Chinese President Xi Jinping praised Tuesday the late former leader Jiang Zemin for his achievements including curbing the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement and overseeing economic reform in China alongside its partial opening up at a memorial service held in Beijing.Jiang, who died of leukemia and multiple organ failure at the age of 96 in Shanghai last Wednesday, is credited with guiding China's rapid rise to major power status as the ruling Communist Party's leader between 1989 and 2002.About 5,000 senior Communist Party members, as well as government and military officials, w…READ FULL ARTICLE
