President Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang and 11 other current and past leaders of China mourn passing of Hong Kong literary giant Louis Cha ‘Jin Yong’
- Liaison office director Wang Zhimin visits Cha’s home and relays leaders’ condolences to novelist’s widow May Lam
Cha, 94, also known by his pen name Jin Yong, died at the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital in Happy Valley with friends and family at his bedside on Tuesday afternoon.
Liaison office director Wang Zhimin visited Cha’s home on Friday night and relayed the leaders’ condolences to the novelist’s widow May Lam Lok-yee, according to the statement.
Other than Xi and Li, vice-premiers Han Zheng and Sun Chunlan, Chinese Communist Party propaganda chief Huang Kunming and former leaders Zhu Rongji, Wen Jiabao, Zhang Dejiang, Li Lanqing, Liu Yandong, Li Yuanchao, Wang Hanbin and Liao Hui also grieved Cha’s death.
Earlier on Friday, the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office published its letter of condolence to Cha’s family, praising the writer as a patriot who “carried morality and justice on his shoulders and created masterpieces with his magic hands”.
