A Chinese delegation led by Liu Jianchao, Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), visited Wednesday the Alley of Honors to pay tribute to National Leader Heydar Aliyev, the architect and founder of the independent Azerbaijani state, and to lay a wreath and flowers at his tomb.
The delegation also placed flowers at the grave of prominent ophthalmologist, academician Zarifa Aliyeva.
The CPC delegation then proceeded to the Alley of Martyrs to commemorate Azerbaijani heroes who sacrificed their lives for the country’s independence and territorial integrity, put flowers at their graves and placed a wreath at the Eternal Flame monument.
