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| | People's Daily Online -- Biography of Bo Yibo |
 | | Senior politician Bo Yibo, who served in several key posts including vice-premier and deputy head of the former CPC Central Advisory Committee, has died at the age of 99, according to an official statement on Tuesday, January 16, 2007. |
 | | Bo Yibo was born on February 17, 1908 in Dingxiang County of Shanxi Province and he joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in April 1925. |
 | | From August 1937 to October 1942, Bo served as commander and political commissar of the CPC-led resistance forces fighting Japanese invaders in Shanxi and its neighboring provinces of Hebei, Shandong and Henan during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. |
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