Hundreds of Chinese attended here Monday morning the funeral of
late Chinese leader Mao Zedong's second son Mao Anqing, who died on
March 24 at the age of 84.
Mourners, many dressed in military uniform, queued up quietly
outside the memorial hall at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery
in western Beijing, to pay their respects to the deceased, the last
surviving son of Mao Zedong.
Mao Anqing, born in 1923 in central China's Hunan Province, was one of the three sons of
Mao Zedong and his first wife Yang Kaihui.
He was sent to Shanghai together with his elder brother Mao
Anying and younger brother Mao Anlong after their mother was killed
in 1930 by a local warlord.
In 1936, Mao Anqing and Mao Anying were sent to study in
Moscow.
Mao Anqing returned to China in 1947 and joined the Communist
Party of China (CPC).
He began working as a Russian translator in the Publicity
Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
in 1949. He translated a dozen of Marxist and Leninist works and
other books into Chinese.
(Xinhua News Agency April 2, 2007)