Chuan Lai, Mao’s close counselor, one of China’s Communist Party founders and People’s Republic of China’s Prime Minister, died on January 8, 1976, at 78.
He is considered as one of the founders of the non-aligned movement. Fromthe establishment of the People’s Republic of China up to his death, Chuan Lai was China’s premier and had an effective role in organizing China’s new structure.
He was born in 1898 and studied in France and Japan. He was alongside Mao in the Long March (1934-35).