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Jiang Zemin
Jiang Zemin was a Chinese politician who served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the fourth paramount leader of China from 1989 to 2002, as the chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2004, and as the president of China from 1993 to 2003. He was the core leader of the third generation of Chinese leadership, one of four core leaders alongside Mao Ze…
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politics · Leader of China from 1989 to 2002 · politician · electrical engineer · also Jiang Zemin, Jiang Ze Min, Jiangzemin, Zemin Jiang, General Secretary Jiang Zemin, Chiang Tse-min
Born 17 August 1926 · Died 30 November 2022 · Q16597
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2026· 27 entries
theweek.in: OPINION | Xi Jinping uses Jiang Zemin tribute to send stern warning
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The Diplomat: Xi Jinping’s Jiang Zemin: Rewriting the ‘Reform Era’ to Serve the ‘New Era’
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Gizmodo en Español: Xi Jinping volvió a hablar de Tiananmén, uno de los mayores tabúes de China. Lo hizo para elogiar la “firmeza” de Jiang Zemin mientras advertía de las tormentas que vienen
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China Academy: Jiang Zemin’s Legacy: What It Means for China
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CNA: Grand tribute, sombre farewell: How China remembered Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji over two days
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中国驻巴基斯坦使馆: Chinese Embassy in Pakistan Holds Symposium Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Comrade Jiang Zemin
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Intelligence Online: Spotlight China Shadow of purges falls on CCP ceremonies for Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji
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Le Monde.fr: China's Xi Jinping pays tribute to ex-leader Jiang Zemin, architect of the post-Tiananmen crackdown
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Ecns.cn: China publishes selected works of Jiang Zemin on foreign policy
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Sinocism | Bill Bishop: Funeral for Zhu Rongji; Xi meets Ecuadorian President Noboa; Jiang Zemin; Housing provident fund; Consumption; What does China want?
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Friends of Socialist China: Xi Jinping’s speech at the gathering commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Jiang Zemin
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Vinanet: China's Tributes to Zhu Rongji and Jiang Zemin Spotlight Reform Era as Economic Priorities Evolve - Profit Recovery Report
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Blueprint Newspapers: Xi calls for learning from Jiang Zemin’s rock-solid political conviction
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PressReader: Xi Jinping en acto por centenario de Jiang Zemin: elogia la represión de Tiananmén y pide volver a una China con “espíritu de lucha indomable”
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CCTV.com English: China issues commemorative coins marking 100th birth anniversary of Jiang Zemin
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Nikkei Asia: China tributes to Zhu Rongji and Jiang Zemin cast light on past and future
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ThinkChina: Xi invokes Jiang Zemin’s legacy to chart China’s ‘new journey’
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Spanish People Daily: China celebra simposio sobre difunto líder Jiang Zemin
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Spanish People Daily: Xi insta a impulsar socialismo con peculiaridades chinas con motivo del centenario del natalicio del difunto líder Jiang Zemin
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조선일보: Xi Jinping Stresses Party Unity via Jiang Zemin's Legacy
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South China Morning Post: Editorial | Xi Jinping’s tribute to Jiang Zemin reinforces continuity and party unity
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Sinocism | Bill Bishop: More weak July economic data; State Council Plenary session; Jiang Zemin Commemoration; AI tokens; Xi's DC visit; “Once Upon a Time in the Middle East”
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Nuevo Poder: Xi Jinping reivindica legado de Jiang Zemin en la antesala de la renovación del poder chino
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Public attention spiked: 8,186 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.2× the usual 1,325, with 6 article edits. Coverage that week: “Funeral for Zhu Rongji; Xi meets Ecuadorian President Noboa; Jiang Zemin; Housing provident fund; Consumption; What does China want?” (Sinocism | Bill Bishop).
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Public attention spiked: 4,782 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.6× the usual 1,325, with 2 article edits. Editors noted: script-assisted date audit and style fixes per MOS:NUM
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2025· 1 entry
Reported claimRated False. The man escorted was his successor Hu Jintao. Mr Jiang's last public appearance was in 2019. · AAP
AAP rated the claim “Ex-Chinese president Jiang Zemin was escorted from the CCP Congress just weeks before he died on November 30.” False. The man escorted was his successor Hu Jintao. Mr Jiang's last public appearance was in 2019..
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2022· 4 entries
Died 2022-11-30.
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Jiang died at the age of 96 in Shanghai; he was accorded a state funeral
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“We want to learn from the west about science and technology and how to manage the economy, but this must be combined with specific conditions here. That's how we have made great progress in the last twenty years.”
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“Jiang: Perhaps I've offended you today!”
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2021· 1 entry
The Resolution on the Major Achievements and Historical Experience of the Party over the Past Century evaluated Jiang's tenure as:After the fourth plenary session of the 13th Central Committee, Chinese communists, with C
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2012· 1 entry
Jiang's position in the protocol sequence of leaders retreated; while he was often seated next to Xi Jinping at official events, his name was often reported after all standing members of the Communist Party's Politburo
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2009· 1 entry
Jiang himself evaluated his tenure by saying "In the more than ten years I have been in Beijing, I have done nothing but three things
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2008· 1 entry
Jiang published an academic article on China's clean energy resources and another on China's information technology development titled Reflections on Energy Issues in China
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2007· 1 entry
Jiang was seen with Hu Jintao on stage at a ceremony celebrating the 80th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army, and toured the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution with Li Peng, Zhu R
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2004· 1 entry
China and Russia re-demarcated the border, dividing Heixiazi Island into two parts, with the western part returning to China
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2002· 1 entry
To cede about 27,000 square kilometers of disputed land in the neighboring Pamir region, allowing Tajikistan to obtain 96
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2001· 4 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Tahiti Nui (2001).
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And Beijing winning the bid to host the 2008 Summer Olympics
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The two countries established the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) together with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
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As well as the founding of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
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2000· 3 entries
Awarded Order of Bethlehem (2000).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer (2000).
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Regarding the central government's apparent "imperial order" of supporting Tung Chee-hwa to seek a second term as Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Jiang scolded the Hong Kong journalists as "too simple, sometimes naive" in
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1999· 5 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Good Hope (1999).
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A national strategy which sought to develop national champion firms, increase foreign demand for Chinese goods and services, and secure energy and resources
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Jiang started a crack down on Falun Gong
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Oversaw the handover of Macau from Portugal
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Jiang deemed the United States-China bilateral relation too important to be harmed in the emotion of the moment and sought to soothe the Chinese public's outrage
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1998· 3 entries
The Chinese government started a project to maintain tighter control over the internet in what became known as the Great Firewall
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Alone, Zhu slashed the central bureaucracy in half and over 11 ministries
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Chinese president Jiang praised the American film Titanic during an address to the National People's Congress in order to demonstrate his endorsement of Western cultural imports
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1997· 6 entries
Handed most of the economic governance of the country to premier Zhu Rongji and remained in office through the Asian financial crisis
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Jiang also played the ukulele during his 1997 visit to Hawai'i.
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And of Macau from Portugal in 1999, and entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001, were landmark moments of his era
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Jiang oversaw the handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom
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Drawing various crowds in protest from the Tibet Independence Movement to supporters of the Chinese democracy movement
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Jiang proposed the three-step development strategy for modernizing national defense and armed forces in the Realizing the Strategic Goal of Cross-Century Development of National Defense and Military Modernization
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1996· 4 entries
Premier Li Peng signed a State Council Order issuing the Temporary Regulations Governing Computer Information Networks and the Internet
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The US bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1999 and the 2001 Hainan island incident
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Formed the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education
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In protest to the Republic of China government under President Lee Teng-hui, who had been seen as moving its foreign policy away from the One-China policy
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1995· 1 entry
Delivered a public speech entitled "What the People Want Is Always in My Heart" at the Olin Lectures at Cornell University
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1993· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of the People's Republic of China (1993–2003).
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1992· 2 entries
An advisory body composed of revolutionary party elders
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Jiang officially introduced the term socialist market economy in his speech during the 14th CCP National Congress held later that year, which accelerated reform and opening up
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1991· 1 entry
Jiang signed the Agreement between the People's Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Eastern Section of the Sino-Soviet Border with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, and signed the Memorand
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1990· 1 entry
Career landmark: Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China (1990–2005).
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1989· 3 entries
Career landmark: member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (1989–2002).
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Career landmark: General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (1989–2002).
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Career landmark: Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Chinese Communist Party (1989–2004).
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1988· 1 entry
Jiang banned party and government organs from engaging in business activities
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1987· 3 entries
Career landmark: Secretary of the Shanghai Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (1987–1989).
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Sang When We Were Young and danced with Dianne Feinstein, who was mayor of San Francisco at the time
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Career landmark: member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party (1987–2002).
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1986· 1 entry
Jiang recited the Gettysburg Address in English in front of a group of student protesters
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1985· 3 entries
Career landmark: mayor of Shanghai (1985–1988).
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And was later promoted to its Communist Party secretary, as well as a member of the CCP Politburo, in 1987
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A political reshuffle took place in Shanghai
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1980· 1 entry
Jiang headed a delegation which toured other SEZs in twelve countries; upon his return, he issued a radical report which recommended allowing local authorities to issue tax breaks and land leases, and increasing the powe
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1979· 1 entry
Following a thawing of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, Deng Xiaoping decided to encourage special economic zones (SEZs) as part of his Four Modernizations
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1970· 1 entry
After leaving the cadre school, he became the deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the ministry and was sent to the Romania, where he served as head of the expert team to establish fifteen machinery manufactu
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1966· 1 entry
Was appointed as the director and deputy party secretary of a thermal engineering research institute in Wuhan, which was established by the First Ministry of Machine Building
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1962· 1 entry
Returned to Shanghai and became the deputy director of the Shanghai Electric Research Institute, where he worked until 1965
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1955· 1 entry
Started his training at the Stalin Automobile Works in Moscow
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1954· 1 entry
Was transferred to help design the five-year plan of the First Ministry of Machine Building; the transfer was arranged by vice minister Wang Daohan
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1949· 1 entry
Received training at the Stalin Automobile Works in Moscow in the 1950s, and later returned to Shanghai in 1962 to serve in various institutes before being sent between 1970 and 1972 to Romania as part of an expert te
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1947· 2 entries
With a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering
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Studied at Chiao Tung University (1946–1947).
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1945· 1 entry
Studied at National Central University (1943–1945).
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1943· 1 entry
Studied at Yangzhou High School of Jiangsu Province (1937–1943).
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1937· 1 entry
Studied at Yangzhou Dongguan Primary School (1933–1937).
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1926· 1 entry
Born 1926-08-17.
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