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When did Liu Shaoqi become chairman of the People’s Republic of China?
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Liu Shaoqi assumed the position of chairman of the People’s Republic of China in April 1959. He succeeded Mao Zedong, who relinquished the role of head of state following the failures of the Great Leap Forward, though Mao remained the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party.1