Jiang Zemin

Jiang Zemin

Jiang Zemin (born 17 August 1926) is a Chinese retired politician who served as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 1989 to 2002, as Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Chinese Communist Party from 1989 to 2004, and as President of the People's Republic of China from 1993 to 2003. Jiang represented the "core of the third generation" of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders since 1989. Jiang came to power unexpectedly as a compromise candidate following the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, when he replaced Zhao Ziyang as CCP General Secretary after Zhao was ousted for his support for the student movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jiang Zemin has received more than 3,508,388 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Jiang Zemin is the 489th most popular politician (down from 439th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from China (down from 32nd in 2019) and the 18th most popular Politician.

Jiang Zemin is most famous for being the leader of China from 1989 to 2002. He was the president of China from 1993 to 2003.