Gu Mu

Gu Mu
谷牧
Gu Mu in 1940
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China
In office 1975–1982
Premier	Zhou Enlai Hua Guofeng Zhao Ziyang
Personal details
Born	September 1914 Rongcheng, Shandong
Died	November 6, 2009 (aged 95) Beijing
Political party	Communist Party of China
Children	4 sons, 1 daughter

Gu Mu (Chinese: 谷牧; Wade–Giles: Ku Mu; September 1914 – November 6, 2009) was a Chinese revolutionary figure and politician, who served as the Vice-Premier of the People's Republic of China between 1975 and 1982. As one of Deng Xiaoping's main aides in charge of economic management, he played a major role in implementing Deng's economic reform policies of the 1980s. He was a key figure in the creation of Shenzhen, China's first Special Economic Zone.

Gu Mu was born in September 1914 in a village in Rongcheng, Shandong. His birth name was Liu Jiayu (Chinese: 刘家语). Although his parents were poor peasants, he received a good education at the insistence of his grandfather.

He joined the Communist Party in July 1932 and became involved in revolutionary activities in Wendeng County, where he was attending school. He changed his name to "Gu Mu" to avoid implicating his family. In 1934, Gu went to Beijing (then known as Beiping) and became a leader of the Beiping branch of the League of Left-Wing Writers.

In 1936, Gu Mu worked in military logistics under the warlord Zhang Xueliang, and participated in the Xi'an Incident. In September 1940, Gu went back to Shandong to take on a series of progressively senior leadership positions, including Deputy Political Commissar of the First Military Region.

After the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, Gu became the Party Secretary and Mayor of Jinan, the capital of Shandong, as well as Political Commissar of the Jinan Military Region. In February 1952 he was named Deputy Party Secretary and propaganda chief of Shanghai.

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