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Jiaocheng is a city in Shanxi Province, China. Hua Guofeng was born in a village in Jiaocheng. He grew up in a poor family and worked in the fields as a child. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1938 and fought in the Chinese Civil War. He was a close ally of Mao Zedong and served as Premier of China from 1976 to 1981.