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Wednesday, May 31, 2000, updated at 07:50(GMT+8)
China  

Body of China's Religious Leader Cremated

The body of Zhao Puchu, a vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, was cremated in Beijing Tuesday.

Chinese leaders including Jiang Zemin, Li Ruihuan, Hu Jintao, and Li Lanqing were present at the Beijing Babaoshan Cemetery for Revolutionaries to pay their last tribute to the Chinese religious leader who had closely cooperated with the Communist Party of China for decades.

Before his death, Chinese leaders Li Peng, Zhu Rongji and Wei Jianxing visited Zhao at the hospital.

Zhao died on May 21 in Beijing at the age of 93.

According to official files, Zhao Puchu, born on November 5, 1907 in Taihu County, Anhui Province, in east China.

Before 1949, Zhao was a local leader in Buddhist and charitable circles in Shanghai. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, he had been a national Buddhist leader and a leading activist in promoting Sino-foreign relations and exchanges.

Zhao was an honorary chairman of the 10th Central Committee of the China Association for Promoting Democracy (CAPD). He also was one of the most famous calligraphers in China.




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The body of Zhao Puchu, a vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, was cremated in Beijing Tuesday.

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