former president Chinese Jiang Floor, He died this Wednesday at the age of 96, according to the country’s official press, who held the post from 1993 to 2003.
State news agency Xinhua reported in a brief statement that the former president died in the eastern city of Shanghai. Headed the local branch of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the 1980s.
According to the aforementioned media, Jiang died of leukemia – a situation that has not been announced by the press and institutions before – and multiple organ failure.
Born in the eastern town of Yangzhou in 1926, the politician was appointed general secretary of the CCP in 1989, when he took the reins of the country, although he was not elected president until 1993.
The local press remembers Jiang’s last public appearance took place on October 1, 2019.On the occasion of the National Day and in celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the proclamation of the National Republic of China.
Jiang’s tenure marked Continuity with the economic opening initiated by his predecessor and mentor Deng XiaopingChina’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001, or Winning the 2008 Olympics for Beijingbut also because of the persecution of the Falun Gong religious sect.