Jiang Zemin's Administration (mar 14, 1993 – may 26, 2003)
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Jiang Zemin joined the CCP in 1946 and later served as the general secretary. He rose to power in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Square killings. He was a compromise choice who combined a commitment to continued free-market economic reforms with a determination to preserve the CCP’s monopoly on political power. He had success avoiding turmoil and instability and claimed to be a corruption fighter even though some of his closest allies were involved in corrupt deals. He reduced the state’s ownership and control of some of China’s 300,000 industries, beginning with a privatization plan. In 1997 he participated in the first U.S.-China summit in almost a decade, and at a follow-up meeting in 1998 he openly discussed his human rights record. In 2002 Jiang resigned as general secretary of the CCP and the following year stepped down as president after serving the maximum two five-year terms.
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https://www.cnn.com/2013/01/17/world/asia/jiang-zemin-fast-facts/index.html
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jiang-Zemin
http://factsanddetails.com/china/cat2/sub7/item76.html
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