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Jiao Yulu
Jiao Yulu
焦裕禄
	Jiao Yulu
Communist Party Secretary of Lankao County
	In office; October 1962 – May 1964
Preceded by	Wang Jinbi
Succeeded by	Zhou Huamin
Communist Party Secretary of Weishi County
	In office; June 1962 – October 1962
Personal details
Born	16 August 1922; Yuanquan Town, Boshan District, Zibo, Shandong, China
Died	14 May 1964 (aged 41); Zhengzhou, Henan, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Spouse	Xu Junya
Children	6
Parent	Jiao Fangtian (father)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	焦裕祿
Simplified Chinese	焦裕禄
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Jiāo Yùlù

Jiao Yulu (Chinese: 焦裕禄; 16 August 1922 – 14 May 1964) was a Chinese politician. Jiao Yulu was considered to be an example of Mao Zedong's good student during the period of Mao's personality cult. After his death, a campaign to study Jiao Yulu's example was started in 1966. The aim of the campaign was to boost morale and to rally the people to work harder to overcome difficulties. Chinese Communist Party members in particular were called upon to follow Jiao Yulu's example by conducting more research and investigations into local conditions, and learn from his leadership style.^[1]

Life and career

Jiao Yulu was born in Yuanquan Town of Boshan District, in Zibo city, in Shandong province, to a poor family, on August 16, 1922, during the Republic of China.^[2] Both his father Jiao Fangtian (焦方田) and mother were farmers.^[2] He had only four years of schooling.^[2] His father hanged himself during the Second Sino-Japanese War.^[2] Jiao Yulu was conscripted into the Japanese labor and he was sent to coal-mining in Fushun, Liaoning, Manchoukuo.^[2] He escaped to Suqian, Jiangsu in the fall of 1943.^[2] He had been a farm labourer for two years for the landowner Hu Tairong (胡泰荣).^[2]

In 1945, after the defeat of the Japanese in the Second World War, he returned his hometown and joined a militia. He once took part in the battle of liberating Boshan District. Jiao Yulu joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in January 1946, and he soon was transferred to Bohai, Shandong and appointed a group leader of the Land Reform movement. By late Chinese Civil War, he worked in Weishi County, Henan province until 1951. In June 1953, he was transferred to Luoyang Mine Machine Manufacturing Plant and worked there until 1962.^{[citation needed]}

In June 1962, he was appointed CCP Committee Secretary of Weishi County. In December, he became the Second Communist Party Secretary of Lankao County. The county had long been plagued by dust storms, waterlogging, and alkaline lands.^[2] Jiao Yulu mobilized the local residents to contend with the poor natural conditions. Due to years of toil, Jiao Yulu broke down from constant overwork and he was diagnosed with liver cancer. But he continued his struggle against natural disasters. On May 14, 1964, he died of liver cancer, aged 42.^[2]