1Lin Biao, Chinese Communist military leader and Marshal of the PRC, once designated as Mao's successor; died in 1971 in a plane crash in Mongolia while fleeing China after a failed coup plot
Marshal of the People's Liberation Army who led the Fourth Field Army in the civil war and spread the Little Red Book of Mao's quotations. Named Mao's successor in 1969, he died in a plane crash fleeing China in 1971, the 九一三事件.
Lín Biāo zài Liáoshěn Zhànyì zhōng fāhuī le zhòngyào zuòyòng.
Lin Biao played a key role in the Liaoshen Campaign.
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His plane came down in Mongolia near 温都尔汗 (Öndörkhaan), killing all nine aboard. The coup plan his son 林立果 drew up, by the official account, was code-named 五七一工程, because 571 (wǔ qī yī) sounds like 武起义 'armed uprising'.
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His 1966 praise of Mao, 句句是真理，一句顶一万句, 'every sentence is truth, one sentence outweighs ten thousand', became a Cultural Revolution slogan. 一句顶一万句 is also the title of a novel by 刘震云 that won the 2011 Mao Dun Prize.
