Leaders pay last respects to Huang

Huang, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, died of illness at 2:03 am on June 2 in Beijing at the age of 69.

Top leaders, including President and Party General Secretary Hu Jintao, former leader Jiang Zemin, top legislator Wu Bangguo, and Premier Wen Jiabao, paid their final respects and bid farewell to Huang yesterday morning at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.