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- Song Ping, a Chinese Communist Party elder and the longest-serving member of the Politburo Standing Committee, died on March 4 in Beijing from illness at age 109.
- Born in 1917, he helped shape the party's second generation.
- He supported Deng Xiaoping's reforms after Mao Zedong's rule.
- From 1989 to 1992, he served on the Politburo Standing Committee and as personal secretary to Zhou Enlai.
