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Mao Anqing (; 23 November 1924 – 23 March 2007) was the last surviving son of Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. He was the second son of Mao and his wife, Yang Kaihui. He had a mental illness, possibly schizophrenia. He worked as a translator and never became active in politics.
Mao and his surviving elder brother were sent to Paris in 1936, and then moved to Moscow, where they remained until 1947. Mao Anqing and his brother participated in World War II for the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany.
Mao Anqing worked as a researcher at the Academy of Military Sciences and the Publicity Department of the CCP Central Committee, mainly translating books from Russian language to Chinese language as a Russian linguist. He also wrote various books on his father. He was never actively involved in politics.
When Mao Anqing died in 2007, he was the last of Mao Zedong's known surviving sons.
Personal life
He married Shao Hua in September 1960. She later became a major general in the People's Liberation Army, and a member of the committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Together, they had one child, Mao Xinyu, who was born in 1970 at 301 Hospital in Beijing. They are the only known remaining male line descendants of Mao Zedong. Shao Hua died on 24 June 2008, at the age of 69, at the People's Liberation Army Hospital in Beijing.
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