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Beijing

Leaders mournex-State councilor

The body of Zhang Jinfu, a former State councilor, was cremated on Thursday morning in Beijing. President Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang, and senior leaders Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng, Liu Yunshan, Wang Qishan and Zhang Gaoli attended the funeral at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in western Beijing. They paid their last respects and offered Zhang's family their condolences. Zhang died at age 101 on July 31.