In 1976, there was a terrible earthquake in Tangshan, hundreds of thousands of lives were lost. <br /> <br />In the same year, the CCP's three big guns, Zhou En-lai, Zhu De, and Mao Ze Dong died one after another. <br /> <br />In Sept., soon after Mao died, Ye Jianying went against what Mao asked of him before his death and collaborated with Wang Dong-xing, and Hua Guofeng, and initiated coup d'état <br /> <br />Jiang Ze-min turned fifty, in that year. <br /> <br />Vice-CHairman of the CCP, Wang Hong-wen, member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo, Zhang Chunqiao, members of the Politburo of the CCP Central Committee, Jiang Qing, and Yao Wen Yuan, the so-called "Gang Of Four", were arrested. <br /> <br />Though Jiang Qing was Mao's widow, she was, even before Mao's corpus turned cold, made a political prisoner, along with nephew Mao Yuanxin. <br /> <br />The perpetrators did so under the auspices of following Mao's political lines. <br /> <br />It was illustrated of the saying, no CCP leader has a good ending. <br /> <br />Shanghai had been the Gang Of Four's home turf by that time. <br /> <br />In order to control Shanghai more effectively, a central working group was sent in. <br /> <br />Since Jiang Ze-min had worked in Shanghai before, he was temporarily made a member of the working group and accompanied the group to Shanghai. <br /> <br />When the working group entered Shanghai, the military force there, who numbered more than 30 thousand, were ordered to ride in a few hundred vehicles and marched throughout the city. <br /> <br />They shouted in unison: "Overthrow the Gang Of Four!" <br /> <br />Driven by college students, the long-oppressed Shanghai people took to the streets and cheered the overthrow of the Gang of Four. <br /> <br />Jiang Ze-min was overwhelmed by the welcome that the central working group received from the people of Shanghai. <br /> <br />Before long, the working group was no longer needed. <br /> <br />Jiang Ze-min reluctantly returned to Beijing and resumed his office as director of the Foreign Affairs Bureau in the First Ministry of Machinery Industry. <br /> <br />He had got something of a high, from the experience in the working group of the Central Committee, the sense of power, he felt like a regal delegate, and the satisfaction, of having everyone asked for his approval. <br /> <br />Jiang Ze-min was determined to continue to rise through the ranks. <br /> <br />Jiang Ze-min didn't place his bet right every time though. <br /> <br />In 1978 Jiang Ze-min hedged a wrong bet. <br /> <br />He didn't expect Deng Xiao-ping to return to power, because he had made speeches, that strongly criticized Deng Xiao-ping, during the Criticize Deng, and Fight the Rightists' Reversal Attempts Movement in 1975. <br /> <br />He almost was categorized as one of the three kinds of people, a stinging label, that would spell political downfall. <br /> <br />His political career met with obstacles. <br /> <br />In 1979, the central leadership formed a state administration, on import and export affairs, and a state administration, on foreign investments, both chaired by Gu Mu. <br /> <br />Wang Daohan was one of the vice chairmen. <br /> <br />In 1980, Wang Daohan was appointed Mayor of Shanghai. <br /> <br />He strongly...
