China's Xi thanks late leader Jiang Zemin for ensuring party's survival from 'storms'

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BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping paid tribute to former leader Jiang Zemin on Tuesday (Dec 6) for ensuring the Communist Party's survival from 'political storms' and reforming it to inject new vitality and modernise the country's economy. Jiang, who died on Wednesday aged 96, confounded the naysayers, chalking up a list of achievements after breaking China out of diplomatic...

Chinese leaders Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Han Zheng, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, Li Xi, Wang Qishan, Hu Jintao, and others pay their final respects to former Chinese President Jiang Zemin at the Chinese PLA General Hospital in Beijing, China on Dec 5, 2022.

"In the late 1980s and early 1990s, serious political storms occurred at home and abroad, and world socialism experienced severe complications. Some Western countries imposed so-called 'sanctions' on China," Xi told an audience including China's top leadership and Jiang's direct successor Hu Jintao. Air raid sirens sounded for three minutes across the country at 10am when the ceremony began, and stock, currency and bond markets suspended trade, also for three minutes.

 

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