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Chinese vice president to attend Fidel Castro's memorial activities in Cuba

Xinhua, November 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao will attend memorial activities in Cuba for late Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castrol.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang told a routine press briefing here on Tuesday that Li will attend as President Xi Jinping's special envoy.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, paid a visit to the Cuban Embassy in Beijing on Tuesday morning to pay his respects to Castro.

Castro passed away on Nov. 25, aged 90. Endi