Liang's spring-1985 letter to Hu Qili and Hao Jianxiu, after Hu Yaobang's channel stalled, is what Sixth Tone credits with the Yicheng pilot finally happening

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Liang Zhongtang's 1984 report renewing his two-child proposal to Hu Yaobang stalled for months despite Hu's reported interest (see claim-liang-1984-report-to-hu-yaobang-stalled-two-child-proposal, which quotes the same article only as far as "months passed and no action was taken"). Reading past that point in the same Sixth Tone profile, the narrative continues: "In the spring of 1985, Liang wrote a letter to Hu Qili and Hao Jianxiu, staff members of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee. Finally, someone seemed willing to pay attention, and the experiment in Yicheng County came to fruition later that year." This is the same article, same paragraph-pair, same witness (Liang, via journalist Li Xueqing) as the Hu Yaobang stall — not a separate fact sitting nearby, but the article's own explanation for why the stall ended when it did: a second escalation, to two different Secretariat staff members, is what the narrative credits with the Yicheng pilot beginning later that year.

Hu Qili and Hao Jianxiu are both named in this vault, in this specific role, for the first time. Hu Qili also appears, in an unrelated 1977–1980 context, in claim-greenhalgh-2008-book-table-1-names-liang-zhongtang-as-key-actor. Hao Jianxiu has no other presence in the vault. This remains a single-witness account — Liang's own retelling, thirty-two years after the events, with no independent documentation anywhere in this vault of Hu Yaobang's, Hu Qili's, or Hao Jianxiu's own side of either exchange — but it is uncontested elsewhere, which is what clears the Tier 3-4 floor for an uncontested historical claim.