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Former senior Chinese leader dies

Updated: 2015-02-11 07:01
(Xinhua)

BEIJING - Former senior Chinese leader Deng Liqun passed away in Beijing at 4:56 pm 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.

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