Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin died aged 96, state media reported on Wednesday.
Born in July 1926, Jiang began his professional life as a deputy chief mechanic at the Number One Car Factory in Changchun, northeast China, before heading up the Communist Party after the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989.
Jiang relinquished the post of Communist Party chief to Hu Jintao in November 2002, and the presidency in March 2003, and retired from his final post as chairman of the Central Military Commission in September 2004, thus completing a historic succession of leadership for a younger generation of leaders led by Hu.
Rumors periodically circulated in leadership and diplomatic circles about Jiang, especially about discussions between him and current President Xi Jinping over policies that, with China’s political system being as opaque and secretive as it is, are impossible to verify.
Source: CNN Brasil
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