the second generation of the supreme leader of the People's Republic of China and the core of the second generation of the central leadership collective of the Communist Party of China. Deng served as Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China from 1977 to 1982, Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China from 1981 to 1989, and Chairman of the State Military Commission from 1983 to 1990. He also served as Director of the Advisory Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and Vice Premier of the State Council. Chinese officials call him the "chief architect of reform and opening up."

Deng Yue (1918-2000), male, native of Macheng, Hubei Province, political figure of the People's Republic of China and major general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

Deng Tuo (February 26, 1912 - May 18, 1966), whose nickname was Xu Chu, formerly known as Zijian, and whose pen names were Manancun, Deng Yunte, Zuo Hai, etc., was male and a native of Min County, Fujian (now Fuzhou). He was a political commentator, scholar, and writer in Chinese newspapers and periodicals. He was an important member of the propaganda front of the Communist Party of China. He has long served as the president of the People's Daily and other leading positions in major central propaganda agencies. Later, he was reprimanded for repeatedly failing to understand the meaning of Mao Zedong's political deployment, and was dismissed from his actual post in the People's Daily. He committed suicide due to political criticism on the eve of the Cultural Revolution, and was exonerated in 1979.

Deng Zhiyi (August 1965-), a native of Shuangfeng, Hunan, Han nationality, a political figure of the People's Republic of China, and a representative of Hubei region in the 12th National People's Congress. Graduated from Renmin University of China majoring in currency and banking. Join the Communist Party of China. In 2013, he served as a deputy to the National People's Congress.

Chow Charn Ki Kenneth (English: Chow Charn Ki Kenneth, born October 3, 1953), Han nationality, politician of the People's Republic of China, member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, member of the Chinese Revolutionary Committee and member of the Democratic National Construction Association.

Jeong Joo-young (Korean: Jooyoung Jeong/ Jeong Joo-young, romanized: Jeong Ju-yeong, November 25, 1915 - March 21, 2001), No. Asan (Korean: Asan/Asan), Korean entrepreneur, founder and first president of Hyundai Group, Korean National Federation of Economics The 13th-17th president (February 1977 to February 1987). In 1995, he was named one of the six Asian business giants by Time magazine. In 1999, he was selected as one of the "World-renowned Entrepreneurs" by the American Business Weekly. Chung Ju-young is known as South Korea's financial president and is known as "a giant of the times who has left his footprints at every important juncture in South Korea's modern history." There is a saying in South Korea that some people may not know who the president of South Korea is, but no one does not know who Jung Joo-young is. Zheng Zhouyong was born in a poor peasant family in North Korea. He started from scratch and ran a rice store and a car repair shop in his early years. After the liberation of Korea, he started in the automobile repair and construction industry, and later entered automobile manufacturing, shipbuilding, electronics and other fields. During Park Chung-hee's administration, the Hyundai Group he founded rapidly developed into one of South Korea's largest chaebols. In the 1980s, Hyundai Group ranked among the top 100 Fortune 500 companies. In 1997, Zheng Zhouyong's net worth was US$6 billion, making him the 10 richest man in Asia and one of the 30 richest people in the world. Zheng Juyong is the chairman of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games Bid Promotion Committee. At a time when Seoul was extremely unfavorable both inside and outside South Korea, Chung Ju-yong led the South Korean bid team to defeat Nagoya, Japan, which everyone was optimistic about, and won the right to host the Olympic Games, making great contributions to Seoul's successful bid to host the 1988 Olympic Games. He was also a "private diplomat" and was the first South Korean entrepreneur to visit the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China and North Korea. He played a role in promoting the establishment of diplomatic and economic and trade relations between South Korea and the Soviet Union and China, and played an important role in improving North-South relations on the Korean Peninsula. Zheng Zhouyong supports public welfare undertakings through the Asan Foundation. It is estimated that he donated more than $1 billion to charity during his career. A 1997 Forbes magazine survey ranked Chung as the third-largest philanthropist after Walter Daneberg ($1.2 billion) and George Soros ($1.1 billion).

Zheng Zhenduo (December 19, 1898 - October 17, 1958), also known as Jingmin, also known as Duomin, nicknamed Muguan, pen name Guo Yuanxin, Xidi, etc., was born in Changle, Fujian Province, and was born in Yongjia, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province. He was a Chinese writer, literary historian, political figure, and one of the founders of the China Association for the Promotion of Democracy. The study used the name "Xuanlang Hall" and had many pseudonyms such as Youfang Pavilion Master, Renqiu Hall Master, Renqiu, Youfang, Youhuang, Binfen, Guo Yuanxin, etc.

Guo Boquan (October 1961-) was born in Liquan County, Shaanxi Province. He started working in March 1983 and joined the Communist Party of China in 1987. Politician of the People's Republic of China. He holds a postgraduate degree from the Party School of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. The younger brother of Guo Boxiong, former vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China.

Terry Gou (October 18, 1950 -) is an industrialist, philanthropist, and non-party (formerly member of the Kuomintang of China) politician in the Republic of China. He is the founder of Hon Hai Technology Group and has been the richest man in Taiwan for many years. Born in Banqiao Town, Taipei County (now Banqiao District, New Taipei City), he was originally from Jincheng City, Shanxi Province. He graduated from the China Maritime College and retired as an anti-aircraft artillery officer in the Air Force of the Republic of China. He founded Hon Hai in 1974 and subsequently sponsored political donations to the Kuomintang for a long time. After retirement, he also got involved in political work. In 2019, he participated in the KMT presidential primary election but was not nominated, which led him to form an alliance with the People's First Party and the Taiwan People's Party. In 2023, he participated in the KMT presidential primary election but was not nominated. On August 28 of the same year, he announced his independent participation in the 2024 presidential election of the Republic of China, but failed to register. "30 Memos from Father Guo to Young People" is the only handwritten work.

Guo Zongxi (1878-December 29, 1934), named Tongbai, male, was born in Changsha, Hunan. Politicians in the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China, and Manchukuo.

Guo Zhi (1925-March 11, 2023) was born in Xisigong Village, Gaocheng County, Zhili Province. Politician of the People's Republic of China. In 1941, he joined the Communist Party of China and joined the Eighth Route Army. He successively served as the instructor of the squadron of the Baojiang Brigade in Gaowu County, the propagandist and cultural instructor of the 17th Regiment of the Jizhong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, and the instructor of the 17th Regiment and Company of the Third Independent Brigade of the Jinsui Military Region. He participated in the May 1st counter-mopping up in central Hebei, defending Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia, fighting Guisui, fighting Zhuozishan, fighting Yuanping, fighting Fenyang, defending Zhangjiakou and other battles. He was wounded many times in the battle and became disabled due to injuries. Later, he moved to local work. In 1947, he served as the district chief and district committee secretary of Gaocheng County. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was promoted to Secretary of the Gaocheng County Committee of the Communist Party of China. In 1960, he successively served as member of the Standing Committee of the Shijiazhuang Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China, Minister of Agriculture and Industry, Secretary-General, Executive Deputy Commissioner of the Shijiazhuang District Commissioner's Office, and Deputy Secretary and Acting Commissioner of the Shijiazhuang Prefectural Committee. Acting Secretary of the Hengshui Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China. After the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, he was criticized and attacked. Later he came to work and served as deputy director of the Revolutionary Committee of Hengshui District, Hebei Province and deputy leader of the Party's core group. After May 1971, he successively served as member of the Standing Committee of the Hebei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, secretary-general, deputy secretary, secretary, deputy director of the Hebei Provincial Revolutionary Committee, executive vice governor, and deputy governor. In 1985, he served as deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Hebei People's Congress. In 1988, he was promoted to director. In 1993, he was appointed as a member of the Financial and Economic Committee of the Eighth National People's Congress. Delegate to the Ninth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Fourteenth National Congress, and the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth National People's Congress.

David Kwok (English: David Kwok, 1904-April 9, 1986), also known as Jingtang, male, ancestral home in Xiangshan, Guangdong, born in Sydney, Australia, Chinese entrepreneur, member of the Guo Peixun family.

Guo Yushan (1977-), a native of Putian, Fujian, is a Chinese public intellectual. He holds a master's degree in political economics from Peking University. He is the founder, director and director of the Chuanzhixing Institute of Social and Economic Research. He is a special commentator of China Business News and the former executive editor of "New Youth·Weighing" magazine. His main research areas are regulatory economics analysis of people's livelihood and public policies. He has also advocated regulatory reforms to break up monopolies for many years. Currently involved in research in Chuanzhixing taxation, taxi industry, Three Gorges Project and other fields. Writer Yu Shicun described him as "a passionate scholar who has done salons, charity, environmental protection, rights protection, academics, and translation."

Yan Dong (December 1967-), male, Han nationality, political figure of the People's Republic of China, member of the Communist Party of China. Graduated from college. He is currently a member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China.

Deng Chuankai (September 7, 1912 - January 3, 1999), born in Jiangyin County, Jiangsu Province, the Republic of China, was an educator, writer, politician, diplomat and Olympic pioneer in the Republic of China. He has served as president of National Yingshi University, deputy secretary-general of the Central Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, chairman of the Central Intellectual Youth Party Department, chairman of the Central (Design) Assessment and Disciplinary Committee, chairman of the All-China Sports Association, chairman of the Chinese Olympic Committee, political secretary of the Ministry of Education, minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and chairman of the Asia-Pacific Scout Region of the World Organization of Scouting Movement.

Stephanie Murphy (English: Stephanie Murphy, Vietnamese: Đặng Thị Ngọc Dung, Chinese characters: Deng Thi Ngoc Dung, September 16, 1978 -), Vietnamese-American politician.

Shigemitsu Aoi (Japanese: Shigemitsu Aoi/Shigemitsu Protect, Romanized: Shigemitsu Mamoru (July 29, 1887 - January 26, 1957), Japan's Minister of Foreign Affairs at the end of World War II. He was active in the diplomatic field from World War I to World War II and the political arena of China, Japan, Korea, and Manchukuo for 40 years, and participated behind the scenes. He even led the rule and foreign policy formulation of many countries invaded by Japan. The most famous one is his strategy in Northeast China. He successfully found Puyi and used him to establish Manchukuo. After the war, he signed a surrender treaty with the Allies on behalf of Japan and wrote "The Troubles of Showa" (volume 1 and 2).

Nosaka Akiyuki (Japanese: Nosaka Akiyuki/Nosaka Akiyuki, Romanized: Nosaka Akiyuki, October 10, 1930 - December 9, 2015), was born in Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. He is a writer, singer, lyricist, and a former member of the Japanese Senate. When working as a screenwriter, he used the pen name Amu Yukio; when performing as a chanson singer, his stage name was Claude Nosaka (Japanese: Nosaka, French: Claude Nosaka); when performing as a rakugo artist, his stage name was Tachikawa Emperor. He once formed the Mancai duo with Nozo Chenhei.

Nomura Yoshisaburo (Japanese: Nomura Yoshisaburo/Nomura Kisaburo, December 16, 1877 - May 8, 1964) was a Japanese naval admiral, diplomat, and politician in the early Showa era. The rank of meritorious service is the first-class and second-class merit of the second rank of naval admiral.

Noda Yoshihiko (Japanese: Noda Yoshihiko／Noda Yoshihiko, Romanized: Noda Yoshihiko, born on May 20, 1957, is a politician from Japan's Nakamichi Reform United Party. He was born in Funabashi City, Chiba Prefecture. He is currently a member of the House of Representatives (elected for 7 terms). He is the first co-representative, representative of the Standing Committee of the Democratic Party (9th generation), and representative of the Constitutional Democratic Party (3rd generation). He also served as Finance Minister (14th generation), Chairman of the Government Tax System Investigation Committee, and Chairman of the National Assembly Countermeasures Committee of the Democratic Party (7th and 10th generations). Noda entered politics in 1987 and became a member of the House of Representatives in 1993 (losing one term from 1996 to 2000). In 1998, he joined the newly established second-generation Democratic Party; later he served as the Japanese Representative from 2011 to 2012. The Prime Minister is the second youngest prime minister (54 years old) among Japan's post-war prime ministers, second only to Shinzo Abe (52 years old in 2006) when he became prime minister. He is the last prime minister and representative (party leader) of the Democratic Party before he stepped down from power in 2012. After the Democratic Party was reorganized into the Democratic Progressive Party, he became a powerful figure in the party and became the president and second secretary-general of the Hanaichi Association (Noda-gumi), a faction within the party. He joined the reorganized Constitutional Democratic Party in 2020 and was elected as a representative in 2024. Before the 2026 House of Representatives election, he led an alliance with the Komeito Party to form the Nakamichi Reform Alliance. He and Komeito representative Saito Tetsuo were transferred as co-representatives of the new party to compete with the Liberal Democratic Party's ruling alliance; however, the Nakamichi Reform Alliance failed miserably in the election, and both he and Saito resigned from their representative positions after the election.

Noda Seiko (Japanese: Noda Seiko/Noda Seiko, Romanized: Noda Seiko, September 3, 1960 -), formerly known as Shima (Shima). Japanese female politician, member of the Liberal Democratic Party. Born in Hachiman City, Fukuoka Prefecture (now Kitakyushu City). He has been elected to the House of Representatives for eight consecutive terms since 1997.

Kimberly Kay Reynolds (English: Kimberly Kay Reynolds; nee Strawn, English: Strawn; August 4, 1959 -), American politician, current governor of Iowa. As a member of the Republican Party, Reynolds served as the 46th Lieutenant Governor of Iowa from 2011 to 2017. Before being elected lieutenant governor, Reynolds served four terms as Clark County treasurer before serving as an Iowa state senator from 2009 to 2010. In May 2017, Governor Terry Branstad resigned and became the U.S. Ambassador to China, and Reynolds took office as governor. She won a full term as governor in the 2018 gubernatorial election and was re-elected in the 2022 gubernatorial election.

Kim Dae-jung (Korean: Kim Dae-jung/Kim Dae-jung, Romanized: Kim Dae-Jung (January 6, 1924 - August 18, 2009), also known as Houguang (halo), also known as Honeysuckle (honeysuckle), Bengwan Kimhae Kim, a South Korean politician and the 15th president of the Republic of Korea. He was imprisoned many times for democratic struggles during the dictatorial regimes of Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan. He was called the "Mandela of Asia" and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000. Kim Dae-jung was originally an entrepreneur. After the Korean War, he gave up business and entered politics and became the leader of the opposition democratic movement. During the military dictatorships of Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan, he escaped death five times, lived in prison for six years and spent ten years under house arrest and exile. He was repeatedly imprisoned, exiled, murdered in car accidents, and sentenced to death by the military and political authorities. In his more than 40 years of political campaigning and democratic struggle, he suffered repeated defeats and was finally elected as the fifteenth president of South Korea in 1997. On February 25, 1998, Kim Dae-jung was officially sworn in and assumed office at the Blue House, successfully achieving the first peaceful transition of power between the ruling and opposition parties in modern Korean history. During his administration, Kim Dae-jung worked hard to revive the South Korean economy that was hit by the Asian financial crisis, reformed South Korea's economic system, and enabled South Korea to successfully complete the privatization of enterprises and the transformation of industrial structure. On the issue of North Korea, he adopted the "sunshine policy" and successfully held the first North-South bilateral talks in 2000, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in the same year. In addition, he effectively maintained peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula by coordinating the development of relations with the United States, Japan, the People's Republic of China and Russia, and enhanced South Korea's international status and prestige. Kim Dae-jung was baptized as a Catholic by Archbishop Lu Keenan of the Catholic Archdiocese of Seoul in 1956, and his holy name was Thomas More. His surrogate father was Jang Myon, the vice president of South Korea at the time. Kim Dae-jung's motto is "Respect Heaven and Love People", which is also the philosophy he pursued throughout his life.

Jin Shaoxian (1912-March 19, 2003), formerly known as Jin Jialong, also known as Yunqu, was a native of Yangxin County, Hubei Province. Politician of the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China, member of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang. He passed the Higher Civil Service Examination in his early years and served successively as Section Chief of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission of the National Government, Acting Chairman of the Xinjiang Provincial Party Headquarters, President of Xinjiang Daily, Mayor of Dihua City, etc. In 1948, he was elected as the first legislator. In early 1949, he organized the "Sun Wenist Revolutionary Alliance" with Xu Wentian and others. In April of the same year, he was secretly arrested by secret agents in Nanjing. After his release, he moved to Hong Kong. In August, he participated in the 44-person electrified uprising led by Huang Shaohong and announced his separation from the Kuomintang regime. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as a judicial member of the Southwest Branch of the Supreme People's Court and a counselor of the Chongqing Municipal People's Government. He was classified as a rightist in 1957 and was corrected in 1979. In his later years, he served as director of the Counselor's Office of the Sichuan Provincial People's Government, a standing member of the Central Supervisory Committee of the Kuomintang Revolution, and a member of the Sixth and Seventh National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He is the author of "Jin Shaoxian's Collection of Literary, Historical and Political Commentaries - Strait Thoughts". Died in Chengdu in 2003.