2006-09-06 18:08:18 · 7 answers · asked by elaine.patton 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Jiang Zemin, born on 17 August 1926, is a native of Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. He is Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China.
He participated in the students' movement led by underground CPC organizations from 1943 and joined the CPC in April 1946. He graduated from the Electrical Machinery Department of Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1947.
After the liberation of Shanghai, he served successively as deputy engineer, chief of the works section and concurrently head of the power workshop, Party branch secretary and first deputy director of Shanghai Yimin No. 1 Foodstuff Factory, first deputy director of Shanghai Soap Factory, chief of the electrical machinery section of Shanghai No. 2 Design Division of the First Ministry of Machine-Building Industry.
He worked as a trainee at the Stalin Automobile Works in Moscow in 1955.
After returning to China in 1956, he worked as deputy chief of the dynamic mechanics division, deputy chief engineer for dynamic mechanics of the First Automobile Plant in Changchun and director of the power factory in the plant.
After 1962, he served successively as deputy director of the Shanghai Electrical Equipment Research Institute under the First Ministry of Machine-Building Industry, director and acting Party committee secretary of the Wuhan Heat-Power Machinery Institute under the Ministry, deputy director-general and director-general of the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the First Ministry of Machine- Building Industry.
After 1980, he served as vice-chairman and concurrently secretary-general of the State Administration Commission on Import and Export Affairs and the State Administration Commission on Foreign Investment and a member of the Leading Party Members' Groups of the two commissions.
After 1982, he served as first vice-minister and deputy secretary of the Leading Party Members' Group of the Ministry of Electronics Industry and minister and secretary of the Leading Party Members' Group of the Ministry.
After 1985, he served as mayor of Shanghai and deputy secretary and secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee. He was elected member of the CPC Central Committee at the Twelfth CPC National Congress in September 1982.
In November 1987, he was elected member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee at the First Plenary Session of the Thirteenth CPC Central Committee. In June 1989, he was elected member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau and general secretary of the CPC Central Committee at the Fourth Plenary Session of the Thirteenth CPC Central Committee.
In November 1989, he was elected chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission at the Fifth Plenary Session of the Thirteenth CPC Central Committee.
In March 1990, he was elected chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China at the Third Session of the Seventh National People's Congress. In October 1992, he was elected member of the Political Bureau, its Standing Committee and general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission at the First Plenary Session of the Fourteenth CPC Central Committee. Jiang was re-elected as Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China (Nov. 2002) and Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China (March 2003).
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2006-09-06 18:14:54 · answer #1 · answered by ted_armentrout 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jiang Zemin?Jiāng Zémín (born August 17, 1926) was the "core of the third generation" of Communist Party of China leaders, serving as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1989 to 2002, as President of the People's Republic of China from 1993 to 2003, and as Chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2004. His theory of the Three Represents has been written into the party and state constitutions. Under his leadership, China experienced substantial economic growth with reforms and improved its relations with the outside world while the Communist Party maintained its tight control over the government
2006-09-06 18:12:14 · answer #2 · answered by dstr 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
President of China from 1993 to 2003
General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1989 to 2002,
Presided over the Tiananmen Square massacre in which many civilians were killed because they were protesting for a democratic movement.
2006-09-06 18:14:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A native Chinese bufonid
2016-01-18 03:36:13 · answer #4 · answered by Han 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was the ex-Leader of China.
2006-09-06 18:09:51 · answer #5 · answered by choyryu 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
some dude who had a weird name
2006-09-06 18:09:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
not who but what.
its a new brood overlord in starcraft 2.......right?!!!
2006-09-06 18:15:26 · answer #7 · answered by mumin azraaq 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋