Zhou Enlai was loved by the Chinese people; he was revered as a gentle and noble father. The Chinese people had due cause to admire such a man, Zhou managed to bring China through a bleak period of their history; the revolution. He is responsible for achieving a stabilized economy and bringing China out from isolation to become a member of the International community. It is justifiable to say that China’s suffering would have been inestimably prolonged if it weren’t for Zhou Enlai, Prime minister and foreign minister of the Chinese Communist Party.
Zhou was born in 1898; he had an unhappy childhood which allowed him to acknowledge the hardships of life. Zhou began to become interested in Marxism and played an active role in student demonst
rations. In 1920 he went to France, where he was instrumental in establishing the international branch of the Chinese Communist Party Youth Group. He returned to China in 1924. He held many important military and political posts in the CCP, and was a crucial personality in rebuilding the battered CCP organization after the split with the Nationalist Party. Furthermore he helped organize many important demonstrations. When the People’s Republic of China was established in 1949, he became Prime minister and Foreign minister.
In 1955, during the Conference of the Non-aligned nations in Bandung, he announced his “Five principles of peaceful coexistence.” These principles established China’s credentials and earned the country much needed g
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