Zhong Taiyin was born in 1938 in Xiangyang Commune, Sichuan Province, and is the former head of his Xiangyang Commune. On June 18, 1980, the central government ordered Zhong to replace his village's "People's Commune" sign with a new plaque reading "The People's Government of Xiangyang village, Guanghan City." Xiangyang thus became the first commune disbanded as a China began a wave of widespread agricultural reform.

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