Jiang Zemin passed away due to leukaemia and multiple organ failure in Shanghai at 12.13pm on Nov 30, 2022, at the age of 96, it was announced on Wednesday," Xinhua reported.
Xinhua said the announcement of his death was made in a letter expressing "profound grief" at Jiang's death, addressed to the whole Communist Party, military and Chinese people.
His death came after all medical treatments had failed, it added.
"Comrade Jiang Zemin was an outstanding leader ... a great Marxist, a great proletarian revolutionary, statesman, military strategist and diplomat, a long-tested communist fighter, and an outstanding leader of the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics," Xinhua quoted the letter as saying.
Jiang's death comes as China sees a
flare-up of anti-lockdown protests that have morphed into calls for wider political freedoms - the most widespread since the 1989 pro-democracy rallies that were crushed the year Jiang took power