Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969), a native of Ningxiang, Hunan Province, was then Vice-Chairman of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the People's Republic of China. When the "cultural revolution" started in 1966, he was wrongly criticized and accused by the counter-revolutionary cliques of Lin Biao and Jiang Qing of being a "capitalist roader" and a renegade. He suffered physical persecution at their hands and died of illness in 1969. In 1980 the Central Committee adopted a resolution clearing his name.