The Embassy of China in Bangladesh Thursday opened an online book of condolence on its Facebook page to pay respect to former president Jiang Zemin, who supported economic reforms that led to a decade of explosive growth in the East Asian country.
Jiang, 96, died of leukaemia and multiple organ failure at 12:13pm on November 30 in Shanghai, where he was a former mayor, according to Xinhua News Agency.
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The embassy invited people from all walks of life in Bangladesh to express their condolences and pay tribute to Jiang, also former general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and former chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the CPC and former chairman of the CMC, till December 6.