Friday, March 17, 2017

Communist Party elite pay tribute to late liberal leader’s wife

Chinese President Xi Jinping and all six other members of the Communist Party’s highest echelon were among the political heavyweights who paid tribute to the wife of late liberal-minded leader Hu Yaobang by attending her funeral on Friday, according to two sources.

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All seven members of the party’s Politburo Standing Committee, and former presidents Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao also sent floral tributes for Li Zhao to the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing, where the ashes of most senior cadres are kept.



source http://www.omnipopmag.com/2017/03/17/communist-party-elite-pay-tribute-to-late-liberal-leaders-wife/

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