SHOTLIST 1. Wide tilt down of Beijing hospital 2. Cutaway sign 3. Long shot of man carrying wreath of flowers in hospital compound 4. Mid shot of web page of China People's Daily news 5. Close up on news report on Zhao's death 6. Wide shot of street entrance to area where Zhao's home is located 7. Various of security 8. Phone interview with Ren Wanding; UPSOUND (Mandarin) Ren Wanding, Chinese dissident: "The reform within the Communist Party pushed forward by Mr Zhao was not democratic politics or freedom in the modern sense, but his reforms did provide a bridge and a platform for the transformation toward the current political reform. So in this regard, we will miss and commemorate Zhao Ziyang. And his passing is very significant." 9. Wide shot of man looking at newspapers on board 10. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Vox Pop, Mr Wang, 48 year-old Beijing resident: "He left us with a lot of achievements in reform and opening up to the outside world to which he had made a great contribution. He should be thanked for our current development." 11. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Vox Pop, Mr Feng, 53 year-old retiree: "I am shocked about his death. In my heart, he was a good leader. The former premiers like Zhao Ziyang and Zhu Rongji have done a lot of work for our country and people." 12. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Vox Pop, Mr An, 60 year-old retiree: "I think it was really unfair for Zhao Ziyang to be ousted. He should not have been removed because of (the incident with) the students' movement." 13. Set up shot of Dai Qing 14. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Dai Qing, Freelance journalist and political commentator: "When Zhao Ziyang was removed from the state reform process that meant the end of healthy and hopeful reform in China. Jiang Zemin also called himself a reformer, however on the one hand he covered the mouth of the media while on the other hand they used their power to transfer all public property into their own private assets. So they want to turn China into a military dictatorship where market rules benefit only their own interests, controlled by the new noble class in China. That was the end of China's reform process." 15. Various of Tiananmen Square with security 16. Mid shot of people walking in front of Mao portrait 17. Wide shot of People's armed police walking in for their shift 18. Close up on Monument of People's Hero, with flag 19. Police truck on the square 20. Group of police armed walking on patrol 21. Wide shot of people walking on Tiananmen Square STORYLINE Zhao Ziyang, the former Chinese Communist Party leader who oversaw landmark economic reforms but was ousted after the 1989 Tiananmen Square prodemocracy protests, died Monday at a Beijing hospital. Zhao, 85, who was hospitalised with a lung ailment, died at 0701 (2301 GMT), according to Frank Lu, a prominent human rights activist, citing Zhao's family. Hours after Zhao's death, China's entirely state-owned media ran brief reports marking the former leader's passing. There has been little official comment or reports on Zhao, who had lived under house arrest for 15 years. Zhao, a former premier and dapper, articulate protege of the late supreme leader Deng Xiaoping, helped to forge bold economic reforms in the 1980s that brought China new prosperity and flung open its doors to the outside world. In the end, he fell out of favour with Deng and was purged on June 24, 1989, after the military crushed the student-led prodemocracy protests. He was accused of "splitting the party" by supporting demonstrators who wanted a faster pace of democratic reform. Zhao has lived under house arrest since then. Political commentator Dai Qing said that the purge of Zhao "meant the end of healthy and hopeful reform in China." You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/9bd90afb8637a443b2d870a6965cdd7e Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
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