Chinese Communist Party officials ordered Zhao Ziyang’s family to move out of his former residence, and his daughter Wang Yannan will not leave the residence before the centennial party celebration

Zhao Ziyang’s former residence holds many relics.

Gao Yu wrote on Twitter, “Zhang Lina and I went to pay our respects to Mr. Ziyang on his death anniversary for the last time on Jan. 17, 2018. From the following year, we couldn’t leave the house on the anniversary, Qingming, birth and burial days. Today’s Qingming, the various rooms used by the Ziyang family for 32 years are being boxed and packed, is this the last Qingming of this compound?”

Gao Yu mentioned in an interview with RTHK that every time Zhao Ziyang’s death anniversary, birthday and ashes burial day and other sensitive days, the authorities to close the cemetery, “but also to deal with the former residence of this forbidden place. The government has been working on a number of projects, including the development of a new project for a new home.

The former residence of Zhao Ziyang has many of Zhao Ziyang’s relics, as seen in Gao Yu’s Twitter feed, the former residence has several frames of Zhao Ziyang’s photos with people, cardboard boxes with many documents and books, there is a 2019 Zhao Ziyang centennial birthday elegiac couplet of the next couplet: for the sake of the people’s lives, vomiting their hearts and blood, why hesitate to wear a plume of flowers”. The upper couplet “”Dare the world first to revolutionize the old and tripartite new is not sad white head in the city”” is missing. In the picture, we also see the couplet “Support your decision is our unchanging choice” and “To be your son or daughter is our lifelong honor. The General Office of the CPC Central Committee only verbally notified Zhao’s family in 2020 that they were to move out by the deadline, but no official documents were produced.

Zhao Ziyang’s former residence is a courtyard, currently occupied by Zhao’s daughter Wang Yannan’s family, and the relocation is being handled by Wang Yannan, who is expected to assign the family to another location, which is currently unknown.

Wang Yanjun, former deputy editor-in-chief of Yanhuang Chunqiu magazine, said in an interview with RTHK that the Zhao family would not move out on July 1 this year, before the Communist Party’s centennial celebration. Wang Yanjun responded that Wang Yannan and her husband Wang Zhihua have been living in Zhao Ziyang’s former residence, while other family members of Zhao Ziyang do not live in Beijing. Zhao’s former residence belongs to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China property, can not be resold, the deceased leader may not be able to inherit.

On Qingming Day, Zhao Ziyang’s son Zhao Erjun, daughter Wang Yannan and other family members and friends paid their respects at the “Tianshouyuan” cemetery in Beijing’s Changping District in the morning. 20 family members and friends brought flowers and paid their respects under the watchful eye of Communist Party officials, and the family members stayed for more than 20 minutes before leaving. The floral plaque reads “We will always miss Ziyang” and was also presented by Bao Tong, Zhao Ziyang’s political secretary. The cemetery is guarded and no one else is allowed to enter.

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