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Jiang
Zemin
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A
Short
Biography
The
Head of the
Chinese
Communist
Party, The
President of
the People's
Republic of
China
It
Was In June
1989 that . .
.
Jiang
Zemin was
elected General
Secretary of
the CPC Central
Committee, and
became
President of
the People's
Republic of
China
and Chairman of
the Central
Military
Commission.
Jiang
as a statesman
of the new
generation
has
the distinct
makings and
style of a
scholar. He has
extensive
knowledge. He
loves reading,
and the most he
reads are the
latest books on
economics,
science and
technology,
politics and
culture. While
in office in
Shanghai, he
wrote papers
such as On the
New Features of
the Development
of World
Electronic
Information
Industry and
the Strategic
Problems of the
Development of
China's
Electronic
Information
Industry, The
Trend of Energy
Development in
the World and
the Main
Energy-Saving
Measures, which
were published
in the
"Shanghai
Jiaotong
University
Journal."
He can use
English,
Russian
and
Romanian, and
knows some
German and
Japanese. In
meeting with
foreign guests,
he often
expresses his
viewpoints in
foreign
languages. He
is highly
accomplished in
famous works of
classic Chinese
literature and
often quotes in
talks
well-known
lines from
exponents of
various schools
of thought as
well as Tang,
Song and Yuan
poetry. He also
reads
extensively
famous works of
Western
literature.
He
loves to read
novels by Mark
Twain,
and
can recite
passages from
"Hamlet" by
Shakespeare and
verses from
"Ode to the
West Wind" by
Shelley. He
also knows very
well works by
Leo Tolstoy,
Pushkin,
Chekhov and
Turgenev. He
not only loves
literature, but
has a wide
range of other
interests. He
likes both erhu
tunes by A
Bing, a great
master of
Chinese folk
music, and
symphonic music
by Mozart and
Beethoven,
great masters
of Western
music. At
leisure, he may
play erhu and
bamboo flute,
traditional
Chinese musical
instruments, as
well as the
Western musical
instrument
piano.
Jiang
has a warm,
harmonious and
happy
family.
He
and his wife
have two sons,
a grandson and
a
granddaughter.
In his spare
time, Jiang
often indulges
in sporting
with these
"pearls in his
palm" in great
joy, tells them
stories and
teaches them to
recite ancient
poetry and read
English, thus
enjoying the
traditional
Chinese family
life of
"several
generations
living
together."
(The
text is adapted
from official
profile
published in
Beijing, China
and from the
memoirs of Troy
Cory. See Video
of
Jiang
and
Troy
on Shanghai
Stage.)
02.
TIMELINE
-
Headed
China's
Government
Jiang
Zemin was
born
in
August 1926 to
an intellectual
family in
Yangzhou, a
historically
and culturally
famous city at
the lower
reaches of
China's Yangtze
River.
The
cultural
background
of
his family with
a long
tradition of
learning
enabled him to
read
extensively
Chinese and
foreign
literary
masterpieces
and thus to
have a solid
foundation in
literature.
However, he
chose Shanghai
Jiaotong
University
after all, a
prestigious
university of
engineering in
China, with
electrical
engineering as
his major.
It
was Jiang
Shangqing,
his
uncle and
foster father,
who exerted a
great influence
on his later
taking the road
of a
revolutionary
as his career.
His uncle, a
Communist, who
led a regional
anti-Japanese
armed forces in
the northeast
of Anhui
Province and
north of the
Huai River in
China,
sacrificed his
life for the
country in a
battle in
1939.
••
Jiang
graduated from
Shanghai
Jiaotong
University in
1947. During
his college
years, he
participated in
the CPC-led
student
movement
against Chiang
Kai-shek's
autocratic
rule, and
joined the
Communist Party
of China in
1946.
After
the founding of
New China,
Jiang
served as an
associate
engineer, head
of a workshop
and deputy
director of a
factory in
Shanghai. In
1955, he was
sent to the
Soviet Union to
work in
Moscow's Stalin
Automobile
Works as a
trainee for one
year.
••
After
his return home
in 1956, he
served as
director of
factories and
research
institutes in
the big
industrial
cities of
Changchun,
Shanghai and
Wuhan. Later,
he was
transferred to
Beijing to take
charge of the
Foreign Affairs
Department of
the First
Ministry of
Machine-Building
Industry under
the State
Council.
Since
1980, he became
Mayor of
Shanghai,
he
served
successively as
Deputy
Director
of
the State
Import and
Export
Administration
and the State
Foreign
Investment
Administration,
Vice-Minister
and Minister of
Electronics
Industry,
Secretary of
the CPC
Shanghai
Municipal
Committee, and
member of the
Political
Bureau of the
CPC Central
Committee.
During
the Shanghai TV
Festival In
October1988,
as
a member of the
Political
Bureau of the
CPC Central
Committee
and as the
Mayor of
Shanghai,
Jiang
Zimen
played host to
the Shanghai
Television
Festival. The
Opening Night
show became the
first TV Show
to be
nationally
televised to
over 300
million viewers
throughout
China. The Troy
Cory Show,
featuring Troy
Cory, Joey
Adams and the
West
Side
Boys
were
highlighted on
the
international
program.
••
After
that event --
it was he and
Deng Xiaoping
and STV's great
staff of
workers
willingness to
take a chance
with our
"lively" show,
says Troy Cory.
"It was their
warmth and
willingess to
allow the
publishers of
TVI Magazine to
hand out its
American
magazine at the
Festival,
opening the
door for myself
and many of my
"ChinaExpo2000"
associates in
America -- to
commence doing
business in
China. Of
course, since
that time, it
was Jiang who
hosted the
successful
visit to China
made by Vice
President Gore
and President
Clinton, and it
was Jiang who
also oversaw
the peaceful
handover of
Hong Kong back
to China in
July
1997."
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1988
/ 1012 -
Television
International
Magazine was
the first
American show
business
magazine in
China. TVI
introduced and
delivered it
first issue
during the
Shanghai TV
Festival
attended by
Beijing
dignitaries,
Minister
President, Zhu
Rongji, and the
then mayor of
Shanghai, Jiang
Zemin. Bernard
Schwartz
introduces
Loral, U.S.A.
-- to China. He
is a personal
friend of Bill
Clinton.
SEE
COPY OF
MAGAZINE.
•
1989
- Deng Xiaoping
officially,
Deng decided to
retire from top
positions when
he stepped down
as Chairman of
the Central
Military
Commission in
1989, and
retired from
the political
scene in 1992.
China, however,
was still in
the era of Deng
Xiaoping. He
continued to be
widely regarded
as the
"paramount
leader" of the
country,
believed to
have backroom
control. Hu
Jintao, Deng's
hand-picked
man, is now the
leader of the
fourth
generation of
the PRC
leadership.
Deng was
recognized
officially as
"The architect
of China's
economic
reforms and
China's
socialist
modernization".
•
1989
- Jiang Zemin
takes over as
Chinese
Communist Party
general
secretary from
Zhao Ziyang,
who refused to
support martial
law during the
Tiananmen
demonstrations.
•
1989
- TIANANMEN
SQUARE / Lone
protester halts
tank column on
Avenue of
Eternal Peace
during 1989
crackdown on
demonstrators
who had camped
for weeks in
TIANANMEN
SQUARE, to
demand the
posthumous
rehabilitation
of former CCP
General
Secretary Hu
Yaobang, who
was forced to
resign in
1987.
•
1989
- TROY CORY
SHOW -
CHINA
EXPO 1992
BEIJING TV
SHOW. -- MORE
STORY.
•
1989
- TROY CORY
SHOW -
CHINA
EXPO 1992 TV
SHOW. Bernie
Schwartz -
Satallite. --
MORE
STORY.
•
1989
/ 0225 - Feb.
25 26, 1989:
President
George Bush
visits China. -
The 40-hour
visit in
Beijing is more
like a stopover
on the way back
from the
funeral in
Tokyo of
Japanese
Emperor
Hirohito. It
ends up being
his only visit
to China as
president. Bush
does a live
interview on
China's Central
People's
Television
Broadcasting in
front of an
estimated 600
million Chinese
viewers. The
interview is
immediately
followed by the
Chinese-translated
version of
Disney's
"Mickey and
Donald Show."
The president
and First Lady
Barbara Bush
visit
Chongwenmen
Church, where
their daughter
was baptized as
a teenager when
Bush headed the
U.S. mission to
China in 1974
and 1975. Bush
invites
renowned
physicist and
prominent
dissident Fang
Lizhi to a
Texas-style
barbecue at
Beijing's Great
Wall Sheraton.
The police
prevent Fang
from attending,
and the Chinese
government
responds
angrily to what
it sees as an
affront. Bush
meets with
Premier Li
Peng, Party
Secretary Zhao
and "paramount
leader" Deng,
who tells Bush:
"Since your
visit is a
working visit,
the protocol is
simple. It is
hoped that you
will be able to
come to China
for an official
visit at an
appropriate
time. Slightly
more than three
months later
Deng orders
Chinese
soldiers to
forcibly clear
TIANANMEN
SQUARE of
protesters,
resulting in
hundreds,
perhaps
thousands, of
deaths. Under
pressure from
angry
Americans, Bush
imposes
economic
sanctions.
•
1990
- Stockmarkets
open in
Shanghai and
Shenzhen.
•
1990
-
TROY
CORY SHOW -
CHINA EXPO 1990
DELEGATION.
The
Troy Cory
Television
Show, featured
Troy Cory, Tina
Kincaid,
Angelica
Bridges and
Jeanie Woo,
attends and
performs at the
Shanghai TV
Festival.
Performs in
concert at
Beijing
colosseum and
meets Deng
Xiaoping;
Travels to
Anshan to
perform. The
show was
produced by
Wayne Gan and
China Expo
2000AD. -- MORE
STORY.
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