Babaoshan, Beijing’s Main Crematorium Data from previous years indicates that cremations at Babaoshan Funeral House account for about a quarter of the total number of cremations in Beijing.

Security guards are seen at an entrance to the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing on Nov. 2, 2023.

His funeral was held on June 8 at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, the country’s most prestigious cemetery for top officials and so-called national heroes.

He was given a funeral ceremony at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery on July 15. The Babaoshan Cemetery is exclusively for Beijing’s elites. It is unusual for someone like Mr.

The 68-year-old’s body was cremated at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing on Nov. 2. State media CCTV broadcasted a video showing CCP leader Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, shaking hands with Mr.

Security guards are seen at an entrance to the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing on Nov. 2, 2023.

Before 7 a.m., I arrived at Babaoshan. I had to wait in line for more than 2 hours to get his ashes. It only takes an average of 5 minutes to check a person's ID [to get it]. How many people do you think were there [waiting to get ashes]?"

Those employees infected by COVID-19 have to keep working, as the earliest open cremation slot is Dec. 20, an employee of Babaoshan Crematorium told the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times on Dec. 14.

Babaoshan Mountain refers to Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, a cemetery for high-level CCP officials or individuals who have made important contributions to the party.

Security guards are seen at an entrance to the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing on Nov. 2, 2023.

Mei said his father-in-law "ended up on the floor of the hospital morgue waiting to be cremated” because “200-300 bodies are waiting to be cremated every day at Beijing’s Babaoshan cemetery, and today there is no line for him.”

When Zhao died in 2005, his ashes were not buried in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing, reserved for senior CCP officials. It was not until 2019 that Zhao's ashes were buried in a civilian cemetery in a suburb of the Chinese capital.

“The old gentleman is a senior Party member who has received medallions from the country, but can only wait for cremation in the hospital morgue,” Mei wrote on Dec. 21, adding that the Beijing Babaoshan Funeral House, where his body will be sent, cremates

Party leaders bid farewell to Jiang and escorted his remains to Beijing's Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery for cremation. The next day, top party officials gathered for a memorial service in Beijing's Great Hall of the People.

Babaoshan Funeral Home, Beijing's main crematorium, also had to increase to 24 hours of operation within a week after reopening, due to overwhelming demands.

Lin, a staff member of Beijing Babaoshan Funeral Home, told The Epoch Times on Dec. 14 that the number of people who died in recent days was particularly high. "Every day is very busy now," he said. "I have never been so busy.

Beijing's Babaoshan Funeral Home operates 19 cremation furnaces and is Beijing’s only facility for specialty cremation, with wider, longer, and taller furnaces for tall or obese corpses.

While he was still alive, Zhao said he would refuse to be buried at Babaoshan, and also applied twice to formally quit the Party, according to Secret China, a U.S.

She says that because the CCP ignored the wishes of her family and their family, she wouldn't attend the funeral at Babaoshan.

An analysis of Babaoshan Funeral House, one of Beijing’s largest cremation facilities, documented a total of 456 corpses a day for 19 furnaces working around the clock; that is 24 corpses per day per furnace, matching our estimation.

Leaked Documents As early as in September 2018, Beijing city arranged for the Babaoshan funeral home to set up a working station at the Tiantan Hospital, as part of an effort to crack down on privately-run companies that run funeral-related services.

Chinese authorities organized Li’s funeral at the Babaoshan cemetery on Feb. 20, an honor reserved for high officials—though Li had refused the offer prior to his death, according to his family. Chinese state media did not report on the funeral.

According to state media, Yuan's funeral was held at Babaoshan, a cemetery for senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials, on Dec. 23.

The memorial service for the former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang is being held at this moment in Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.

To prevent large-scale mourning, news of his death in 2005 was censored, and a sizable police detail patrolled Beijing and the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, where a small-scale memorial session was attended by hundreds.

But on Aug. 6, Xinhua reported that Liu was at the funeral of former State Councilor of China Zhang Jinfu with Xi and other Politburo members at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing, about 186 miles from Beidaihe.

His ashes were stored in the exclusive Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, which is usually reserved for the highest-ranking CCP officials.

POLITICS OF DEATH: Chinese security guard keeps watch at the end of ceremonies for Zhao Ziyang at his funeral outside the Babaoshan Cemetery on Jan. 29, 2005, in Beijing, China.

He called Babaoshan police station where my home was located and I was escorted home by a local policeman. By then, I had been illegally detained nearly for a month.