The ashes of the former Chinese leader Ciang were deposited in the sea

According to Xinhua news, the former leader’s ashes were scattered into the sea at the junction of the river with the sea in the city of Shanghai, at the request of his will and family.

Ciang died at the age of 96 of leukemia and multiple organ failure in Shanghai on November 30. Ciang’s body was cremated at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery crematorium in Beijing on November 5.

A memorial service for the former Chinese leader was held at the Great Hall of the People in the capital on November 6.

Ciang, who is remembered as the leader of the period when China began to integrate into the world economy after the end of the Cold War, ruled the country as General Secretary and Head of State of the Communist Party from the late 1980s to the early 1980s. from the 2000s.

Ciang continued the reform and opening-up policies initiated by his predecessor, Ding Xiaoping, and became the architect of the policies that opened up space for the free market in a completely state-controlled centrally planned economy, with the concept of “private economy.” of the socialist market”. “. (BRITISH AUTOMOBILE CLUB)