Former Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong Cremated in Beijing

Dragon Media News Desk

Liu Yandong, a former Chinese vice premier and state councilor, was cremated in Beijing on Tuesday. She died in Beijing on October 28 at the age of 81.

President Xi Jinping and other senior leaders of the Communist Party of China and the state paid their final respects to Liu at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery on Tuesday morning. The leaders included Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, Li Xi and Han Zheng.

As funeral music played, they observed a moment of silence before Liu’s remains and bowed three times. They also shook hands with members of her family and offered their condolences.

Liu served as a member of the Political Bureau of the 17th and 18th Central Committees of the Communist Party of China. She was also vice chairperson of the 10th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the country’s top political advisory body.

She was remembered as a dedicated Party member and communist, and as a prominent leader in the Party’s united front work and in education, science and technology, health, and work concerning women and children.

Xi Jinping, Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, Li Xi, Han Zheng and Hu Jintao had visited Liu in hospital or conveyed their condolences to her family after her death.