Died in a Beijing hospital on 8th January 1976
1 million people lined in the streets to pay respects when his body was taken to be cremated
Mao was too sick to attend the funeral, so Deng delivered the eulogy
Jiang then attacked Deng as ‘China’s new Khrushchev’, but had misread the feelings of the masses
The people of Beijing lay wreaths in Tiananmen square, this angered the gang of four as within the tributes, were attacks on them
Government sent trucks to remove the wreaths, leading to 10,000+ protesting, some being violently removed