Song Ping, whose political career spanned five generations of Chinese leaders, also served briefly as personal secretary of China's first premier, Zhou Enlai. BEIJING: Chinese leaders on Tuesday (Mar 10) paid their respects to Song Ping, the longest-lived member of the most powerful decision-making body in the Communist Party, who died last week in Beijing at the age of 109. President Xi Jinping, Premier Li Qiang and other members of the party's current Politburo Standing Committee attended a