Body of late former top graft-buster Wei Jianxing cremated

BEIJING, Aug. 16 -- The body of Wei Jianxing, former head of China's top anti-graft body the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China (CPC), was cremated Sunday.

President Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang and senior leaders Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng, Liu Yunshan, Wang Qishan and Zhang Gaoli, as well as former president Hu Jintao attended the funeral at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, west Beijing, on Friday morning.

They gave their respects to Wei, and offered his family their condolences.

Former president Jiang Zemin, who is not in Beijing at the current time, sent a wreath and his condolences.

Wei died in Beijing on Aug. 7. He was 85.

He was also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and served as the chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions from 1998 to 2002.

In Wei's obituary, he was praised as an excellent Party member, a time-tested and loyal communist soldier, a proletarian revolutionist, statesman and an outstanding leader of the Party and the state.