Famous People with Name Ziyang

Zhao Ziyang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Zhao Ziyang: was a politician in the People's Republic of China. He was Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1980 to 1987, and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1987 to 1989. As a high-ranking government official, he was a leading reformer who implemented market reforms that greatly increased production and sought measures to streamline the bloated bureaucracy and fight corruption. Once slated as Deng Xiaoping's successor, Zhao Ziyang was purged for his sympathetic stance toward the student demonstrators in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and spent the last fifteen years of his life under house arrest.

Paul Lin Ziyang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Paul Lin Ziyang: is a writer, composer and head of a political discussion online forum in Hong Kong. He currently host a programme, "Headline" (????) of Radio Television Hong Kong. He is also a Christian and belongs to the Christian and Missionary Alliance. He was educated in St. Paul's College and graduated from Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 1990s, he composed more than 60 songs for the TV programmes of TVB and for singers such as Sammi Cheng. Since 2000s, he started to compose songs that satire on politics. Besides, he is currently a piano teacher and a columnist of Apple Daily. He also wrote a book called "If One Country no Two System then there is no Hong Kong ???????????" in 2004. He helped a Christian organization to record the songs in the Sharing Hymns(????) in 2005.

Ilya Dmitriyevich Ziyangirov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Ilya Dmitriyevich Ziyangirov: is a Russian professional football player. As of September 2009, he plays in the Russian Second Division for FC Dynamo Barnaul.