Important Individuals
| Deng Xiaoping | the CCP leading figure. |
| Kang Guohua | an educated youth, who joined the People’s Army of the CPB. |
| Liu Shaoqi | the State Chairman before the Cultural Revolution. |
| Mao Zedong | the Party Chairman of the Communist Party of China. |
| Ouyang Liang | an educated youth from Shanghai, the leader of the Back to the City Movement in Xinjiang Province. |
| Ruo Sai | a Tibetan and the Director of Criminal Investigation of the Public Security Department of Qinghai Province, sent to investigate the incident of the uprising by the educated youths. |
| Su Dekuan | an educated youth from Shandong, the leader of the Back to the City Movement in Qinghai Province. |
| Wang Xi | an educated youth from Kunming, who joined the People’s Army of the CPB. |
| Wang Zhen | the vice premier, a member of the Politburo. |
| Wu Dasheng | a senior colonel in the Nanjing Military Region, the first Party secretary, and the director of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee of Jiangsu Province after General Xu left. |
| Xu Shiyou | a full general, the commander-in-chief of the Nanjing Military Region Command, the first Party secretary, and director of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee of Jiangsu Province before being transferred to Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. |
| Zhang Yan | Deputy Director of the State Planning Commission. |
| Zhao Fan | the head of the investigation group sent to Yunnan Province, who pleaded to the Central Committee on behalf of the educated youths for their return to the city, who was highly respected by the educated youths for his daring deeds. |
| Zhou Enlai | the then Premier. |