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Former senior military leader Zhang Zhen cremated

Xinhua, September 9, 2015 Adjust font size:

The body of Zhang Zhen, former vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission, was cremated Wednesday morning in Beijing.

Zhang died at the age of 101 in Beijing at 5 p.m. last Thursday.

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

They paid their last respects to the remains, and offered his family their condolences.

Zhang joined the CPC in 1930. He was conferred the title of lieutenant general in 1955 and the title of general in 1988. Endi