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Why did Liu Shaoqi serve as acting chairman while Mao Zedong met Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing?
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During the closing days of World War II, Mao Zedong traveled to Chongqing to engage in peace negotiations with Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek.1
Liu Shaoqi served as acting chairman during Mao's absence because he held a position of significant authority within the Chinese Communist Party hierarchy. By 1943, Liu had been named secretary of the Central Secretariat and vice-chairman of the People’s Revolutionary Military Council, and by 1945, he was clearly established as the spokesman for party affairs.1