On November 10, 1980, the CCP Central Politburo held a meeting in Zhongnanhai, demanding that Party Chairman and Military Commission Chairman Hua Guofeng relinquish his power.
After reaching an agreement with Taiwan officials in the United States, Teresa Teng returned to Taipei and held a concert at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall a few days later, donating all ticket proceeds to the Self-Strengthening Patriotic Fund.
On September 10, 1980, the Third Session of the Fifth National People's Congress (August 30 to September 10) adopted a resolution accepting Hua Guofeng's resignation from the office of Premier of the State Council and decided that Zhao Ziyang would serve as Premier of the State Council.
Yang Jia was born in Beijing on August 27, 1980, and was the only son of his mother, Wang Jingmei. His parents divorced when he was a child, after which mother and son depended on each other.
After Tito's death, a rotating presidency of eight members was introduced; because no one dared to make a decision on the enormous foreign debt, it dragged on for eleven years before finally falling apart.
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was held in Beijing through February 29, restoring the Secretariat and electing Hu Yaobang as General Secretary; Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang were additionally elected to the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau, and Wang Dongxing and three others resigned.
The 5th Plenary Session of the 11th CCP Central Committee adopted the "Guiding Principles for Inner-Party Political Life," proposing to uphold collective leadership, oppose individual arbitrariness, and prohibit "one-voice" rule and individuals from placing themselves above the Party organization.
During the 1980s Latin American debt crisis, the region's real GDP growth rate was only 2.3%, per-capita GDP saw negative growth of nearly 9%, and inflation eroded the purchasing power of the middle class.
In 1980, the Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and Taiwan was terminated; since then, the United States has maintained its security commitment to Taiwan under the Taiwan Relations Act and the public pledges of successive presidents.
Stephen Chow entered the Hong Kong wireless television artist training class, and afterward for a long time played small roles such as passerby A, Song soldier B, and anonymous corpses on film sets.
After the Cultural Revolution, Chen Shunyao, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Tsinghua University, recommended Hu Jintao to her husband Song Ping, and Hu Jintao was promoted from an ordinary technician to secretary of the Communist Youth League Gansu Provincial Committee.
In 1980, Poland founded the independent trade union Solidarity during the communist era. The union later became the impetus for designing Polish society beyond the government in the post-communist period, enabling a relatively smooth transition after the fall of communism in Poland.