Last respects paid to 'One-armed General'

Hundreds of people paid their last respects to Ye Xuanning, former director of the Liaison Department of the People's Liberation Army General Political Department, in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, on Thursday.

Ye, the second son of late PLA Marshall Ye Jianying, died from an illness in Guangzhou on Sunday at age 79.

Ye Xuanning was born in 1938 and joined the Army in 1956. With his right arm disabled when he was 31, Ye still kept a positive attitude and worked hard, and was awarded the rank of major general. He was widely known as the "One-armed General" to the public.