Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t26.4

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President of Yuexiu Foreign Language School, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province in his later years. In 1987, he was invited by the Government of India to visit the country, and returned to his Alma Mater Visva-Bharati University and Sabarmati Ashram. In 1988, he was received by the visiting Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in Beijing. The then Indian President Ramaswamy Venkataraman visited Wei Fengjiang twice in Hangzhou in 1990 and 1992, respectively. In 1997, he was again invited to visit India. He died on March 5, 2004. Both the then Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Indian National Congress President Sonia Gandhi sent messages of condolence to praise his contributions to the friendship and cultural exchanges between China and India.