Jiang Zemin, the former president of mainland China, died in Shanghai at 12:13 pm today at the age of 96 from leukemia and multiple organ failure, Xinhua News Agency reported.
The Tiananmen Incident of June 4, 1989 was a political watershed in mainland China. Zhao Ziyang, then general secretary of the Communist Party of China who opposed the violent repression of the student movement, was ousted and placed under house arrest until his death. Jiang Zemin, secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, who is regarded as a “conservative”, took over as the new general secretary of the CPC in June 1989, and took over as chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission in September 1989. .
After Jiang Zemin came to power, the most important political theory is “Three Representations”, which is regarded as the main theoretical basis for promoting the transformation of the CCP. However, after the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China held in 2002, he decided to keep the chairmanship of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China and resigned two years later. This practice of “supporting the horse and giving it a lift” sparked discussions of the lust for power and political interference.
When Jiang Zemin came to power, he once pursued “leftist politics and leftist economics”, and implemented CCP veteran Chen Yun’s “cage economy” line in the economic field. It wasn’t until Deng Xiaoping delivered his “Southern Tour Speech” in 1992 that he followed the trend and dedicated himself to promoting Deng’s economic reform and opening-up policy.
However, during the Jiang Zemin era, due to the vigorous construction of Shanghai, such as the establishment of Pudong New Area, although Shanghai regained its prosperity before the establishment of the Communist Party of China, under the “political left and right economic” , the state power and capital groups of the CCP continued to grow and personally gave birth to political power. The Shanghai gang forces with intricate economic forces.
As for Taiwan, Jiang Zemin made “eight-point proposals” and facilitated the first meeting between the Cross-Strait White Gloves Strait Exchange Foundation and the Cross-Strait Relations Association and started business negotiations. However, during his tenure, he also wanted to influence Taiwan’s first presidential election, igniting the Taiwan Strait Crisis in 1996 and causing cross-strait relations to stagnate for many years.
The last time Jiang Zemin appeared in public was at the 70th anniversary celebration of the CCP’s “National Day” in 2019. Jiang Zemin failed to appear at the CCP’s centenary celebration in 2021 and the 20th National Congress of the CCP in 2022.
After Xi Jinping was successfully re-elected to a third term in the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2022, he vigorously promoted his own people from local to central government, and the “Jiang faction”, “Tuan faction” or the “Shanghai gang” represented by Jiang Zemin in the political arena also dissipated.
In recent years, the news of Jiang Zemin’s serious illness has been reported many times. On July 6, 2011, Hong Kong Asia Television reported the death of Jiang Zemin. The Xinhua News Agency released an English version on July 7, 2011, noting that the media report of Jiang Zemin’s death was purely a rumor. In May 2017, Jiang Zemin was once again rumored to have died on the Internet.
Jiang Zemin, who was once dubbed “resurrected from the dead” by the media, came to the end of his life on November 30. Under the “new era” of Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China, it also marked the end of political meddling by the elderly.
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