The remains of late Chinese leader Wu Bangguo were cremated in Beijing
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Xi Jinping shakes hands with a family member of Wu Bangguo to express deep condolences in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 14, 2024. The remains of Wu Bangguo, former chairman of the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, China’s top legislature, were cremated in Beijing on Monday. Chinese leaders including Xi Jinping, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, Li Xi, and Han Zheng paid their final respects to Wu at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery. Hu Jintao sent a wreath to express his condolences over Wu’s passing.
The remains of Wu Bangguo, former chairman of the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, China’s top legislature, were cremated in Beijing on Monday.
Chinese leaders including Xi Jinping, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, Li Xi, and Han Zheng paid their final respects to Wu at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery. Hu Jintao sent a wreath to express his condolences over Wu’s passing.
Wu died of illness in Beijing on Oct. 8 at the age of 84.
Wu was extolled in an official statement as an excellent Party member, a time-tested and loyal communist soldier, and an outstanding proletarian revolutionary, statesman and leader of the Party and the state.
He had served as a member of the Political Bureau and a member of the Secretariat of the 14th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, a member of the Political Bureau of the 15th CPC Central Committee, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 16th and 17th central committees of the CPC, vice premier of the State Council, and chairman of the Standing Committee of the 10th and 11th NPCs.
Xi Jinping, Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, Li Xi, Han Zheng, Hu Jintao, among others, had either visited Wu when he was in hospital or expressed deep condolences over his passing and offered sincere sympathies to his family through various means.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
