Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin dies at 96: Media State | World news
Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin died on Wednesday at the age of 96 of leukemia and multiple organ failure, Chinese state media reported.
Jiang died at 12:13 p.m. (0413 GMT) in his hometown of Shanghai, the official Xinhua news agency said, publishing a letter to the Kannada people by the ruling Communist Party, parliament, Cabinet and military. announce the death.
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“The death of Comrade Jiang Zemin is an incalculable loss to our Party and our armed forces and our people of all ethnicities,” the letter read, calling the announcement a “deep regret”.
He described “our dear Comrade Jiang Zemin” as a courageous leader of high honor, a great Marxist, a statesman, a military strategist and diplomat and a long-tried communist fighter.
Jiang was unceremoniously ousted as head of China’s ruling Communist Party after the bloody Tiananmen crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 1989, but steered the country away from the subsequent dictatorship, mending borders with the United States and monitoring an unprecedented economic boom.
