Zhuo Lin, wife of Deng Xiaoping, passes away

Deng Xiaoping's widow, Zhuo Lin, passed away from illness yesterday at 12:30pm in Beijing. According ot the General Office of the CPC Central Committee, Zhuo's medical treatment had failed. She was 93. Zhuo became a member of the Communist Party in 1938 and was married to Deng a year later in front of a cave dwelling in Yan'an. During the Cultural Revolution, she helped him survive a series of political purges, and at one point was sent to live in exile in Jiangxi Province. When she died, the CPC saluted her as a "time honored loyal Communist fighter." Source: Xinhua