Bao Tong

Bao Tong
Bao at his Beijing home in 2008
Born	(1932-11-05)5 November 1932 Haining, Republic of China
Died	9 November 2022(2022-11-09) (aged 90) Beijing, People's Republic of China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party (1949–1992, expelled)
Spouse	Jiang Zongcao ​ (died 2022)​ [1]
Children	Bao Pu (son) Bao Jian (daughter)
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	鲍彤
Traditional Chinese	鮑彤
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Bào Tóng

Bao Tong (Chinese: 鲍彤; 5 November 1932 – 9 November 2022) was a Chinese writer and activist. He was Director of the Office of Political Reform of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Policy Secretary of Zhao Ziyang (Chinese Premier from 1980 to 1987 and CCP General Secretary from 1987 to 1989). He was also Director of the Drafting Committee for the CCP 13th Party Congresses, known for its strong support of market reform and opening up under Deng Xiaoping. Prior to this, he was a committee member and then deputy director of the Chinese State Commission for Economic Reform. During the 1989 Tian’anmen square protests, he was one of the very few Chinese senior officials to express understandings with the demonstrating students,^[2] which led to his arrest shortly before the June Fourth incident.