China’s leaders mourn the death of 109-year-old Communist Party elder

Song, as an economic planner and the party’s personnel chief, was a prominent member of China’s second generation of leadership, an era when reform-minded Deng Xiaoping remade China after the 27-year rule of Mao Zedong ended in 1976 with Mao’s death.

China’s leaders mourn the death of 109-year-old Communist Party elder
Song, as an economic planner and the party’s personnel chief, was a prominent member of China’s second generation of leadership, an era when reform-minded Deng Xiaoping remade China after the 27-year rule of Mao Zedong ended in 1976 with Mao’s death.