Chinese painting master Wu Guanzhong passes away

This file photo taken in March of 2002 shows Chinese painter Wu Guanzhong speaks during a Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) meeting as a CPPCC member in Beijing, capital of China. Wu, the master of Chinese painting, passed away at 11:57 p.m. on Friday in a hospital in Beijing at the age of 91. Wu, born in 1919, is a native of Yixing, Jiangsu Province, east China. [Xinhua]