Hu Yao·bang 
(h youbäng) also Hu Yao-pang (-päng) 1915-1989.
(h youbäng) also Hu Yao-pang (-päng) 1915-1989. Chinese politician who served as general secretary of the Communist Party from 1980 until he was forced to resign in 1987. His death sparked the Tiananmen Square protests (1989).