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13 unusual facts about Jiang Zemin


Allen Broussard

In 1987, he led a group of 72 lawyers and city officials on a 3-week long trip to China meeting the Mayor of Shanghai, Jiang Zemin.

China UnionPay

However, the concept of a unified Chinese bank card network dates back to 1993, with the formation of the "Golden Card Project" advocated by then-Chinese president Jiang Zemin.

China United Airlines

In 2000, China United Airlines spent USD$120 million to buy a Boeing 767-300ER as Jiang Zemin's private jet.

Chinese submarine 361

"The officers and sailors of 361 remembered their sacred duty entrusted to them by the Party and the People. They died on duty, sacrificed themselves for the country, and they are great losses to the People’s Navy." - Chairman Jiang Zemin, Central Military Commission in a condolence message to families of the dead, 2 May 2003.

Diplomatic Protection Squad

2000 - Prime Minister Helen Clark criticised the DPS handling of a state visit by Chinese President Jiang Zemin the previous year - the DPS sought to minimise the president's exposure to protesters and save the government any embarrassment, which Clark rebuked by saying it was not in the spirit of democracy.

Đỗ Mười

On 27 June, following Đỗ Mười's election as General Secretary, Jiang Zemin, the Chinese Party's (CPC) General Secretary, used the occasion to congratulate Đỗ Mười and stated that he hoped that relations between China and Vietnam would be normalized, on a state-to-state and a party-to-party basis.

Kobi Alexander

In 2006, Comverse was named one of Institutional Investor: America's Most Shareholder-Friendly Companies". "As CEO of Comverse, Alexander was sought out by the likes of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who slipped away from official meetings in 2000 and steered his motorcade through a pot-holed section of Tel Aviv to meet with him.

Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression

Jiang Zemin visited the large-scale exhibition named Great Victory on 30 August 2005.

Tang Baiqiao

In essence, Tiananmen Square allowed CCP leaders such as Jiang Zemin to consolidate their power over the Party, the government, and the military.

The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin

In 2005 a biography of Chinese President Jiang Zemin (The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin) by Robert Lawrence Kuhn was published simultaneously in English and Chinese, generating attention and controversy.

Wu Wenjun

Along with Yuan Longping, he was awarded the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award by President Jiang Zemin in 2000, when this highest scientific and technological prize in China began to be awarded.

Zou Lunlun

She has performed at many concert halls and opera houses around the world, including Vienna, Frankfurt, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sydney, and has performed for China's President Jiang Zemin and Australian Prime Minister John Howard.

In 1999, Lunlun performed for Jiang Zemin during his visit to Sydney and in 2004 for the Chief Executive of Macau, Edmund Ho.


Covert listening device

In 2001, the government of the People's Republic of China announced that it had discovered twenty-seven bugs in a Boeing 767 purchased as an official aircraft for President Jiang Zemin.

Daniel Seaman

Seaman was directly responsible for coordinating the press coverage of several heads of states visits to Israel including US President Bill Clinton, British Prime Minister (PM) Tony Blair, Canadian PM Jean Chrétien, Australian PM John Howard, Jordan's King Hussein and Chinese Chairman Jiang Zemin.

Zhu Rongji

With support from Jiang Zemin and Li Peng, then president and premier respectively, Zhu enacted tough macroeconomic control measures.