The remains of Huang Ju, vice premier of China's State Council and member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, was cremated in Beijing Tuesday.

Huang died of illness at 02:03 AM June 2 in Beijing at the age of 69.

Hu Jintao, Jiang Zemin, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Zeng Qinghong, Wu Guanzheng, Li Changchun and Luo Gan paid their final respects and bid farewell to Huang Tuesday morning at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.

(Xinhua News Agency June 5, 2007)