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China holds state funeral to see off former president Jiang Zemin

MADRID, 6 Dic.

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China holds state funeral to see off former president Jiang Zemin

MADRID, 6 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

China said goodbye to former President Jiang Zeming on Tuesday at a state funeral held in the Great Hall of the People, located in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, where attendees paid a tribute of three minutes of silence at the beginning of the meeting.

Senior officials of the Chinese Communist Party have met to say goodbye to Zeming at a time when the government is facing strong protests in various parts of the country precisely against the government's 'zero COVID' policy.

With the funeral - in which the current Chinese president, Xi Jinping, has delivered a speech in tribute to Zeming - the week of national mourning ends, as reported by Xinhua.

Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who died on Wednesday at the age of 96 due to leukemia, will be buried on December 6 after his coffin was transferred this Thursday from the city of Shanghai to Beijing, the capital, where he was received by senior government officials, including President Xi Jinping.

Zemin was General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1989 to 2002 and President of the country from 1993 to 2003. He was also responsible for introducing the concept of "socialist market economy" during a party congress in 1992 and for overseeing the transfer of sovereignty Hong Kong and Macao from the United Kingdom and Portugal in 1997 and 1999, respectively.

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