An exhibition on late Chinese leader Chen Yun was opened Friday in Beijing at the National Library to mark his 100th birthday.

Chen, a native of Shanghai, was commended as a great proletarian revolutionary and statesman, an outstanding Marxist and one of the pioneers and founders of China's Socialist economic construction.

After leaving the leading post of the Communist Party of China Central Committee at the 13th CPC National Congress in 1987, Chen took the post of chairman of the CPC Central Advisory Commission.

He passed away in 1995 in Beijing, at the age of 90.

More than 500 attended the opening ceremony of the exhibition, which is jointly sponsored by the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee and several Party and governmental departments.

Source: Xinhua