Chinese Communist Party elder Song Ping dies aged 109 - Reuters
Chinese Communist Party elder Song Ping dies aged 109 Reuters
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Reform-minded leader who remade China after Mao Zedong's rule.
Former leader of China before Xi Jinping.
Song Ping was a prominent elder of the Chinese Communist Party.
Xi Jinping is the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President of China.
First Premier of communist China, serving from 1949 until his death in 1976.
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Song Ping, a former senior official of the Communist Party of China and the state, passed away due to illness on Wednesday in Beijing, at the age of 109.
Song Ping, a former senior official of the Communist Party of China and the state, passed away due to illness on Wednesday in Beijing, at the age of 109.
Chinese Communist Party elder and the longest-lived member of the elite Politburo Standing Committee, Song Ping, died on Wednesday at the age of 109, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Song Ping, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) oldest retired official, died on March 4, according to Chinese state media. He was 109.
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