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Breaking | Song Ping, veteran Chinese Communist, dies aged 108 after career that spanned decades

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2026年3月4日
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Song Ping, a veteran Chinese revolutionary who lived through five generations of Communist Party leaders, has died at the age of 108.

He died at 3.36pm in Beijing on Wednesday, state news agency Xinhua reported.

Song’s career began in the 1930s before the founding of the People’s Republic including a spell as political secretary to the future premier Zhou Enlai.

Song held many important positions during the following decades and his career peaked when he became a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the top decision-making body, in 1989. He retired in 1992 at the age of 75.

Born in April 1917 in Ju county, Shandong province, Song joined the Communist Party at the age of 19 in 1937.

He was a graduate of the National Southwestern Associated University, a wartime university formed by merging students from various institutions. In 1938, he arrived at Yanan, where the party had set up its base after the Long March, and became acquainted with party heavyweight Chen Yun, who later became his political mentor.

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