Yang Baibing, former chief of the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army, has died at the age of 93.

Yang passed away due to an illness in Beijing on Tuesday afternoon, Xinhua News Agency quoted a statement from the General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee as saying.

Yang was a member of the Secretariat of the 13th CPC Central Committee and a Political Bureau member of the 14th CPC Central Committee. He was also the last secretary-general of the Central Military Commission. The commission has not appointed a secretary-general since 1993.