Off the wire
• S. Africa lauds peace agreement among SPLM factions  • Kenya raises economic growth forecast for 2015  • News Analysis: Confidence in Chinese, regional economies increasingly hinge on reforms: analysts  • Albania to invest 50 mln USD in electric distribution system  • 1st LD Writethru: Suicide attack kills 3, wounds 18 in S. Afghanistan  • Spotlight: "Silver bullet" in absence, "China prescription" to global challenges under limelight in Davos  • Weather forecast for major Chinese cities, regions -- Jan. 22  • S. Korea reaches Asian Cup semis by defeating Uzbekistan in extra time  • Beijing's "southern water" safe and clear  • Weather forecast for world cities -- Jan. 22  
You are here: 　 Home

Body of senior Chinese military leader cremated in Beijing

Xinhua, January 22, 2015 Adjust font size:

Former senior Chinese military leader Zhang Wannian was cremated on Thursday.

President Xi Jinping, top legislator Zhang Dejiang, and senior leaders Yu Zhengsheng, Liu Yunshan, Wang Qishan and Zhang Gaoli attended Zhang Wannian's funeral at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in west Beijing.

Premier Li Keqiang and former leaders Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao expressed their condolence to his relatives.

Zhang Wannian was former vice chairman of the Central Military Commission and a member of the Political Bureau and Secretariat of the 15th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC). He died on Jan. 14 at the age of 87.

Zhang Wannian joined the army in 1944 and the CPC a year later. He was promoted to the rank of a general in 1993. Endit