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Jiang Zemin (2011 photo)
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Jiang Zemin is dead. The former Chinese head of state and party leader died on Wednesday at the age of 96, the state news agency Xinhua reported.
He was suffering from leukemia and died in Shanghai as a result of multiple organ failure.
Zemin was President of China from 1993 to 2003 and the highest-ranking representative of the Communist Party as General Secretary of the Central Committee from 1989 to 2002.
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