Jiang Zemin

[jyahng zœ-min]

noun

1. 1926–2022, Chinese Communist leader: general secretary of the Communist Party 1989–2002, president of China 1993–2003.

Jiang Zemin

/ ˈdʒjæŋ ʒeɪˈmɪn /

noun

1. born 1926, Chinese Communist politician: president (1993–2003)

Example Sentences

He later cultivated a close relationship with Jiang Zemin, a former schoolmate from Shanghai who rose to become China’s president and who died in 2022.

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Then, during the Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin eras, the idea took hold that, if you gave people a better living, they'd have less motivation to act corruptly.

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Photographs of Li were shared on Weibo by Xinhua news agency, including those of him with Xi, Hu and former leader Jiang Zemin.

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The song went viral around the death of former President Jiang Zemin in November last year before being censored.

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Absent this year will be Jiang Zemin, a former party chief who influenced Chinese politics until his death last year.

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