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Yu Huiyong
Yu Huiyong () (1925–1977) was a Chinese artist and politician of the Communist Party of China and the People's Republic of China. He is known for the art he made of Mao Zhedong, the then-leader of China.
Biography.
Yu Huiyong was born in Shandong Province in 1925. He was greatly interested in music and learned to play a variety of instruments such as the erhu, the sanxian, and the dizi. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, he joined a
of the preparatory committee for the Shanghai Cultural Revolutionary Committee, and put in charge of the Shanghai Peking Opera Theatre. He worked directly under Zhang Chunqiao, one of the Gang of Four.
Taking an ever more prominent role, in 1968 Yu Huiyong chaired the criticism meeting against He Luting, president of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In 1969 he participated to the CPC 9th National Congress and was appointed standing committee member of the Shanghai Municipal Revolutionary Committee.
In 1970 Yu Huiyong was transferred to Beijing to become a member