Li Qiang, Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang among Chinese leaders paying respects to the leading facial recognition expert and SenseTime co-founder, who died Friday.
As international health experts expected 2.1 million COVID-19 deaths in the following months, China's funeral homes and hospitals have reported being swamped.
China is a country in major COVID crisis if disturbing images posted on social media showing families burning the bodies of loved ones in the streets are to believed.
Some videos on Twitter show families allegedly burning the bodies of loved ones in the streets of Chinese cities as funeral homes struggle to handle the surge in COVID deaths.