COLLECTION · Series · 1992

周恩来（电视剪辑版）

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The ultra-leftist movement unleashed across the country by the Red Guards filled Zhou Enlai (played by Wang Tiecheng), then Premier of the State Council, with deep anxiety. Amid the national crisis, Zhou Enlai stepped forward to protect veteran comrades and old battle companions such as He Long and Chen Yi. To safeguard national development, he pushed hard for the restoration of production at Anshan Iron and Steel. After the 1966 Xingtai earthquake, he rushed to the front lines to oversee reconstruction. In the 1970s, as China and the United States began contacts at multiple levels, Zhou Enlai met with Kissinger and, when receiving the American table tennis delegation, joked about hippies, helping to promote the normal development of relations between the two countries. In 1971, Zhou Enlai focused his efforts on smashing the Lin Biao clique's conspiracy to subvert the state. Prolonged intense work left Zhou Enlai's health deteriorating day by day, and cancer cells were found in his body. Despite his illness, he returned to the old revolutionary base area of Yan'an for a visit; the impoverished lives of the local people weighed on him unbearably, and he assigned experts from Beijing to help Yan'an escape poverty. As the activities of the Gang of Four grew increasingly rampant, Zhou Enlai strongly supported Deng Xiaoping and Ye Jianying in returning to important posts and continued to contend and struggle with the Gang of Four...