Late China leader Li’s cremation set today
Credit to Author: XINHUA| Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 16:15:45 +0000
BEIJING: The remains of late Chinese leader Li Peng will be cremated in Beijing today.
Li, who died at 91 in Beijing on July 22, served as a member of the Political Bureau and member of the Secretariat of the 12th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.
He also became a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 13th, 14th and 15th central committees of the CPC, premier, and chairman of the ninth National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee.
To mourn his death, national flags will fly at half-mast today at Tian’anmen Square, Xinhuamen, the Great Hall of the People, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, seats of provincial-level committees of the CPC and provincial-level governments, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macao Special Administrative Region, border ports, seaports and airports, and Chinese embassies and consulates.
Li was praised in an obituary jointly issued by the CPC Central Committee, the NPC Standing Committee, the State Council and the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, 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.”
Xinhua