Former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (1926–2022)
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He took power in the shadow of Tiananmen, a compromise nobody expected to last, and held China through two decades that turned it into an economic colossus — overseeing the return of Hong Kong, entry into the WTO, and the transformation from command economy to market juggernaut.
Born in Yangzhou in 1926 during Japanese occupation, Jiang studied electrical engineering, joined the Communist Party in college, and graduated in 1947. After 1949 he trained at the Stalin Automobile Works in Moscow, returned to Shanghai in 1962, and spent 1970–1972 in Romania building machinery plants. He rose through technical posts — vice chair overseeing special economic zones after 1979, vice minister of electronics in 1982, mayor of Shanghai in 1985, then party secretary there in 1987. In 1989, after the Tiananmen massacre, he replaced the ousted Zhao Ziyang as general secretary, a compr…
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You are very familiar with western ways, but you are too young. You go everywhere to follow the big news, but the questions you ask are too simple — sometimes naïve.
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.
A review of our party's seventy-plus-year history elicits an important conclusion.
I don't think this man was killed by the tank. I can't confirm whether this young man you mentioned was arrested or not. I think that he was never killed.
He was never arrested. I don't know where he is now.
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