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Minnie Chan

Mao Zedong's only surviving son Mao Anqing  has died in Beijing, aged  84.

The second son of Mao by his first wife Yang Kaihui, died on Friday, the China News Service said yesterday, without  giving the cause of death.

It said his body was being kept in Xishan Service Centre - a hall where memorial services are held for senior officials or People's Liberation Army officers.

Mao Anqing is survived by his wife Shao Hua  and their only son Mao Xinyu . Mao Anqing also is survived by his two younger half-sisters Li Min , by Mao Zedong's second wife He Zi- zhen, and Li Na  by Mao Zedong's third wife Jiang Qing .

Mao Anqing was born on November 2, 1923, in Changsha , Hunan .

His life was filled with frustration even though he was a son of China's leading revolutionary.

Mao Anqing was left brain damaged from an attack by a Shanghai policeman when he was 10 years old. The incident happened in 1933, when  Anqing and his elder brother  Anying were  left roaming the streets in Shanghai after their mother  was killed by a Hunan warlord, He Jian,  the same year.

In 1936,  the brothers were sent to Paris by Mao's aide, and later lived in a children's home in Moscow. He returned home in 1947 and convalesced in Dailian , Liaoning , to treat his mental problems. However,  he did not quite recover  and was dealt a further blow with news of his brother Anying's death in the  Korean war in 1950.

Under the Communist Party's special arrangement, he worked at the Academy of Military Sciences as a researcher with the title of lieutenant-colonel after he joined the PLA.

Anqing married Shao Hua, a PLA officer in 1960 and their son  Xinyu was born in 1970. The couple spent 11 years in the former Soviet Union, after which Ms Shao said they were  more at ease speaking  Russian than Chinese.

Compared with her husband, Ms Shao is a more high-profile person. She was  promoted to major-general  in 1995 and is a  committee member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.



The last of Mao's sons, 84-year-old Anqing, dies in Beijing