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| rdfs:comment | - Du Changhao (Zhuyin: ㄉㄨ ㄔㄤㄏㄠ; pinyin: Du Chánghào: born 22nd February 1945, aged 71) is a Manchurian retired politician and former chemical engineer who served as the Premier of Manchuria from 1990 to 2002. Du also served as the leader of the Popular Front for Democracy and Revolution from its founding in 1989 to 1995, the Minzhudang Chairman from 1990 to 2000 and as the Communist Party secretary for the city of Dalian from 1983 to 1989. He was also the founder of the New Progressive Party and its leader from 2008-13. Styled as the "East Asian Yeltsin" Du is widely recognised as having played a key role in the end of communism in Manchuria and subsequent democratisation.
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- Chairman of the Minzhudang
- Leader of the New Progressive Party
- Party Secretary for
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- Manzuxiehui
- Socialist Party of Manchuria
- Communist Party of Manchuria
- Minzhudang
- Popular Front for Democracy and Revolution
- Progressive Millennium Party
- Qinglonghui
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| abstract | - Du Changhao (Zhuyin: ㄉㄨ ㄔㄤㄏㄠ; pinyin: Du Chánghào: born 22nd February 1945, aged 71) is a Manchurian retired politician and former chemical engineer who served as the Premier of Manchuria from 1990 to 2002. Du also served as the leader of the Popular Front for Democracy and Revolution from its founding in 1989 to 1995, the Minzhudang Chairman from 1990 to 2000 and as the Communist Party secretary for the city of Dalian from 1983 to 1989. He was also the founder of the New Progressive Party and its leader from 2008-13. Styled as the "East Asian Yeltsin" Du is widely recognised as having played a key role in the end of communism in Manchuria and subsequent democratisation. Born in Harbin in 1945, Du joined the Communist Party of Manchuria in the 1970's where he quickly became aligned to the reformist faction of the party, becoming a close associate of rising star Tao Shiyou. In 1981 he was elected as a member of the Central Committee and in 1983 the Party Secretary for the Dalian region. As the Party Secretary for Dalian he oversaw some market reforms in the city, and soon became the most radical in his implementation of Tao's "New Communism". Following Tao's ousting in 1986 Du asserted himself as the leading voice for reform within the party, retaining his role in the Central Committee and party secretary in Dalian. At the outbreak of the Orchid Revolution in Dalian Du publicly voiced support for the protesters, becoming one of the leading figures calling for the implementation of democracy. He resigned from the Communist Party and formed the Popular Front for Democracy and Revolution, an umbrella group of dissidents who opposed the Manchu communist government. Following the announcement of multiparty elections the Popular Front was reformed as a electoral coalition that won the legislative elections. Du was the Popular Front's candidate for premier, with Du being elected Premier over Communist candidate Yuan Xiang. Du governed Manchuria alongside a legislature that consisted of a coalition of parties across the political spectrum (such as his own Minzhudang, the Manzuxiehui and United People's Party) which pushed forward a moderate agenda known as the Auspicious Path to Progress that saw the economic deregulation, privatisation of state owned enterprises, the dismantlement of the secrete police and moves to create a welfare state. Du however clashed with several right wing politicians within the legislature, mainly over Du's oppositions to greater privatisations and deregulation into public and private sectors respectively. Du spearheaded policies that saw freedom of the press and protest fully adhered to in Manchuria. Du was re-elected in 1996 where he continued to implement his economic reforms in the face of a deep recession. In 1996 after the Zuigaohuiyi blocked a proposed budget Du declared a state of emergency due to the recession creating the Supreme Revolutionary Committee which saw the Zuigaohuiyi was temporarily suspended and civil liberties curtailed. In 2000 the Zuigaohuiyi's suspension ended and in 2002 Du stepped down as Premier. Following his time as Premier Du was elected into the Supreme National Assembly, where he retained an ambivalent relationship with the administration of the new Premier Jin Pai Nai. Following the collapse of the Minzhudang in 2007 and the subsequent 2008 elections he alongside Raoguo Jixu formed the New Progressive Party as well as work with various organisations such as Human Rights Watch. In early 2013 he resigned as NPP chairman to let colleague Raoguo Jixu run for the office of Premier in the 2014 election. He remains a voting member on the NPP's National Committee. Du's tenure as Premier was controversial, due to his rocky relationship with the legislature (especially during the 1000 Days Reform), authoritarianism and accusations of corruption. Some have stated that under his administration Manchuria had an appearance of democracy but was in fact dictatorial and centralised. Nevertheless, Du is widely recognised and praised for his role in ending the communist regime in Manchuria. In 2015 he published his autobiography Central Planning to Free Markets - A Different Revolutionary.
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