Death and state funeral of Jiang Zemin

Death and state funeral of Jiang Zemin
	Memorial Service for Jiang Zemin at the Great Hall of the People
Date	30 November 2022, at 12:13 (BJT); (death); 5 December 2022; (cremation); 6 December 2022; (state funeral);
Location	Shanghai and Beijing
Participants	Xi Jinping, party and state leaders, members of the Chinese Communist Party, Chinese military and civilians

Jiang Zemin, the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1989 to 2002, and the president of the People's Republic of China from 1993 to 2003, died on 30 November 2022, at the age of 96, in Shanghai. According to Xinhua News Agency, he died at 12:13 local time, from leukemia and multiple organ failures. Following a private funeral at PLA General Hospital and cremation at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, a state funeral for Jiang was held at the Great Hall of the People the next day on 6 December 2022. It was the first major state funeral held in China since 1997 when Deng Xiaoping died.

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