CHINA'S FORMER VICE PREMIER LIU YANDONG HAS DIED, XINHUA SAYS
NEWS Desk Global
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Liu Yandong, China's former vice premier and a former member of the elite Politburo, died in Beijing on Wednesday, state-run Xinhua news agency said.
Liu, who was 80 when she died, was widely regarded as the most prominent and highest-ranking female official in China during much of her tenure in the country's male-dominated political leadership. She was one of only a handful of women ever to serve as a full member of the Politburo since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949. The current 21 members of the Politburo are all men.
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