Song worked with several generations of leaders, starting as Zhou Enlai’s secretary and later talent-spotted future president Hu Jintao
1-MIN READ1-MIN ListenJosephine MaPublished: 6:56pm, 4 Mar 2026Updated: 6:58pm, 4 Mar 2026Song 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.
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