On this day 44 years ago, on May 29, 1981 (April 26, 1981 lunar calendar), Soong Ching Ling passed away. Soong Ching Ling, Honorary President of the People's Republic of China, passed away in Beijing at 18:18 on the 20th of the 29th due to illness, at the age of 90. A grand memorial meeting was held in the Great Hall of the People on June 3. Soong Ching Ling, a native of Wenchang County, Guangdong Province. Married Sun Yat-sen in 1915. During the Second National Congress of the Chinese Nationals, she resolutely implemented Sun Yat-sen's three major policies, worked closely with the Chinese Communists, and fought against the Kuomintang Rightists. After the "April 12" and "July 15" counter-revolutionary coups in Shanghai and Wuhan, she and 22 other people, including Mao Zedong, issued a manifesto in the name of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang to expose the rebellion of Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei. In 1929, she was elected as the honorary chairperson of the Second Anti-imperialist League Congress of the World, and later became one of the main leaders of the World Anti-Fascist Committee. In the 1930s, she and Lu Xun, Cai Yuanpei, Yang Xingfo and other organizations organized the "Chinese Civil Rights Protection League" to fight tit-for-tat with the Kuomintang reactionaries. During the Anti-Japanese War, she supported the anti-Japanese struggle led by the Chinese Communist Party. She founded the Chinese public welfare fund in Shanghai, which provided great material help for the Liberation War. In 1949, she was elected as the vice chairperson of the Central People's Government; in Elected Vice President of the People's Republic of China in 1959 and 1965. Was an outstanding leader in the women's circle of China. On May 15, 1981, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China accepted her as a full member. On May 16, she was awarded the honorary title of Honorary President of the People's Republic of China. She was internationally recognized as one of the greatest women of the 20th century. Photos of Soong Ching Ling's student days Sun Yat-sen and his wife Soong Ching Ling when Soong Ching Ling was a student in the Department of Literature at Wesleyan Women's College Sun Yat-sen and his wife Soong Ching Ling at the Grand Marshal's Mansion in Guangzhou in February 1923 Soong Ching Ling held a wake at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall at Biyun Temple in Xishan, Beijing in September 1954 Soong Ching Ling in the People's Republic of China Mao Zedong met Soong Ching Ling at the former residence of Sun Yat-sen in Shanghai in 1961 Vote at the first meeting of the First National People's Congress At this meeting, she was elected Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the First National People's Congress. On May 8, 1981, Vice Chairman Soong Ching Ling was awarded an honorary doctorate in law from the University of Victoria, Canada. Soong Ching Ling died Deng Xiaoping, Hu Yaobang, etc. paid tribute to Soong Ching Ling's body