Wang Dongxing, who served as the chief bodyguard for Mao Zedong, the founding leader of modern China, died on Friday, the official Xinhua news agency reported. He was 99.
Calling him a "tried and tested loyal Communist fighter and proletarian revolutionary,"
Xinhua said Wang died early on Friday morning of illness, citing the
General Office of the ruling Communist Party's Central Committee.
Born
in January 1916, Wang was also one of the key figures behind a 1976
coup that ousted the Gang of Four, led by Mao's widow Jiang Qing, at the
end of the disastrous Cultural Revolution.
He
also held the post of vice chairman of the Communist Party, and was
among the last of the leaders still living from the Cultural Revolution
era.
Mao, who died in 1976, remains a divisive figure within the country.
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