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Former senior Chinese leader dies

Xinhua, February 11, 2015 Adjust font size:

Former senior Chinese leader Deng Liqun passed away in Beijing at 4:56 p.m. on Tuesday, according to a statement from the central authorities of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

Deng, 100, was praised in the statement as an excellent Party member, a time-tested and loyal communist soldier, a proletarian revolutionist, an outstanding leader in the Party's ideological and theoretical publicity work, and a Marxist theorist. Endi