According to the Fujian Daily, published on December 8, a member of the Communist Party of China, former director of the Education, Science, Culture and Health Committee of the Standing Committee of the Fujian Provincial People's Congress (the wife of Comrade Xiang Nan, former secretary of the Fujian Provincial CPC Committee), and retired cadre Wang Zhixin, died at the age of 100 at his home in Beijing in the early morning of December 3, 2015.
Comrade Wang Zhixin worked in Fujian in the early stage of reform and opening up, and made contributions to the reform and development of Fujian's education, science, culture, and public health undertakings.
You Quan, secretary of the Fujian Provincial CPC Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Fujian Provincial People's Congress, Yu Weiguo, deputy secretary of the provincial party committee and acting governor, and the provincial party committee, the standing committee of the provincial people's congress, the provincial government, and the provincial CPPCC committee laid wreaths. Appointed by the provincial party committee, Chen Dong, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial CPC Committee and secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee, made a special trip to comrade Wang Zhixin's home to offer condolences and attend the farewell ceremony held at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing.
According to public resumes, Xiang Nan (1918-1997), formerly known as Xiang Daocheng, a native of Liancheng County, Fujian Province, was born in a peasant family in November 1918, and in his early years he accompanied his father Xiang Younian to engage in the work of opening up revolutionary base areas in the Gansu Border Region of Fujian and Zhejiang, and joined the Communist Party of China in 1938. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Xiang Nan arrived at the headquarters of the New Fourth Army in Yancheng in the spring of 1941 in order to resist Japan and save the country.
After the founding of New China, Xiang Nan successively served as secretary of the Anhui Provincial Youth League, secretary of the East China Bureau Youth League, secretary of the League Central Committee, first secretary of the Fujian Provincial CPC Committee, and first political commissar of the Provincial Military Region. Xiang Nan is a member of the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Central Committees of the Communist Party of China and a member of the Central Advisory Committee of the Communist Party of China. He died in Beijing on November 10, 1997, at the age of 79.