Collected works of late Chinese leader Chen Yun will be published in China to mark his 100th anniversary of birthday.

The collected works, edited by the Party Literature Research Center of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, contains three volumes with selected articles, speeches and remarks of Chen Yun during 1935 to 1986 totaling 1.35 million characters.

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.

Source: Xinhua