Former NPC Vice Chairman Cheng Siyuan dies

Cheng Siyuan, former vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), died of illness in Beijing Thursday. He was 97.

An official obituary calls him a "noted patriotic figure of non-party affiliation, an outstanding statesman, and a close friend to the Communist Party of China."

Cheng served as a vice chairman of the Eighth and Ninth NPC Standing Committees and a vice chairman of the Seventh National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Source: Xinhua