1. Long Yun was governor and warlord of the Chinese province of Yunnan from 1927 to October 1945, when he was overthrown in a coup by Du Yuming under the order of Chiang Kai-shek.
22 Facts About Long Yun
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Long Yun was an ethnic Yi, and a grandson of a tribal headman.
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Long Yun's Yi name was Naji Niaoti or Naji Jiajia, while Long Yun was a Han Chinese name he adopted later.
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Long Yun participated in the anti-Qing struggle in its early years.
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Long Yun served in Tang Jiyao's Yunnan Army for years until February 1927, when he, together with Hu Ruoyu, launched a coup and expelled Tang from office.
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Long Yun carried out a series of reorganizations and reforms from political, military, economic, cultural and educational aspects.
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Long Yun consolidated and reorganized the economy, expanded paper money in the region and reorganized the tariff tax regulations.
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Long Yun prioritized textile export while reorganizing and developing production of tin ore, tungsten, antimonies, copper, salt, coal and other resources.
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Long Yun paid much attention to the agricultural parts of Yunnan.
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Long Yun implemented measuring of land and later used the information they achieved to put through a reformed tax collection.
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Long Yun worked to expand grain farming, reduce tax revenue and strived to achieve food self-sufficiency for all farmers.
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Long Yun was nominated as commander-in-chief of the 1st Army Group, fighting against the Japanese in his province.
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When Long Yun's turn came in 1945, he was caught by surprise: patriotically obeying Chiang's diversionary orders, a good part of his private army of over 100,000 men had marched far away, into Indochina.
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Long Yun had been offered a face-saving job in Chongqing earlier, but he had refused.
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Only a few companies of Long Yun's troops did any shooting; the warlord never had a chance.
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In September 1954, Long Yun was appointed as a Vice Chairman of the National Defense Council, which was chaired by Mao Zedong.
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Long Yun served alongside senior Communist Party leaders such as Zhu De, Lin Biao, Long Yun Long, Peng Dehuai, Chen Yi, Deng Xiaoping, and Ye Jianying.
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On June 27,1962, Long Yun passed away in Beijing due to acute myocardial infarction.
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Long Yun was buried in Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in grave number 81.
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Later, during the Anti-Rightist Movement, Long Yun was labeled a rightist because of his criticism of Chinese foreign aid policy.
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Long Yun maintained that if the living standard in the Soviet Union was so high that many ordinary workers could own their own car, the responsibility for foreign aid should fall on the Soviet Union, not China, since the Chinese economy was much less advanced than that of the Soviet Union since China was still recovering from wars.
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Long Yun refused to change his view and openly complained of his treatment for telling the truth.