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834:Fu Chuanzuo
829:Wang Huiqiu
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764:Liu Shunyao
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164:August 1929
134:Wang Yuhuai
129:Preceded by
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199:Alma mater
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567:21 August
553:"曹双明同志逝世"
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385:in 1956.
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