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Body of former CPC publicity official cremated

Xinhua, February 17, 2015 Adjust font size:

Deng Liqun, a former senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC), was cremated on Tuesday.

President Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang and senior leaders Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng, Liu Yunshan, Wang Qishan and Zhang Gaoli attended the funeral at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in west Beijing.

State leaders and former presidents Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao had visited Deng when he was in hospital or expressed condolence to his family after his death.

Deng passed away in Beijing last week, he was 100.

He was praised as an excellent CPC member, a loyal communist soldier, a proletarian revolutionist, an outstanding leader in the Party's ideological and theoretical publicity work, and a Marxist theorist. Endi