Guangzhou | Late former political advisor Ye Xuanping cremated

Ye Xuanping, former vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) who died of illness last week, was cremated yesterday in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province. Ye died at the age of 95 on September 17.
Senior mainland officials including Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao had either visited Ye when he was in the hospital or offered their condolences to his families after his death.
Entrusted by the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Wang Yang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, paid his final respects to Ye at the funeral service in Guangzhou.
Wang stood in silent tribute and bowed three times in front of Ye’s body, shook hands with Ye’s family members and conveyed the condolences from Xi, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, and other senior leaders.
Born in 1924 in Guangdong, Ye joined the revolutionary cause in January 1941 and became a CPC member in September 1945. Ye served as the vice chairman of the seventh, eighth and ninth national committees of the CPPCC. He was also a member of the 12th, 13th and 14th CPC central committees.
Ye was described in an official statement as an excellent CPC member, a long-tested and loyal communist fighter, a proletarian revolutionist and an outstanding leader of China’s economic development. Xinhua