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		</div><p>A former Chinese vice premier and top diplomat who oversaw the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China has died in Beijing aged 90.</p>
<p>Qian Qichen died of an unspecified illness on Tuesday night, the Xinhua News Agency said.</p>
<p>The Shanghai-born veteran diplomat was chairman of a committee China appointed to prepare for Hong Kong&#8217;s change of sovereignty in 1997.</p>
<p>Mr Qian was also the country&#8217;s top foreign affairs official in 2001 when relations with the United States took a steep downturn after a US navy surveillance plane collided with a Chinese fighter jet over the South China Sea.</p>
<p>The Chinese plane crashed, killing the pilot.</p>
<p>Mr Qian&#8217;s diplomatic career started in 1955 when he worked in the Chinese embassy in Moscow, returning home in 1963.</p>
<p>Xinhua said Mr Qian, who spoke English and Russian, was &#8220;an outstanding leader in diplomacy of the country&#8221;.</p>
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