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Death of a dove reignites China foreign policy debate

Edit Topix 25 Jun 2016
On Friday morning, family members, friends, foreign affairs officials and former ambassadors paid their last respects to late Chinese diplomat Wu Jianmin, who died in a traffic accident last weekend. Visitors at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing were each given a white flower and a brochure detailing the retired diplomat's life ... ....

Funeral held for pioneering space scientist

Edit China Daily 19 Apr 2016
A funeral for Liang Sili, one of China's top space scientists, was held at Beijing's Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery on Monday. An academic at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the International Academy of Astronautics, Liang died from an illness on Thursday morning at age 91 ... (China Daily 04/19/2016 page3) ....

Grave business: undertakers vie for title of China’s most skilled handler of the dead

Edit South China Morning Post 29 Dec 2015
They should receive “ivory white ashes without any impurities”, a government representative was quoted as saying ... Top honours went to Wei Tong and Wang Yuanyuan from Beijing’s Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, and Wei Zhongshan from Jiangxi province’s Nanchang Funeral Management office ... ....

Beijing expects half burials go green in 2020

Edit China Daily 21 Oct 2015
Eco-friendly funerals are currently available at more than 30 cemeteries in Beijing. In Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, where many famous national figures are interred, an eco-friendly cemetery opened in August, receiving nearly 100 applications so far, according to authorities with the cemetery....

Beijing expects half burials go green in 2020 (Beijing Municipal Government)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Oct 2015
... to transform traditional cemeteries into green ones. Eco-friendly funerals are currently available at more than 30 cemeteries in Beijing. In Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, where many famous national figures are interred, an eco-friendly cemetery opened in August, receiving nearly 100 applications so far, according to authorities with the cemetery....

China’s funeral revolutionaries

Edit The Guardian 08 Sep 2015
A hospital worker recommended that he call the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, the city’s best-known resting place ... “We went to all of the hospitals, to the funeral parlours, to the cemeteries, to the nursing homes.” They recorded prices and counted customers. In the still hours before dawn, they filed into the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery to observe the funerals of strangers ... Cemetery managers buy them from crematoriums....

Late Chinese leader Zhang Jinfu cremated

Edit China Daily 06 Aug 2015
... and Zhang Gaoli, attended the funeral at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in west Beijing....

Top Chinese leaders attend funeral of Wan Li (The Central People's Government of the People's ...

Edit Public Technologies 23 Jul 2015
(Source. The Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China) Late Chinese leader Wan Li cremated in Beijing ... President Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang, former president Hu Jintao, and senior leaders Zhang Dejiang, Liu Yunshan, Wang Qishan and Zhang Gaoli, attended the funeral at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery ... (noodl....

Late Chinese leader Wan Li cremated

Edit China Daily 22 Jul 2015
President Xi Jinping, premier Li Keqiang, former president Hu Jintao, and senior leaders Zhang Dejiang, Liu Yunshan, Wang Qishan and Zhang Gaoli, attended the funeral at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery ... ....

Late former Chinese top legislator cremated

Edit CNTV 20 Jun 2015
A former Chinese top legislator has been cremated at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in west Beijing. ....

Late former Chinese top legislator Qiao Shi cremated

Edit China Daily 19 Jun 2015
President Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang, former president Hu Jintao, and senior leaders Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng, Liu Yunshan, Wang Qishan, attended the funeral at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, west Beijing, on Friday morning ... ....

President Xi sends floral tribute to funeral of Lu Ping, architect of Hong Kong handover

Edit South China Morning Post 09 May 2015
All seven members of China's supreme Politburo Standing Committee, along with former presidents, sent condolence wreaths to the funeral of Lu Ping , a key architect of Hong Kong's handover, in Beijing yesterday. The flowers were placed around Lu's coffin inside the assembly hall of Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, where the nation's heroes, martyrs and Communist Party cadres are honoured ... Lu died aged 87 in Beijing last Sunday ... ....

Show must go on says, says Lu Ping's violinist daughter-in-law

Edit South China Morning Post 07 May 2015
A shared love of classical music will unite the grieving family of Lu Ping , Beijing's former Hong Kong affairs chief who died last Sunday aged 88, says his violinist daughter-in-law ... Rehearsal week was interrupted by trips to Beijing in the run-up to the funeral, which takes place tomorrow at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in the presence of dignitaries including Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying ... "We hope he will rest in peace ... ....
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