Memorial meeting for Chinese leader Jiang Zemin held in Beijing

People pay tribute to Jiang Zemin during a memorial ceremony in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China on December 6, 2022, in this screengrab taken from China Daily's live coverage.

BEIJING -- A memorial meeting for Jiang Zemin, who passed away on November 30 at the age of 96, was held Tuesday morning in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, Chinese President, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, spoke at the meeting.

At the beginning of the memorial meeting, all participants in the Great Hall of the People paid a three-minute silent tribute to Jiang.

This screengrab taken from China Daily's live coverage shows how people pay tribute to Jiang Zemin during a memorial in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on December 6, 2022.

In this screengrab taken from China Daily's live coverage, people pay tribute to Jiang Zemin during a memorial meeting in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on December 6, 2022.