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Hu K’o-shih
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Hu K’o-shih, whose antecedents are unknown, rose from a position of obscure youth leader in 1949 to be the second-ranking man in this work by the mid-1960’s. The organization in which he has been mainly active is the Communist Youth League, known prior to 1957 as the New Democratic Youth League (NDYL).
Education
He was educated locally.
Career
Hu had also been active in both Party and governmental work activities in central-south China. In the Party Central-South China Bureau, he was by early 1950 deputy secretary (under Secretary Chao I-min) of the Youth Work Committee, and in the governmental Central-South Military and Administrative Committee he was a member of both the People’s Supervision Committee (from March 1950) and the Political and Legal Affairs Committee (from December 1951). He was officially removed from both positions in May 1953, not too long after his transfer to Peking.
Hu played a far more significant role at the Second Youth League Congress of June-July 1953 than he had at the 1949 meeting. He served on the Congress presidium (steering committee), was elected to the Central Committee and, immediately after the Congress, was named to the Standing Committee and reappointed to the Secretariat. He was re-elected to identical posts at the Third Congress in May 1957 and the Fourth Congress in June 1964. Between the Third and Fourth congresses, other senior Youth League leaders were transferred elsewhere, and thus by mid-1964 Hu was subordinate only to Hu Yao-pang in the League. This became apparent at the June 1964 congress when Hu spoke on revisions to the League’s constitution, the second most important speech after the keynote address by First Secretary Hu Yao-pang.
Aside from participation in the youth congresses, Hu has been involved in a wide variety of other activities related to youth work. Some of the more significant include: member of the Board of Directors of the China Youth Publishing House, established in April 1953, to which he may still belong; speaker at a national conference of “young activists in building socialism, September 1955, and member of the presidium for a similar conference in November-December 1958; member of the preparatory committee for celebrating the 40th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement, April 1959, representative of the Youth League, signing a joint communiqué with a visiting Japanese Democratic Youth League delegation, October 1960. Moreover, Hu led six youth delegations to bloc nations between 1954 and 1961. These delegations went to: North Korea, July 1954; USSR, April-May 1955, February-March 1957, and April 1958; East Germany, May 1959; North Vietnam, March-April 1961. Probably the most important of these was the April 1958 trip to Moscow when he led the Chinese delegation to the 13th Congress of the All-Union Young Communist League.
In January 1953 he was named a deputy secretary-general of the Committee for the Implementation of the Marriage Law, and from 1954 to 1959 represented Hupeh on the First NPC. Representing youth circles, Hu replaced Feng Wen-pin as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Committee in Defense of Children in about 1956, and in July 1958 became a National Committee member of the China Peace Committee (CPC), he continues to hold the former post but was dropped from the CPC in June 1965. From 1959 to 1964 he was a member of the 1-rd CPPCC as a representative of “organizations for peaceful and friendly relations with foreign countries,” but under the Fourth CPPCC Hu represented the Communist Youth League. When the Fourth CPPCC held its first session in December 1964-January 1965, Hu was named to the governing body, the Standing Committee. In the interim, when the Spare-time Education Committee was established under the State Council in January 1960, Hu was named as a member.
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As a senior youth leader, he has authored a number of articles, including:
“To Nurture New People for Socialism,” People’s China, December 1, 1953 (based on a speech at the Second National Conference on Young Pioneers’ Work held in November 1953)
“Dedicate Youth to Socialism,” JMJP, September 13, 1955.
“A Discussion with Young Friends about the Questions of Mastering Science,” Chung-kuo ch’ing-nien pao (China youth daily), June 1, 1956.
“New Men of Communism Are Growing, JMJP. November 21, 1958.
“Current Propaganda Work of the Communist Youth League,” Chung-kuo ch’ing-nien (China youth), February 16, 1959.
"The New Stage in the Communist Education of Chinese Youth,” ibid., June 1, 1960.
“The New High Tide of Mass Study of Theory,” Hung-ch’i, June 1, I960 (translated in JPRS3814).
“Problems of Fostering Communist Morals in Youth,” Chung-kuo ch’ing-nien pao, March 17, 1962 (translated in SCMP 2712).
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Political Party
Chinese Communist Party