
BEIJING China’s former president Jiang Zemin, who transformed the country into a manufacturing powerhouse after the Tiananmen crackdown, died on Wednesday afternoon in Shanghai. He was 96.
State news agency Xinhua reported that Mr Jiang died of leukaemia and multiple organ failure”.
He had been rumoured to be in ill health for some time, and was absent from the October congress of the Communist Party of China CPC) which many other party elders attended.
Mr Jiang, who was the general secretary of CPC from 1989 to 2002 and head of state from 1993 to 2003, shepherded China through a transformational time.
He helmed the country when it was an international pariah following the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown on pro-democracy protests, and led the country through more than a decade of rapid economic growth.
Mr Jiang came to power in 1989, picked to lead the party and the country by paramount leader Deng Xiaoping following Mr Zhao Ziyang’s ouster after the Tiananmen incident. Mr Zhao had opposed the bloody crackdown on the student demonstrations in the heart of the Chinese capital.
Mr Jiang, then Shanghai’s party secretary, had caught Mr Deng’s eye for quelling similar protests in Shanghai without bloodshed.
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