Chinese President and Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee General Secretary Hu Jintao (R) condoles with family members of Han Guang, former executive secretary of CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, during a farewell ceremony held at the Babaoshan cemetery in Beijing, China, Oct. 6, 2008. The remains of Han Guang was cremated at the Babaoshan cemetery in Beijing on Monday.

BEIJING, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- A host of senior Chinese leaders turned out on Monday to bid a final farewell to Han Guang, former discipline inspection chief of the Communist Party of China (CPC), who was cremated at the Babaoshan Cemetery in Beijing.

Han, former executive secretary of the CPC's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, died of illness at the age of 96 on Sept. 27 in Beijing.

President Hu Jintao, top legislator Wu Bangguo, Premier Wen Jiabao, and state and Party leaders Jia Qinglin, Li Changchun, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang attended the funeral.

Han was described in an official statement as "an outstanding CPC member, a long-tested and loyal Communist fighter, a proletarian revolutionary and an outstanding leader in the CPC discipline inspection battlefront."